Disc playback order

MP3 players Sansa Clip | Clip+
1

When I drag and drop a two disc album onto the Clip+ it will play back D01:T01, D02:T01, D01:T02, D02:T02, D01:T03 etc. This is obviously incorrect, and while I know I can fix it by creating a playlist manually for the album, that is an absolute waste of my time. 

How does a finished piece of hardware have such sloppy firmware? This is something that should have been ironed out generations ago. My 6 year old iPod Shuffle (gasp) does this correctly…

BTW, mp3s were encoded with LAME3.98r and have tag types: id3v2|id3v1…

Also is there anything that can be done about album artists. I put one mix CD on my device and now my artists menu is flooded with 30 artists I don’t know or care to know about. 

2

Sounds like you need to edit those tags. The Sansa line of players are very picky about them; more so than your beloved Shuffle.

And the only way to avoid seeing all those album artists that you don’t care about is to  . . . yes, edit your ID3 tags.

3

My tags are correct. I have Artist, Album, Album Artist, Title, Track Number, Total Discs, Disc Number and Genre. There is only one logical way to group the files and that is: Album Artist || Artist -> Album -> Disc -> Track Number. Any other way would not make sense. As well this is something that could(should) be fixed in a matter of minutes.

As for the Album Artist issue of having many artists. Its a personal thing, and less of an issue.

I’ll just make playlists until a Sandisk employee takes the 10 minutes necessary to fix the problem. If need be I can Paypal him/her their 1/6th of an hourly wage to slip it in without disturbing the bosses… 

4

Tapeworm wrote:

Sounds like you need to edit those tags. The Sansa line of players are very picky about them; more so than your beloved Shuffle.

 

And the only way to avoid seeing all those album artists that you don’t care about is to  . . . yes, edit your ID3 tags.

Which would only take a few minutes! :wink:

5

djKit wrote:

There is only one logical way to group the files and that is: Album Artist || Artist -> Album -> Disc -> Track Number.

Well, it’s not the only way. Logical or not, your Sansa (by the tags) groups them by Artist -> Album/Disc -> Track Title (and/or # if it’s part of the Title).

djKit wrote:

I’ll just make playlists until a Sandisk employee takes the 10 minutes necessary to fix the problem. If need be I can Paypal him/her their 1/6th of an hourly wage to slip it in without disturbing the bosses… 

I wouldn’t hold your breath; it’s been like this for years (with all the Sansa mp3 players), and is unlikely to change in the forseeable future. :smiley: