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[Stilgar99]

Heya folks...
I didnt see this posted before but I know many have been frustrated by albums playing in alpha order rather than album order. After some experimentation today I found the following...
- If you record MP3s they will play in alpha order
- If you record CDs they play in album order

Course the only issue is that CD recording is pretty slow. But anyway...thought folks may want to know..

Stilgar

[volt11]

Heya folks...
I didnt see this posted before but I know many have been frustrated by albums playing in alpha order rather than album order. After some experimentation today I found the following...
- If you record MP3s they will play in alpha order
- If you record CDs they play in album order

Course the only issue is that CD recording is pretty slow. But anyway...thought folks may want to know..

Stilgar

The other problem with recording to the HDD is that you're at the mercy of whatever encoder and bit rate is used by GM, neither of which are specified or settable. Based on listening to it, my guess is it's around 128Kbps MP3, which is OK but not great. I prefer to play my higher quality MP3s off of the USB stick directly, and I've used "Mp3/Tag Studio" to rename the tracks so they'll play in track order.

I'm successfully using a 64GB flash drive with about 8000 songs, all stored at 256Kbps to 384Kbps bitrates. One issue I had to work around was that there's a limit to how many folders the system will read through on a single USB, so I ended up lumping all the tracks into 27 folders, A through Z and 0-9. Doesn't matter, really, because the system scans all the tracks and reorganizes them by Artist (poorly), Album (good), and so forth.

Note that if you record off your USB to the HDD, you'll be decoding and re-encoding at the Volt-standard bitrate, I'm pretty sure. Lossy codecs like MP3 just get worse with each generation of copying like that.

IMO, we still need GM to address the track play order issue.

[Stilgar99]

IMO, we still need GM to address the track play order issue.

Dont get me wrong....I still think GM should address the track play order issue. I just wanted folks to understand that if they recorded off of CDs that it would play in album order..

Stilgar