I’m having a hard time figuring out how to properly manage mp3 files I want to load onto my sansa Fuze. These files are a series of lectures rather than a normal music album. The source of these were 18 CD’s each with 2 lectures contained on 12 separate tracks. I’ve ripped these into mp3 tracks, but I need a reasonable naming convention so the Fuze will display and play these in their proper order. I’ve gone into the properties of each individual file and added: Artist (professor), Title (Title of lecture - 6 tracks of a lecture have the same title), gendre (lecture), and Album Title (Name of course) to the files, and I’ve named all the individual tracks with sequential numbers, eg. “Wisdom of Hist01_01.mp3” thru to “Wisdom of Hist36_12”. (The 01_01 indicating lecture 1, track 1) But these are not playing in the proper order. I don’t understand how they are ordered on the Fuze - can I do this with the proper file naming convention without using a playlist?
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I’m having a hard time figuring out how to properly manage mp3 files I want to load onto my sansa Fuze. These files are a series of lectures rather than a normal music album. The source of these were 18 CD’s each with 2 lectures contained on 12 separate tracks. I’ve ripped these into mp3 tracks, but I need a reasonable naming convention so the Fuze will display and play these in their proper order. I’ve gone into the properties of each individual file and added: Artist (professor), Title (Title of lecture - 6 tracks of a lecture have the same title), gendre (lecture), and Album Title (Name of course) to the files, and I’ve named all the individual tracks with sequential numbers, eg. “Wisdom of Hist01_01.mp3” thru to “Wisdom of Hist36_12”. (The 01_01 indicating lecture 1, track 1) But these are not playing in the proper order. I don’t understand how they are ordered on the Fuze - can I do this with the proper file naming convention without using a playlist?
If your firmware is current and you have the folder navigation, then yes.
OK, that’s a start, knowing I can. Actually I’d like to know how. What is the most efficient way for me to name or tag properties of the files so that they display nicely and play in the proper order?
Never mind; I figured it out myself.
- Name the files with a sequential tag such as I did (Title01 01.mp3 - Title36 12.mp3)
- Under files, properties add tags for Title, Artist, Album Title, Genre. DON’T INCLUDE TRACK.
This is done in Windows XP by highlighting all the files, right clicking and choosing properties, and updating the fields. They can all be done at once.
My problem had been that I had included a track in the property and had multiple track 1-6’s.
Apparently Fuze displays and plays files sorting first by track number, then by filename. If all the track numbers are the same (blank), then the filename defines the sort.
Mp3tag is really the way to go. Under Tools it has an Auto-Numbering Track Wizard, which will put in track numbers that match the order of the files displayed–that is, if your tracks are called 01-Title and you have them sorted by filename (the default) you can highlight them all, run the Auto-Numbering Wizard (check Leading Zeros, it’s a good idea) and voila, all numbered.
Under Tools/Options/Tags/Mpegs set it to write ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1.
It also has a nice Convert function that will get tag info from filenames–if your tracks are 01-Artist-Title and you set the converter right it will derive all the tag info from the filename, and it can handle lots of variations as long as your filenames are done in a consistent way.
