SD card - tracklistings

[leehal]

Has anyone managed to find a fix to this problem?

When I access the music on my SD card the tracks play in alphabetical order.

[digigriffin]

So that would be down to how you name them then?

I just put folders and mp3 from itunes straight on the SD card and they are listed in the correct order.

I think I tunes prefixes the track names with "01-", "02-", "03-" so that may be why they list correctly.

[Hippogriff]

Not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, but MP3s have tags called ID3 that carry metadata about the Track. Things like Artist, Album, Year, Genre and Track Number. I would hope that the MMI reads these tags on the MP3 files.

In ID3 version 1, and 1.1, this was very simple - as there is 128 bytes at the end of an MP3 file and each field has a fixed length. If you want to put the Track Number information in your MP3 file it goes into the last two bytes of the Comment field, which is 30 bytes long; last byte actually - there is a null separator.

In ID3 version 2, all this became more complicated... however, you'd more than likely always use a tool to manipulate these tags anyway. Then you can set the Track Number from any asset in your MP3 file... maybe you have named the Tracks like "<##>, <name>.mp3" or "<name> (<##>).mp3", it shouldn't really matter as you can tag it properly using a tool. There's lots around - Google something like "mp3 tagger" or "id3 tagging" I'd guess.

Then, no matter what format you have your MP3 file names in, you know that the Track Number field is filled in via the ID3 tag - then you'd hope the MMI reads those and sorts the tracks in number order rather than alphabetical.

I'll get my car this coming Wednesday, so I have all this to look forward to.

[nickhx]

Hi,

I find the easiest way is to import the tracks into iTunes and then right click the tracks, select get info and then change the track numbers by hand. I then copy the tracks back to my SD card and my Audi B8 concert stereo then picks up the correct order fine.

Cheers

[leehal]

Seems to be working OK now that I am copying files from my iTunes folder, only tried 1 album so far though!

[leehal]

Can anyone help me out with regards to best type of card formatting and also does the player read wma & mp3's?

I have a strange problem.

Tried a brand new Transcend card tonight, added tracks for an album from my iTunes folder (MP3's) and inserted the card. The tracklistings appeared, skipped through them saying they were damaged and then proceeded to another set of the same track listings and played them. Once a track had played they remained in the correct sequence but the number that was next to the name disappeared. To play the songs again I have to scroll through the 'damaged' tracks which still appear in the folder but are grey rather than orange.