On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:12:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Thanks. I'll give it a try and report back any results. I guess I'm >> only moderately confident as I'm not clear how the group of MP3 files >> keeps the original track order. Are those written into the MP3 file by >> the converter? Where does it get the info if I've removed the track >> numbers from the file names. Is it already in the FLAC files? > > It doesn't, track order is a feature of a CD, not a bunch of mp3s. If you > want to keep the files in track order, leave the numbers there, that's > what they're for. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Then there's something going on elsewhere. Using soundconverter I converted a few CDs removing the track numbers from the names. I sent the CD over to a Windows box and played them using iTunes. I note that the tracks are displayed in the original order. It's possible, I suppose, that since the artist and title directory names are in place that iTunes looked up the track order from the CD database, but I assumed it was actually embedded in the file by soundconverter. soundfile-info cannot read MP3 file so I don't know what too would tell me that the data is in the file or not. I'll do the same experiment with your renaming and see what happens. thanks, Mark
