song order problems

[jcrawford777]

I am having problems when downloading music files from computer to SD card. Songs are in order on computer, but after transfer to SD they are all whacked out. For instance, 01-xxx, 10-xxx, 02-xxx, 20-xxx etc. Is there any way to fix this besides going into the browse files and renaming the song title? I have quite a large song file which I want to keep in order. I'm using Windows Media Player to transfer.

 

[Arelunde]

Consider just using drag and drop to transfer your files. Plug in the X on its USB cord (make sure the SD card is visible to the computer), open the X as though it were a flash drive. Find your X's music file folder and open it. (You might want to delete the existing music files, OR put them into a separate folder within the folder, OR go through later and delete what you don't want)

Meanwhile, open your music file folder on your computer. Highlight what you want to transfer and drag/drop into the X's open music file.

Very simple. Should keep them in at least alphabetical order.

 

[roberte1342]

I've been having trouble with this from day 1, and in the leaked 2.2 (leak 1). What I have found is the music player is not entirely compatible with the ID3 meta data in AAC (m4a) files. If they are encoded with itunes, track order and album art are messed up. However, if you reencode the album to mp3 through itunes then it works but you are left with an inferior quality. I have not yet tried it but I've heard others having success with windows media player.

I have not yet tried leak 2 due to the official release being 'any day now'

 

[efn77mx]

When I first got my X, I was having issues syncing my iTunes music to the phone, regardless of HOW I did the transfer. Filenames, artists, albums....all seemed out of whack. I came to discover that the OS is only reading the mp3 tag (I think that's what it's called) of each file. When I import a cd into itunes, itunes usually does a pretty good job with the mp3 tags of all the files. If I right-click a song file and choose "properties" that's where the tag info can be viewed and edited.

As an example, I'll use the song "Free as a bird" by the Beatles. The file exists in 2 different folders on my hard drive. In one folder, it is labeled 17. Beatles - Free as a bird.mp3 (I have numerous folders that I burn to cd's for use in my car, and my car deck doesn't care about the tag info...it just reads the file names). The second copy is 01 - Free As A Bird.mp3 (located within the folder from the ripped "Anthology" albums. If I drag/drop track 17 to my phone, when I browse my music contents, it will show up as track 1 under the album "Anthology Disc 1" Because if I right-click track 17 and look at the tag info, it will be labeled Track #1 / Artist: The Beatles / Album: Anthology Disc 1

That's why your tracks seem out of order. As tedious as this will be...you will have to right-click EVERY file you want to put on your phone, and change its tag info so that it will appear the way you want it to.

I hope some of this made sense...I tried to be as clear as possible. When I first transferred my itunes music to my new phone, several albums were showing up as "unknown album" or artist. Once I changed the properties of the affected folder, everything showed up exactly as it should. I hope this helps.

 

[jcrawford777]

Yeah, I think it's the tagging issue that I'm having issues with. I use WinAmp for a lot of my music because I prefer to download in Lossless. Windows Lossless is OK but WinAmp is better, FLAC format seems to handle the files better.
Secondly, the files I want to download are from an audio Bible so everything needs to be in order so that each chapter comes directly after the next. I guess I will have to do the three days of painstaking re-tagging. Thanks, y'all.