Heeeelp: MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

Hi all,

Many moons ago, I imported around 1200 Mp3s via Nokia PCSuite & WinMedia player onto the MicroSD card on my old Nokia 6124.

On that phone all the albums appeared with the songs in the correct album order.

However....when I inserted the same SD card into my n900, all my songs appear alphabeticised in media player......albeit in the correct album folder.....instead of in the intended album order .....?!?!?

Same happened when I tried copying same tracks onto the n900's internal HDD.

I don't use playlists much. Prefer listening in Album order. Being a bit new to all this I assumed :o all my tracks were all tagged ??!?

What have I done wrong ??? :confused:

Any help gratefully received.....

Regards,
Sam

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

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Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

You've done nothing wrong, submit a bug against the media player app.

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

Well could be that your songs don't have tags about albums. Can you list the music by genre or performer?

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

That's exactly what I thought initially, but I think they are tagged since my songs can be listed by Genre or performer, & they listed correctly on my old phone (N6124).

I used PC Suite for many of the albums - from original CDs too - so would've thought the tagging was done automatically ?

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

:eek: Really ?!! But surely there'd be Thousands of others reporting the same issue.....have you seen the same thing too ?

If I'm not the only one, I'll gladly submit a bug but I was convinced it was something daft that I'd done !

Has anyone else experienced this problem ?

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

I'm assuming your music is in the "Audio clips" folder.

Open up the terminal, try this, and let us know what the output is:

You'll need to replace "<path-to-song>" with an actual song. Holler if you need help figuring that out.

-jkq

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

Well I think you've identified the issue....

Most of my music is still on the SD card in the Music folder....not sure how I browse to that ?

However, just to test, I've copied some tracks into the "Audio Clips" folder on the n900 partition, and run the command as follows below:

All the tracks appear to show as Track 0.....even though the other metadata has been carried across correctly.

How can I correct this ?

Re: Simple MP3 alpha order issue ?
 

I believe it is in "/media/mmc1", but I'm not completely sure, as I don't have a card in mine.

Hmm, I don't know if you can fix that on the N900 itself. Probably you'd have to fix the tags with some tagging program on your computer. :eek: :mad:

Maybe another forum member has some ideas?

-jkq