I am very frustrated. My audiobook files do not play in sequence. I have checked my ID3 tags and am using version 2.3 (can’t tell if it’s the latin or not). Everything appears correct, but my files still do not play in order. I have tried using the ID3tag editior and still do not see any problems with the files. I converted the files from CD to MP3 with Windows Media Player. I have firmware version 1.17 installed. Can anybody tell me what I’m missing? I would really like my books to play in order!!
contact sandisk support. They will likely need some sample files to test with and if they can reproduce the issue they can report the it to the development team
Hi. What could be the probability that this will need a firmware update? 
I have this problem with some books, and the workaround I use is:
download Winamp and install
drag the book files to winamp
use the View File Info ( Alt-3 or right click and select) to display the information
the Album will be used by clip sport as the main sort, top level directory
the Title is, I believe, the sorting mechanism for the order in which the tracks play
this was a little different in the previous sandisk player I had. Experiment to be sure
good luck with it
In my experience the Clip Sport doesn’t sort numbers in a desired way. I therefore use the utility FATsort to sort the files in “natural order” and then the folder view in the player to access the content. The player itself sort the files in alphanumeric order which is kind of useless for many audiobooks. Some examples:
Natural order:
file3.mp3
file21.mp3
file123.mp3.
Alphanumeric order:
file123.mp3
file21.mp3
file3.mp3
The Clip Sport use the Alphanumeric order in database view. Personally, I can’t come up with any examples of when this is desired for Audiobooks (which often contains of many small numbered files) but don’t expect this to change. The Clip+ and Clip Zip use the natural order though.
I use Foobar2000 - convert/combine into one file (it reads in order of filename).
Then I use Audacity to divide the file into 2 hour mp3 files (just google how to).
That way, I enter the mp3 metadata when exporting files out of Audacity.
When I click file/export multiple, it gives me option to enter metadata for each file.
Then I get my audiobook to read it out correctly.
It’s time consuming but it works.
Hope this helps.
Pat
Manually renaming the tracks didn’t work for me. However, I removed the following files from the main (Clip Jam) folder: AUDIOBOOK. LIB, AUDIBLE.LIB, PODCAST.LIB, MUSIC.LIB, and version.sdk.
I also removed all music and audiobook files.
Then I removed the player from my computer. Connected it back - and reloaded the audio book.
All the LIB files and the SDK file repopulated and the book played in sequence.
