Clip Sport Songs Order & Album Mix-ups

And here’s the software that can be run as against the songs on you Sport, to put it in alphabetical order (I just found it again):  FatSorter.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Clip-Sport/GUIDE-How-to-organize-your-2000-song-library/m-p/330051

Please allow me to make a small addition to Miikerman’s post.

FatSorter has an installer that requires admin rights. For people that would like to update the files on the SanDisk Clip Sport on a system on which they do not have admin rights (such as for instance at work): Do an internet search on FAT sorting and you’ll find many alternative tools.

The process is rather simple if I understand it correctly: all files are moved to a temporary folder and replaced in alphabetical order. Sounds like something that you could implement yourself in your favourite programming language … [warning: could be that I’m overlooking some subtleties here :O]

I went for a ready-made bat file:
http://www.murraymoffatt.com/sortfolder.zip
Unzip and you’re ready to go without administrator rights. It is a sufficiently easy-to-use tool that is called from the command prompt and takes about half-a-minute to sort the entire SanDisk Clip Sport 4GB memory. Open the bat file in a text editor to view the instructions.

Thanks for the info.!  But, sad that it needs to be done in the first place . . . .

As the solution is a hack, to get past limiation in the design and software bugs, I hope some this will be address by SanDisk in the next / future firmware …

Does anyone think any of the issues raised here are now addressed by v1.22?

Umm, see the Release Notes, and otherwise check it out . . . .   :wink:

Went to mp3 tag site and before download got a warning from McAfee saying site was dangerous.

Couldn’t get freeware without downloading garbage that comes with freeware.

@scarfitup wrote:

Went to mp3 tag site and before download got a warning from McAfee saying site was dangerous.

Couldn’t get freeware without downloading garbage that comes with freeware.

You’re clicking on the wrong link then. Most likely an ad,

how did you get the program?

the site has triggered warnings from my brousing software plus a lot of junk with download you can’t eliminate.

MP3Tag official site:

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

And the correct download page:

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html

Click on the mp3tagv266setup.exe link.

I bought this Clip Sport as a gift for my father.

I got a huge job done in tagging an big audio book (16 cd’s - 175 tracks)

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That Sansa player is a real joke.

Running v1.22

Even if I make sure that every single tag (disk/track/title) are in order.  On the Clip the ordering is almost totally random ; they show like this :

001

014

024

036

047

058

067

002

015

025

And there is also a length restriction of the db that break the album title so it only see 3 albums instead of 16.

The album issu I understand, but the ordering is a real shame.  

I just look at “solution” that other user found.  Concidering that have issue with all my taging I guess it really order by the firs 2 caracter hahaha

Did I said that ITS A SHAME ?

Can I get a refound for this garbage ?

I would suggest removing “Piste” form the beginning of the Title, drop the “CD01-01”  and simply having the tracks appear like this:

001 - Debutante

145 - Vocabulare

and so on.

The sport does not recognize album names over 30 characters. I renamed the album with by selecting all the tracks on the album, right clicking, choose properties, and change the album name to something shorter - it now plays fine. I also updated firmware to 1.22

I’m having a ploblem with my sandisk clip sport the album mix-up and the time clock on the system will you help me or release another firmware update with the version 1.23.

i cant contact sandisk so please e-mail me on

micky.mouse_4@hotmail.com

for help on my MP3 player if the Firmware update is not possible.

thanks.

To get assistance, best that you specifically outline, in detail, the issue here, so that others may respond to you.

I am considering purchasing a Sandisk Sansa Sport 8gb. However, whether you’re listening to a Paganini concerto or a Beatles album, song order is highly significant, and almost never, if ever, is supposed to go alphabetically. Unless of course, you’re on crack or act like it. So, I have to know beforehand whether the issue with playlist song order was fixed for these devices. Would someone here be so kind as to inform me about the status of the song order problem? Has there been a fix?

Thanks in advance!

I am sure a few SanDisk “guru” level forum members will provide better answers for your concerns.

First, make sure you install the latest FirmWare 1.28.

      http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Clip-Sport/Clip-Sport-FW-1-28-4K-database-Beta/td-p/342560

For starters, use Win Explorer to copy one specific album of files into one specific subfolder inside the MUSIC folder on your Clip Sport (or the micro SD card)

MP3 Tag Method:

  1. Use mp3tag freeware software here:     http://download.mp3tag.de/mp3tagv272setup.exe

      AND, use tag type:  ID3v2 ISO-8859-1 (set under Tools -> Options)

  1. Use album and song titles that are 12 characters or less (?) that clearly define the identity of the music files

  2. Use 2 digit (3 if necessary) prefixes added to the song titles (include leading zeroes, 01-  etc)

     I think the hyphen helps too.

  1. Try a small test sample of files to learn what works best for you.

PLAYLIST Method:

An alternate approach is to create a unique playlist file (.m3u) for each subfolder.

The same software (mp3tag) can be used to create an ordered playlist for each sub-folder under the MUSIC folder.

Best Wishes !!!

I am sure a few SanDisk “guru” level forum members will provide better answers for your concerns.

First, make sure you install the latest FirmWare 1.28.

      http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Clip-Sport/Clip-Sport-FW-1-28-4K-database-Beta/td-p/342560

For starters, use Win Explorer to copy one specific album of files into one specific subfolder inside the MUSIC folder on your Clip Sport (or the micro SD card)

MP3 Tag Method:

  1. Use mp3tag freeware software here:     http://download.mp3tag.de/mp3tagv272setup.exe

      AND, use tag type:  ID3v2 ISO-8859-1 (set under Tools -> Options)

  1. Use album and song titles that are 12 characters or less (?) that clearly define the identity of the music files

  2. Use 2 digit prefixes added to the song titles (include leading zeroes, 01 02  etc)

    (mp3tag software has some handy numbering commands)

  1. Try a small test sample of files to learn what works best for you.

PLAYLIST Method:

An alternate approach is to create a unique playlist file (.m3u) for each subfolder.

The same software (mp3tag) can be used to create an ordered playlist for each sub-folder under the MUSIC folder.

Best Wishes !!!

The track order was fixed long ago as far as those albums that have track numbers which contain leading zeros as needed, ie. 01, 02, …10, 11 , etc. 

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