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Rookoo
Jul 24, 2007
This might be a fairly basic question, but I have an audiobook split into 30 chapters and I want them to play on my Car, which has an old Mp3 CD player, from start to finish, 1-30.

I have named them Part 1, Part 2...Part 10 etc.

The issue is after part 1 the player goes straight to Part 10. I assume because it just reads stuff that starts with a one first before moving onto 2's. I have also encountered a similar issue when using a smart tv to view photos with a similar naming structure in the past. In windows I can just change how they're ordered or whatever, and the problem doesn't exist, but on some other devices I have this issue.

Assuming I can't change how they're ordered through some other means and I'm unsure how the CD player reads metadata, how am I supposed to name my files so they play in order? "One" "Two" "Three" appears to put three before two in windows, but I don't know if it would do the same in the CD player.

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Alereon
Feb 6, 2004

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College Slice
There's three ways the CD player could be doing this, in some combination:

1. Checking for a .m3u or .pls playlist file
2. Checking the Track # ID3 tag in the MP3 header
3. Just playing them in order based on the filename

To make #3 work the easiest way is to prefix a track number with a leading zero, so like:

01 - Audiobook.mp3
02 - Audiobook.mp3
10 - Audiobook.mp3
etc

Rookoo
Jul 24, 2007

Alereon posted:

There's three ways the CD player could be doing this, in some combination:

1. Checking for a .m3u or .pls playlist file
2. Checking the Track # ID3 tag in the MP3 header
3. Just playing them in order based on the filename

To make #3 work the easiest way is to prefix a track number with a leading zero, so like:

01 - Audiobook.mp3
02 - Audiobook.mp3
10 - Audiobook.mp3
etc

Ah, I see. Seems fairly obvious when you put it like that.

I'll reburn it with the new filenames.

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