gaima

From what I can see, Tag view is simply arranging the tracks in alphabetical order.

 

If you select a track in the 'Tag' view, then they play back in alphabetical order.

If you select a track in the 'File' view, then they play back in whatever order the example above shows.

 

This behaviour is completely useless, especially if you are trying to listen to an audiobook.

 

As I see it, there are a two problems here:

1) File view doesn't seem to order the tracks based on any sense I can see.

2) Tag view should order the tracks based on the 'track number' in the tag itself. Otherwise, why bother even reading the tags.

I've only signed up to concur with your thoughts Andy.

It's extraordinarily annoying, and just flat out wrong.

How on earth anyone managed to code it like this in the first place, let alone have it get past QA, is anyones guess.

Seems AVH units have had this behaviour for some time too, someone posted here about the 8400BH over a year ago.

http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/33980-usb-or-ipod-tracks-on-8400bh-out-of-order/

When I get home tonight I'll see about copying the MP3s onto my USB stick one by one, in the correct order.

A bit of bash-foo should have that done in a few minutes.

Mike