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Solve : Play order of files in mp3 device??

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I have a Samsung mp3 player (model YP-U2, 512 mb).

It has it's own software program for organising files and I also use Windows MEDIA Centre.

My problem is that when I transfer files from more than one cd into the device (say cd A and cd B and say 20 tracks from each) they appear and are played in order: A1, B1, A2, B2, A3....etc.

As I use the player for spoken word material this means I can only listen to one cd at a TIME, then have to delete and load the next. There must be a way of correcting this but I can't figure it out - I've tried making playlists, but that doesn't work, and I can find nothing in Media Centre help menu.

Any SUGGESTIONS would be appreciated.I don't get this. By "use the player for spoken word material", you mean you use it as a voice recorder, right? So, how does using it as a voice recorder limit you to only loading one CD at a time on it?

I also use an MP3 player as a voice recorder and have music on it. It's only a 256MB model but doing some voice recordings on it in no way affects the mix of music I load on it. The only limitation is the AMOUNT of memory. But, even a 256MB player can hold several hours of music and still hold some voice recordings.Thanks for reply Soybean.

I should have explained more clearly - I mean talking books cds. Recently it's been BBC history sets of three or more cds. As you can imagine, with any narrative thread this mixed up order is hopeless.

I wonder if editing the track numbers before transmitting to the device would help. Rename the files to something more consecutive.

File 1, file 2, file 3, etc.

Not A1, B1, A2.

"Spoken material" is referred to as an 'audio book'. Quote from: soybean on April 13, 2007, 09:29:57 AM

But, even a 256MB player can hold several hours of music and still hold some voice recordings.

Several hours? Must be some small files. What quality do you use? I'm lucky to get two hours of music on my 512 GB iPod Shuffle.The files are numbered just 1, 2, 3, etc in Media Player and in the device. I only quoted A1 and B1 to indicate that the first file from cd B came immediately after file 1 of cd A, and so on, on the device.

I tried editing the numbers in Media Player. Two cds, each 19 tracks, renumbering the second cd 20 to 38, but got in a mess - just too fiddly.

Over here we call them "Spoken word", or "Talking books".So is it COMPLETELY random?

Perhaps you accidentally toggled the shuffle mode on your Mp3 player. I CHECKED the shuffle option and its "off".

On the device the tracks are in a logical sequence - just the wrong logic!
The first file on the first cd is followed by the first file on the second cd, the second file on the first cd is followed by the second file on the second cd and so on - making the order on the device: 1 1, 2 2, 3 3 ...

I would have thought that anything loaded on to the device would play in the order it was loaded, but that's not happening here. It's very exasperating.

Anyway, thanks for your interest.Instead of using track 1, track 2, etc., try using actual file names, then recreate your playlist. The logical listing is like windows explorer - alpha-numerical order.in a direct accsess FAT filesystem MP3 player if you setup the hierarchy like this then it will play in order:

disk
|--CD 001
| |-Track 001
| |-Track 002
| |-so on and so forth
|--CD 002
| |-Track 001
| |-Track 002
| |-so on and so forth
|--so on and so forth

then it will play hte files from CD 1 in order from first to last then move on to CD 2 make sure that you use placholders for FAT/FAT32/NTFS/Mac OS/Mac OS Exc/whavever other filesystem your useing unless you want it to be organized like so:

1
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
2
20
21
22
23
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

adding placeholders makes it apear/play like this

01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23

if you have 100 files then the placeholder for 1 looks like this 001 and the place holder for 10 look like this 010 if you have 1000 files then its 0001, 0010, 0100, 0043, ect ect. letters are not adiquate placholders unless you want to collate the files (the A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2, ect ect format) this is how i made it work on my Crative Zen V Plus and RCA Lyria MP3 players and its simple computer logic to organize the files properly i hope this helps Thanks for all suggestions -

Whatever I try in the way of editing the playlists I make of the cds, the result in the device is the same. I wonder if there is some sort of inbuilt play instruction in the cds themselves.

I guess I'll have to put up with the irritation of one cd at a time, for the time being, but I'll keep plugging away.Sounds like it is the Samsung software program that is lacking features here...


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