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[paul]

I'm using 7.2.280 version of MJ. I have a AWIA MP3 player that needs to be spoon fed the
track number or it will read the order wrong... order ie 1,10,11,2,20,21 etc...

Was wondering if I could have MJ padd the track number in the ID Tags of the MP3 file
so that my AWIA player will play the order correctly ...
Is this something perhaps that the new 8.0 version can do?
THanks much
Paul

[Matt]

At least in ID3v1.1 tags, there's no way to "pad" the track number because it's just a one-byte number. (0 to 255)

Does the file naming on the CD make any difference?

Take care.

-Matt

[ZRocker]

In Id3v1 tags, the track number is stored in 1-byte BINARY field...thus, there is now way to 'pad' the value with zeros (because it's binary-based...not Ascii character-based).

[KingSparta]

paul

try renaming the mp3's like

01 - Artist - Songname.mp3
02 - Artist - Songname.mp3
03 - Artist - Songname.mp3
04 - Artist - Songname.mp3

etc... and see what happens

I have A Awia and a sony car mp3 players But never really cared what order they played, as long as they played.

but i do think it is by order of the file name

[paul]

Thanks you guys for your reply... After checking it is infact NOT the ID Tags as you guys pointed out (with 1-255)
Its the actual *SONG NAME* that needs to have prepended number. YUCK...
OK so a song order like   001 American Pie   002 War Dogs   003 Xena Sings...  would read correctly.
I assume I would need to do this manually by renaming all the files (230|PLS|)??
Thanks
Paul

[KingSparta]

paul

>>I assume I would need to do this manually by renaming all the files (230|PLS|)??
only 230|PLS| I have 131,000|PLS|

at any rate you can do this automaticly if you wish using MJ.

select all files
right click
select properties
select tools
select rename files from properties
UNCHECK [_] DIRECTORIES
CHECK

• FILENAME
  type this in the format \ rule box (you can change the rules)
  
  TRACK# - ARTIST - NAME
  or maybe
  TRACK# - NAME
  
  then select ok an mj will rename them all for you.

[nila]

Or you could upgrade to v8 which seems like a MUCH easier solution to me.

[KingSparta]

Nila

not sure how that will help his AWIA mp3 player, but it would be nice if everyone would upgrade to version 8

it is better than 7.2.28

[DeathRider]

I have an Aiwa CD player in my truck and I was able to get the songs in order. It is a little drwan out and done outside of MJ.  I creat a folder in the desktop screen, I copy and paste the songs into the folder, I then arrange the songs in the order I want and then burn the folder to CD. I test the CD and then delet the folder and I am done. This is usualy an all day thing for me because I do my burns and rewrites at one time and not some one day and others another day. I got 20 CD's in my truck with on average of 140 High Quality bit rate mp3's per disk. Each folder is seen by the player as an album so I can jump albums as I like, also the more MP3's you cram onto a CD will cause longer read time for the player for it to read the layout.