On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Track number can be stored in the ID3 tag of MP3 files (as well as total number of tracks on the album, and disc number for sets).
