Re: ordering of album songs?

[Jason Holtzapple]

You'll want to either add track numbers to your tags, or change
the server setting 'sort by file name' to 'sort by file name'
instead of 'sort by song information.'

--Jason

--- Jan Vilhuber <janjunk (AT) vilhuber (DOT) net> wrote:
> Is it just me, or are albums-songs sorted alphabetically by title
> (inside an album) rather than by the 'real' order from the album?
>
> All my files are even named '<num>-<title>.<format>' for this purpose,
> yet slimserver sees them as sorted by title only.
>
> Is there a setting for this I missed? Or maybe I need to make sure they
> are also tagged with the track number or something? Otherwise, I'd say
> it's a bug.. One way to fix it is to store the titles as '<num>-<title>'
> internally for sorting purposes...

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[Jan Vilhuber]

On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 13:28, Jason Holtzapple wrote:
> You'll want to either add track numbers to your tags, or change
> the server setting 'sort by file name' to 'sort by file name'
> instead of 'sort by song information.'
>

As far as I can tell, it was/is already set to "sort by file name".

Is there a handy script someone has already written to set the tracknum
tag in an ogg file? Otherwise I guess I need to write one..

jan


> --Jason
>
> --- Jan Vilhuber <janjunk (AT) vilhuber (DOT) net> wrote:
> > Is it just me, or are albums-songs sorted alphabetically by title
> > (inside an album) rather than by the 'real' order from the album?
> >
> > All my files are even named '<num>-<title>.<format>' for this purpose,
> > yet slimserver sees them as sorted by title only.
> >
> > Is there a setting for this I missed? Or maybe I need to make sure they
> > are also tagged with the track number or something? Otherwise, I'd say
> > it's a bug.. One way to fix it is to store the titles as '<num>-<title>'
> > internally for sorting purposes...
>
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