Tags with numbers not sorted in the right order

[squeeze_user]

I have a couple of audio books that have >22 cd's. So I came up with a naming schema which is:
Cd##$$ - Book Name , where ## is number of cd (01 - 22) and $$ is track number (01-99)

All of my devices (computer, mp3 players) sort the files in the right order, e.g:
Cd0101 - Name.mp3
Cd0102 - Name.mp3
Cd0103 - Name.mp3
Cd0201 - Name.mp3
Cd0202 - Name.mp3
Cd0203 - Name.mp3

BUT Squeeze Center seems to have it's own ordering logic. It displays:
Cd0101 - Name.mp3
Cd0201 - Name.mp3
Cd0102 - Name.mp3
Cd0202 - Name.mp3
Cd0103 - Name.mp3
Cd0203 - Name.mp3

The problem is that I can't just do a play all. Is that a "feature" of the squeeze center or is there a secret display option to order it in the right way?

Any help would be appreciated.

(I'm using SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2.1 - on Debian - EN - utf8)

[snarlydwarf]

You need to set the DISCNUMBER tag, which can also be done as TPOS (Part of Set) for id3 tags.

[MeSue]

I think as an alternative to the DISCNUMBER tag, you could tag the track numbers as 001-whatever for the entire audio book, as long as the files are all in one folder.

Or you could browse by Music Folder instead of Music Library.

[squeeze_user]

snarlydwarf -
thanks for the fast reply.

Sorry I should have said that the name (Cd##$$ - Book Name) is the title tag.

All of my devices (computer, mp3 players) display the files in the right order, e.g:
Cd0101 - Name
Cd0102 - Name
Cd0103 - Name
Cd0201 - Name
Cd0202 - Name
Cd0203 - Name

BUT Squeeze Center seems to have it's own ordering logic. It displays:
Cd0101 - Name
Cd0201 - Name
Cd0102 - Name
Cd0202 - Name
Cd0103 - Name
Cd0203 - Name

So setting the DISCNUMBER tag seems to be a work around, because other mp3 devices sort the files just fine without the need of it.

(not an easy workaround either because a lot of nice free mp3 taggers e.g. Media Tagger, mp3tag, mp3tagtool are not supporting the tag or are hard to setup for it).

[snarlydwarf]

BUT Squeeze Center seems to have it's own ordering logic. It displays:
Cd0101 - Name
Cd0201 - Name
Cd0102 - Name
Cd0202 - Name
Cd0103 - Name
Cd0203 - Name

So setting the DISCNUMBER tag seems to be a work around, because other mp3 devices sort the files just fine without the need of it.

SC by default sorts albums by discnumber and track number, NOT title.

The only exception is when you use Browse Music Folder, which is sorted by filename.


(not an easy workaround either because a lot of nice free mp3 taggers e.g. Media Tagger, mp3tag, mp3tagtool are not supporting the tag or are hard to setup for it).

mp3tag works fine with TPOS, never used the others, but its hardly an uncommon tag.

[squeeze_user]

snarlydwarf -
now thinking about it a little bit more, it makes sense :)

But it would be nice if I could tell it to sort by title instead of discnumber and track number.

Because I need to make the title unique anyway (and include disk and track information in it) in order to work with other mp3 devices (portable players) that do not use discnumber and track number to sort the files (all the portable mp3 players I have).