maybe a strange mp3 question

[Ar-Pharazon]

All CD's I buy nowadays I rip right away with Windows Media Player.

The individual songs go in a folder with the track # in the file name.

But, when I copy an album's folder to my Jeep radio's HDD, it leaves off the track number and puts the songs in alphabetical order within the given album's folder.

Is there a quicker and/or easier way to fix this other than under Description/Title under the Advanced Summary tab under Properties?


Edit: Even though the above steps work so the radio sees the track #'s, if I have 2 albums from the same group on the HDD, it puts all the songs together under the artist view.

 

[STR]

I assume by "Advanced Summary tab" you mean the ID3 metadata tags. ID3 tags are part of the MP3 spec. If the Jeep is ignoring the filename in lieu of the ID3 title, there's no other way. There's lots of programs out there, including the more recent WMP builds, that make it fairly trivial to batch edit the ID3's.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I use either WMP11 or 12, but I'm not sure how to use it in this way.

The Summary tab (advanced mode) is under Properties for each individual song.

This route is a little redundant, but works.

I only want to make these changes to copies of album folders I intend to move to the Jeep.

 

[trekkiedane]

I have had similar problems with two of my 'portable mp3 players'; they could play songs listed by anything but track number on the disc

No really: genre worked, date worked, band name worked, size worked -everything but track listing

Eventually I gave up and also put the playlist file (.m3u) onto the devices -forced the portable devices to play the tracks in the order I had put them in!

 

[Australis]

You may have to put in band name - album name - song # in the ID3 tag. I think I've had to do something like that in the past.

 

[trekkiedane]

You may have to put in band name - album name - song # in the ID3 tag. I think I've had to do something like that in the past.

That has to be done for every single track - my suggestion of making a playlist file elsewhere (on another device; your computer) and then merely moving it (along with the audio files) to the portable is (a tiny) bit simpler.

 

[Australis]

Mmm, no, he just needs to do it for the two albums, if he wants. Mind you, I too think the playlist file is best - VLC allows you to create them easily, and I've only just started using them. The nest issue then is does the Jeep player recognise m3u files.

 

[trekkiedane]

Mmm, no, he just needs to do it for the two albums, if he wants.

Right, but every single track on those two albums

Mind you, I too think the playlist file is best - VLC allows you to create them easily, and I've only just started using them.

I'm actually quite impressed with VLC, but I still prefer Winamp (when plalying music) -guess it's to do with the 'library', I really like how that works.

The nest issue then is does the Jeep player recognise m3u files.

Yeah, could be a problem there...

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Media monkey is a free program that can batch edit id3tags for you. You can use it to change filenames automatically based on online databases. For me I changed all my mp3 filenames to #band #song #album #track.

 

[STR]

I use either WMP11 or 12, but I'm not sure how to use it in this way.

The Summary tab (advanced mode) is under Properties for each individual song.

This route is a little redundant, but works.

I only want to make these changes to copies of album folders I intend to move to the Jeep.

Go into list view, click on the song title, then click again. Basically, a slow double click. It will allow you to edit the name. You can also ctrl+click or shift+click to batch rename a whole album. Or right click and select edit.''

I would also recommend Media Monkey.