Track Order Haywire

[miklorsmith]

I recently cut my .cue + .flac files into individual tracks. They're tagged correctly, i.e. they show track numbers correctly in Foobar and SBS. In fact, if I search by "Artist" everything works as expected.

However, I have multiple external drives and frequently search by "Music Folder". When I do this, the songs enter the left-hand search screen in alphabetical order. I've gone through all the "Settings" functions which would seem possible but no dice.

I've also searched here but didn't see any other posts on this.

I'm SO CLOSE to having a problem-free installation! Thanks in advance.

Mike

[nolesrule]

Browsing by Music Folder uses folder and file names, not tags.

Your file names would need to start with (zero-padded) track numbers to display them in track order.

[miklorsmith]

Interesting, and silly. It barely makes sense to even have the folder search function then. Who would EVER choose to play songs in alphabetical order?

Thanks.

[brucegrr]

Interesting, and silly. It barely makes sense to even have the folder search function then. Who would EVER choose to play songs in alphabetical order?

Thanks.

I am a WHO who does the EVER

I don't use track numbers at all. I remove them from the tags. I almost always use random play so track numbers are of no value.

[snarlydwarf]

Interesting, and silly. It barely makes sense to even have the folder search function then. Who would EVER choose to play songs in alphabetical order?

It's the same order present, by default, on most operating systems 'browser' (ie "ls" on linux, Windows Explorer [or whatever the file manager is called], etc...)

Most rippers by default name files like '<track> <title>.<extension', which keeps that order when you look at it in a file manager.

I don't play tracks in alphabetical order, but I do play them in order of tracks, and sometimes it's easier to browse to the proper directory to find them than it is to find them some other way.

[miklorsmith]

Cool. I still think it would make more sense to have an option. This is a new reason I like .cue sheets better. Except SBS doesn't support them despite claims to the contrary.

[aubuti]

Cool. I still think it would make more sense to have an option.

Have what option? If you browse by Artist, or Album, or what have you, then tracks will be sorted by track number. Browse Music Folder (BMF) ignores the tags and uses the filenames, and is a refuge for those whose tags are no good, or who just like it that way. And as others have pointed out, if you name the files with the track number (including leading zeroes), then even BMF does it in order. If you plan to use BMF a lot then it would make sense to rename your files, which can be done easily with a decent tagging program like mp3tag.