Sorting M4A files - odd behaviour?

popsimax · 03-29-2012, 19:18

Been pretty impressed with the i10 so far - sound seems good, no problems with playing flacs etc. - but I have found one irritating issue with M4A files. As far as I understand, M4As are basically AAC files, which are not supported by the i10. But the tracks all play fine for me; the issue is that it is reading the files' metadata in a really odd way.

It takes the track name and sorts them alphabetically, discarding the track number information... except for a single album (Ys by Joanna Newsom, if you are interested...). Looking at the metadata in foobar2000 I can see no difference between M4A albums that don't get ordered correctly and Ys, except that they were encoded (into the same codec) by different version of iTunes and are different bit rates. I would understand if it totally failed to read M4A metadata, but this seems to not be the case.

Anyone else replicating this problem? Any ideas?

Androsone · 03-31-2012, 09:29

odd, mine plays them in order. Try a program like mp3tag to check the tags

cprelude · 08-14-2012, 03:43

Hi there...Yes, getting exactly the same problem with m4a's. Trying to investigate at the moment. No answers as yet.

popsimax · 08-28-2012, 19:51

I never solved this... couldn't find anything wrong with the tags, updating them made no difference. I just play things through the file browser when I need to. Still fails with 1.07.

03-29-2012, 19:18	#1
popsimax Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 6	Sorting M4A files - odd behaviour? Been pretty impressed with the i10 so far - sound seems good, no problems with playing flacs etc. - but I have found one irritating issue with M4A files. As far as I understand, M4As are basically AAC files, which are not supported by the i10. But the tracks all play fine for me; the issue is that it is reading the files' metadata in a really odd way. It takes the track name and sorts them alphabetically, discarding the track number information... except for a single album (Ys by Joanna Newsom, if you are interested...). Looking at the metadata in foobar2000 I can see no difference between M4A albums that don't get ordered correctly and Ys, except that they were encoded (into the same codec) by different version of iTunes and are different bit rates. I would understand if it totally failed to read M4A metadata, but this seems to not be the case. Anyone else replicating this problem? Any ideas?

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03-31-2012, 09:29	#2
Androsone Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: California Posts: 9	odd, mine plays them in order. Try a program like mp3tag to check the tags

08-14-2012, 03:43	#3
cprelude Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 9	Hi there...Yes, getting exactly the same problem with m4a's. Trying to investigate at the moment. No answers as yet.

08-28-2012, 19:51	#4
popsimax Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 6	I never solved this... couldn't find anything wrong with the tags, updating them made no difference. I just play things through the file browser when I need to. Still fails with 1.07.