@kr7l wrote:
Does anyone know how to cause a track number to show up?
Your player is using tags to display and order track titles. It is not using filenames. (For filename access, you’d need a player that has the option for “Folder” access, which are a minority of players.)
In particular, it’s using the two tags “Title” and “Track”, with the sort order “Title”, then “Track” within title. You have to renumber the tracks (or titles, but that’s probably more kludgy). The free Mp3tag program can do this (Under File, “Change directory” to the directory with your files ordered the way you want, then under “Tools”, use the “Auto-numbering wizard” to sequentially number the tracks). Or instead of mp3tag, you probably you can do this in your music management program of choice.
Most OverDrive audiobooks are in protected WMA format, so I’m assuming you’ve solved that problem if you’ve already split them into smaller fragments. Or you are just listening to OverDrive MP3 audiobooks.
For example, I have an eleven-part OverDrive audiobook “Breach of Trust”. OverDrive gives them 11 different Titles,
“Breach of Trust - Part 01”,
“Breach of Trust - Part 02”,
…
“Breach of Trust - Part 11”
If you split those parts into subparts like you want to do, you have a couple of options regarding putting your audiobook subparts in directory(s), in preparation for renumbering tags using the auto-numbering wizard tool:
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Put all the subparts in the same directory. You’ll get continuous track numbers.
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Put “… Part 01” subparts in one directory, “… Part 02” segments in another directory, etc. Then run the wizard in each directory. You can start up track numbering of “… Part 02” segments at “1” this way.
Either way works. Either way also requires you to rename every file, so that they get ordered properly in your tagging program.
It sounds like your player only resumes if you pause and manually shut down first. You might learn the drill soon, as opposed to all the work of splitting and retagging. Perhaps also your player does fast-forward at two speeds: slow when you FF while playing, faster when you FF when paused. Alternatively, you could purchase a cheap player that has a better resume function, like the Clip/Clip+/Fuze (not necessarily the Fuze+ --read up on that one’s resume functioning first before buying, to make sure it’s ok for you).
Another option is to Rockbox your player, if it’s available for your player. Rockbox can only play MP3 files, not protected WMA files. But it has good resume, and folder access.
