UniLite UPuP Album tracks played not in numeric order

Posted by: JEM on 02 December 2013

Hi this is my first post as a result of my frustration at not being able to get my UniLite to play album tracks from my WD MyBookLiveDuo in numerical order. Everything works well and the sound quality is brilliant, but classical music tracks played in alphabetical order is nonsense.

 

WD say the problem is the player reads the album tracks in alphabetical order. I have been told that the UniLite will read either numeric or alphabetical order depending on what the server presents.

 

So the issue appears to be when CD’s are ripped the disc meta file needs to be configured such that the Unilite will read the files in numeric order. To this end I downloaded and installed Asset UPup which established an “Asset UPup” directory. I ripped some of my CD’s which appeared in this file. I then copied and pasted the files into my WD MyBookLiveDuo  and sat back to listen to some music only to find tracks playing in alphabetical order.

 

I am using Windows 8 and Media Player to rip my CD’s.

 

Is there anyone out there who has overcome this problem and has the patience to take me through the fix please?

 

JEM

Posted on: 28 December 2013 by Graham Hull
Originally Posted by RaceTripper:

I also had the problem with Twonky playing classical tracks in alphabetical order, rather than proper track order. Everyone thought I was nuts, but I did some research and found that there was indeed an uncorrected bug. The fix involves editing one of Twonky's XML configuration files. I dumped Twonky a long time ago since it proved to be such a "pile of poo."

 

See these links for info about the Twonky complaint and fix:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-...de-still/td-p/482774

http://community.twonky.com/tw...rder_my_music_tracks

 

 

I have used Twonky for 2 1/2 years now for rock and classical music and have never had a problem with track sorting. Both of the links above refer to problems with folder mode. I don't understand why anyone would want to browse stored music in this way as music file metadata does not have a folder tag. People seem to be getting all confused over what is actually a simple and effective way of browsing a music collection.

Posted on: 28 December 2013 by RaceTripper
Originally Posted by Graham Hull:
Originally Posted by RaceTripper:

I also had the problem with Twonky playing classical tracks in alphabetical order, rather than proper track order. Everyone thought I was nuts, but I did some research and found that there was indeed an uncorrected bug. The fix involves editing one of Twonky's XML configuration files. I dumped Twonky a long time ago since it proved to be such a "pile of poo."

 

See these links for info about the Twonky complaint and fix:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-...de-still/td-p/482774

http://community.twonky.com/tw...rder_my_music_tracks

 

 

I have used Twonky for 2 1/2 years now for rock and classical music and have never had a problem with track sorting. Both of the links above refer to problems with folder mode. I don't understand why anyone would want to browse stored music in this way as music file metadata does not have a folder tag. People seem to be getting all confused over what is actually a simple and effective way of browsing a music collection.

There is no confusion at all. I prefer to use Folder Mode because it's the only way I can manage my classical collection and traverse and play it the way I want. I organize my classical FLAC files into folders by genre (i.e. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, etc) and then by Composer, perhaps subdivisions from there, and so on. It's pretty much the same way I organize my vinyl collection, and how I go to find a record when I want to play it. It's a system that is not broken and one that has worked for me for 40 years.

 

Tags for classical music are so broken it would take way more time than I want to spend fixing them. I've tried using the tags. I find it overwhelming with bad information that is not useful to me. I prefer to not deal with and use tags at all.