Long story short: Just got a Clip Zip, great player. Added audio books, all was peachy until it hit a book with 400 odd files. All tags were good, but the play order was screwed. 10, 20, 30…90. then 100, 110, 120. Anyway, suffice it to say that it was very wrong. I read a thousand posts about tag versions, firmware updates, leading zeroes, the absence of slashes (or presence of them) and just about every other possibility, combination and workaround. I decided to do some experimenting and I found what was causing MY problem. It may or may not apply to other play order problems, but I felt it was worth posting regardless.
I was using TITLE xxx/yyy AND TRACK xxx/yyy
The problem disappeared by simply dropping the TRACK yyy
eg.
Title: No Time For Goodbye 001/489
Track: 001/489
this fails.
but…
Title: No Time For Goodbye 001/489
Track: 1
works
Just to see if it was the /yyy and not the leading zeroes in the track number, I tried…
Title: No Time For Goodbye 001/489
Track: 001
works just fine.
There are so many other possible combinations that it would take me more time than I am prepared to spend, but suffice it to say that the combination off TITLE xxx/yyy AND TRACK xxx/yyy screws with play order big time.
What I don’t get is why this is all so hard? Never once did I see a reply from Sandisk themselves saying, 'this is how it works, and these are the fields that get priority, and blah blah" I looked pretty hard for a definitive answer, but never found one. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough.
Anyway, my work is done here, for now, and I hope this post can resolve some other people’s play order issues.
If this particular ‘fix’ has been covered before, I apologise for duplicating it.
