I recently downloaded 2 96-24 albums in FLAC from 7digital. The Mavericks latest Brand New Day (which is pretty compressed but that is another story) and Rhiannon Giddens EP Factory Girl. For some odd reason the tracks on each album played in alphabetical order, not track order. No other albums in my collection exhibit this behavior.
Trouble Shooting:
None of those attempts corrected it. If I played the album by selecting Music Folder first, they would play properly as the files are named with the track number.
Also, and I have seen this behavior before with FLACS, even though I set the tags 'Artist Sort' and 'Album Artist Sort' to "Giddens, Rhiannon", it is still sorted under "R". If I add new tags "ARTISTSORT" and "ALBUMARTISTSORT" (note the capital letters and no spacing) and tag with "Giddens, Rhiannon" it is sortted properly under "G".
I have found a work around - I used the batch converter in dbpoweramp to convert the 96/24 FLACS to 96/24 FLACS in a new folder. (There shouldn't be any harm in that, should there?)
As an afterthought, perhaps I should have did a complete rescan of the library first, maybe that might have cleared it up.
Can anyone offer any clues? This is one of the frustrating things about this 'hobby'. Sometimes you just want to sit and listen to an album and these little gremlins sneak in and you wind up troubleshooting for an hour!
- Songs played in alphabetical order, not track order
- Album is listed as "Brand New Day/ Brand New Day" for The Mavericks and "Factory Girl / Factory Girl" for Rhiannon Giddens (no quotes)
- Similarly each song title is listed as song title / song title (eg. Riding Along / Riding Along)
- Doesn't matter if I used the web browser of the SBT directly.
- When I examined the tags, the album name and track names are not doubled like that
Trouble Shooting:
- Using dbpoweramp I edited Disc from 1/1 to 01
- Change Track from 1/10, 2/10, 3/10, etc to 01, 02, 03 etc.
- Changed the file name from "The Mavericks - 1. Riding Along.FLAC" "The Mavericks - 01 Riding Along.FLAC" (IOW I removed the period)
None of those attempts corrected it. If I played the album by selecting Music Folder first, they would play properly as the files are named with the track number.
Also, and I have seen this behavior before with FLACS, even though I set the tags 'Artist Sort' and 'Album Artist Sort' to "Giddens, Rhiannon", it is still sorted under "R". If I add new tags "ARTISTSORT" and "ALBUMARTISTSORT" (note the capital letters and no spacing) and tag with "Giddens, Rhiannon" it is sortted properly under "G".
I have found a work around - I used the batch converter in dbpoweramp to convert the 96/24 FLACS to 96/24 FLACS in a new folder. (There shouldn't be any harm in that, should there?)
As an afterthought, perhaps I should have did a complete rescan of the library first, maybe that might have cleared it up.
Can anyone offer any clues? This is one of the frustrating things about this 'hobby'. Sometimes you just want to sit and listen to an album and these little gremlins sneak in and you wind up troubleshooting for an hour!