Track Numbers FLAC / APE

pico · 02-18-2011, 22:19

Has anyone managed to get track numbers working properly in FLAC or APE files?

I've tried just about everything I can think of except my last crackpot idea of trying to tag the files with Korean numbers!

Album view will always list the tracks in alphabetical order.

The strangest thing is it appears that when using Artist view, it does list in track number order.

Anyones track numbers working in Album view? And if so how are they tagged?

4DThinker · 02-19-2011, 08:08

FLAC tags are the sticky part. The 1.29 update claimed to address them somewhat. I can't help as I don't have more than a couple of sample FLACS right now. Hard drive crashed and I have to recover my music files off the assorted media players I have.

pico · 02-21-2011, 06:13

I don't think its the tag parsing/format decoding issue specifically. I'd say its the Media Scanner and how it writes to the database for the Media Library; just ends up that indexing by Album goes alphabetical.

I haven't put any MP3 (or anything other than FLAC/APE) on my D3, but it will order by alphabetical track name in Album view using the media library. Rather than what I would expect, which is track number

You could get around it by tagging the track name with number at the beginning.

You should be able to easily tell using the Matrix Browser that the tracks are ordered alphabetically, comparing to your original CDs / etcs. It actually works quite nice with FW 1.29 in terms of smoothness

02-18-2011, 22:19	#1
pico Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 36	Track Numbers FLAC / APE Has anyone managed to get track numbers working properly in FLAC or APE files? I've tried just about everything I can think of except my last crackpot idea of trying to tag the files with Korean numbers! Album view will always list the tracks in alphabetical order. The strangest thing is it appears that when using Artist view, it does list in track number order. Anyones track numbers working in Album view? And if so how are they tagged?

02-21-2011, 06:13	#3
pico Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 36	I don't think its the tag parsing/format decoding issue specifically. I'd say its the Media Scanner and how it writes to the database for the Media Library; just ends up that indexing by Album goes alphabetical. I haven't put any MP3 (or anything other than FLAC/APE) on my D3, but it will order by alphabetical track name in Album view using the media library. Rather than what I would expect, which is track number You could get around it by tagging the track name with number at the beginning. You should be able to easily tell using the Matrix Browser that the tracks are ordered alphabetically, comparing to your original CDs / etcs. It actually works quite nice with FW 1.29 in terms of smoothness Last edited by pico; 02-21-2011 at 06:17..

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02-19-2011, 08:08	#2
4DThinker Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 588	FLAC tags are the sticky part. The 1.29 update claimed to address them somewhat. I can't help as I don't have more than a couple of sample FLACS right now. Hard drive crashed and I have to recover my music files off the assorted media players I have.