iRiver playback order

[hmoffatt]

On my H140, tracks within an album seem to play back in alphabetical order, which isn't very nice. The iRiver database doesn't include a track number.

When I sync the files with the pattern
\<Genre>\<Album>\<Track#>

Then 10 tracks play as 08, 06, 04, 02, 09, 07, 05, 03, 01, 10.

TDT, a iRiver database creation tool, seems to produce a database that makes the H140 play the same album in the correct order.

Weird. I'll try to work out why. It doesn't seem to have included the track number in the title or anything like that.

Hamish

[hmoffatt]

On my H140, tracks within an album seem to play back in alphabetical order, which isn't very nice. The iRiver database doesn't include a track number.

A bit more investigation. It looks like the iRiver plays based on alphabetical order of the filenames in the directory. When I prepend the track number, the order comes out correct if I create the database with iFish.

The database from MM seems to still make for a random order. More investigation required to figure this one out.

Hamish

[hmoffatt]

The database from MM seems to still make for a random order. More investigation required to figure this one out.

Looking at the raw database, it seems that the tracks are in some sort of random order. The order I saw in the database is the same as how the H140 plays the tracks.


Hamish

[Guest]

You were right, tracks weren't properly sorted in the database file. You can download the latest fixed version from http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/d_iRiverH.dll

Jiri

[lourides]

I have noticed the same problem with my H320. The albums don't playback in the right order. Have you figured out a way to do it?

[rusty]

Lourides,

Can you confirm that you're testing with beta 3? (and not the updated .dll that is mentioned earlier in this thread--that .dll is now out-of-date).

-Rusty

[lourides]

sorry, i'm not testing. didn't relized this thread was for the beta testing. I have the regular version.