Any way to get albums to play songs in order?

Posted by: youngwerth1

Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 15/11/2001 20:01

other than play lists?

All of my songs start with 01_song1, 02_song2, etc but unfortunately the Rio Receiver ignores them. Any programs out there for automatically building playlists by albums?

Thanks,

al.

Posted by: tfabris

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 15/11/2001 20:06

I think that's a known bug.

I wonder if it would work if the MP3 tags had the track number in them? Hmmm....

In the meantime, if your files are really alphanumerically named, a simple DIR *.MP3 /B /O:N | SORT.EXE should theoretically create an ordered playlist.



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Tony Fabris
Posted by: Roger

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 16/11/2001 02:24

It's not a bug. It's by design. Nevertheless, it's wrong -- blame Dell, so we'll be fixing it in the next release.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 16/11/2001 07:30

Looking back at that message, I realize that I did not have the command redirected to a file. The whole command should read:

DIR *.MP3 /B /O:N | SORT.EXE > some_name.M3U

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Tony Fabris
Posted by: youngwerth1

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 16/11/2001 09:47

Thanks for the help. Another trick I learned last night was to modify the ID tags so they start with the track #. Kind of a pita to do by hand unless someone knows of a fairly flexible batch processing program for modifying ID tags.

Hmmm... looking on freshmeat.... only about 90 entries. I'll poke around tonight to see if I can find something easy that works or write a quick java program. I'll post back what I use.

Roger, it's great to see product developers out on the forum. When is the new release scheduled to ship? If you need any betas...

I used to do embedded linux development, I miss it. I developed one of the first "linux Internet appliances" back in '96. It was called TEAMInternet. I remember reading about the empeg car player on slashdot when it was first announced. Great product, glad to finally have one (in fact I'm ordering 3 more Rio Receivers today).

Best of luck in your new strategy to go after the OEM market.

Posted by: fvgestel

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 18/11/2001 11:53

look here for such a program

Frank van Gestel
Posted by: mardibloke

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 18/11/2001 14:55

As I said back in August Frank, a very handy util and one that I still use.

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Rod, UK Mk2 64gig Red S/N.341 Empeg 2xDigital Audio Receiver - one Wireless
Posted by: ShawnSteele

Re: Any way to get albums to play songs in order? - 10/12/2001 14:39

My mother & sister are both interested in the Receiver since they've seen mine, but a major stumbling block seems to be the tracks playing out of order.

I'm reluctant to press the matter or make it a Xmas gift because its been over a year since the client software's been updated and of the scary threads in about whether or not the Receiver will be replaced.

Rio really needs to get the software fixed.

- Shawn