Rockbox & track playing order

[ozandy]

I have RB v5 bootloader and H300 Optimized:

I have just ripped some DJ mixes to mp3 using LAME/EAC and went to play them, and each CD album plays (and displays) the tracks in alphabetical order. Have I missed a setting that makes tracks play in the order on the CD?

many thanks

PS - I'm a very recent (yet another) ROCKBOX recruit - very impressive stuff. Thanks!

[hooligan333]

You'd have to either manually create a playlist with the tracks in order or rename the files with the track number at the beginning. E.g. instead of

A.mp3
B.mp3
C.mp3

do

01 C.mp3
02 B.mp3
03 A.mp3

[schwab002]

in EAC, you can change the options so if the ID3 tags have the track number, the file names can have the track # inserted in the file name...which would fix your playlist problem...well as long as you're not using the id3 database option.
i have mine set up to go like this Artist\album\track# track titled
%A\%C\%N %T

[digitalb0y]

I tag and rename all my tracks with mp3tag. It's fast, it's easy to use, and you can have your whole music collection looking uniform in very little time.

C

[needleboy]

i've recently redone my whole 16,000 strong collection with mp3tag.
the whole process took 27 minutes!
best tagging program, no question about it.

[ozandy]

Thanks people for your most useful replies. Appreciated! I spent a little time renaming manually, putting 01, 02,.. prefix after sorting each CDs content by date/time (this of course assumes that the ripping by EAC was at least done in order - most likely). However, the mp3tag app is most appealing. I'll get that!

Thankyou!

[Mike]

Rippers can be set to do this automatically, and other tag editors such as The Godfather also will do this.