Thanks for your comments. I renamed some FLAC track files and discovered the file names -do- seem to matter to SC. This is unexpected as I would have through presence of tags in a track file would always have priority over the actual name. IMHO the only time the name of the file should be considered for cataloging purposes is in absence of all other tag metadata.
Wonder if anyone else can confirm the SC policy on file names vs. tags in the cataloging process? If this is true, then it is interesting to consider that I recently changed the directory organization of my tracks. Before they were organized: .../<artist 1st char>/<artist 2nd char>/<artist> ~ <album> ~ <track> ~ <title>.flac Note under this hierarchy, tracks for many many albums were all lumped together in the same folder. But, compilation albums would play back in the correct order. My new organziation is: .../<album>_<artist>/<artist> ~ <album> ~ <track> ~ <title>.flac All the tracks in an albums are located in a single folder. It is albums organized like this that exhibit the playback order problem. If I change the track filenames to: .../<album>_<artist>/<track>.flac eg: /Cabbage Alley_Meters, The/01.flac /Cabbage Alley_Meters, The/02.flac /Cabbage Alley_Meters, The/03.flac etc. then the tracks play back in the correct tracknumber order. I'd like to stress that in all these cases the only thing that is changing is the organization of the FLAC track files and/or the file names. The tags within the files remain the same. To cast the problem into some specific questions: a) when an entire compilation album is selected for playback, no shuffle, what order will the tracks be played? The correct order should be TRACKNUMBER order. If a multi-disc set, then it should be DISCNUMBER.TRACKNUMBER order. b) How is tracknumber cataloged? Is it by track filename order in a folder or does the presence of TRACKNUMBER tag override? I have a case where TRACKNUMBER is present yet is being ignored over filename. That appears to indicate a bug. -- nico ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nico's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=672 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50029 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
