Where's my 'Play from this track' gone?

Posted by: Goon525 on 19 February 2014

I know someone here will be able to answer this. Normally, when I want to hear a classical work of multiple tracks, I hit the first one in nStream and then choose 'Play from this track'. But I've just loaded up an album where nStream simply isn't giving me that choice. As I don't really want to create a playlist, I just had to pick the next track after the previous one finished - repeatedly, and rather irritatingly. Thanks to a recommendation here last week, I've now got Metadatics and can mess with the metadata if that's where the problem lies. Can the brains trust come up with a solution?

Paul

Posted on: 19 February 2014 by hungryhalibut

Is it just on the one album? Is the queue next and queue last option coming up?

Posted on: 19 February 2014 by Goon525

Yes, it does just seem to be the one album. Yes, I get Queue Next, Queue last, New Playlist come up, but NOT Play from this track, just Play

Posted on: 20 February 2014 by hungryhalibut

Most odd. As it's only one album, it must be a specific issue with the disc. You'll just have to play the whole thing, or simply press queue last to add the various tracks in the right order. Don't use play next or they will end up in reverse.

Posted on: 20 February 2014 by Goon525

Thanks, Halibut. Yes, your suggestion of 'queue next' and 'queue last' will work. But I'd prefer to figure out the problem and solve it. Bought as a download from a smallish label, I had to make some changes to metadata to get it playing in the right order. I prefer to know what I'm doing, and would love to know what's upset nStream here.

Posted on: 20 February 2014 by Stampie

Sounds like an issue remains with the metadata to me (rather than nStream)

 

I find most downloaded music has missing tags - obvious ones to look out for that I can think of are AlbumArtist, Compilation Y/N, Total number of tracks (so a track should show up as 1/12 etc.), different spelling for shared tags like 'album title', errant spaces at the end of tag names.

 

Sometimes I have had to overwrite some of the tag values for all tracks to get rid of anomalies (I use dbPoweramp and MP3Tag for all my tag management)

 

regards

Nick

 

PS Just thought of something else. There are different tag standards - such as IDV3v1 and v2. Not sure if they could cause the problem if the download is using an older standard (for example)

Posted on: 20 February 2014 by DaveBk

Wild guess, but here goes... In order to play 'from' a particular position there has to be a logical sequence - in this case track numbers. I'd take a very close look at the track number sequence, and probably go as far as explicitly re-writing it using a meta-data editor.

 

Watch out for leading spaces or anything remotely odd.

Posted on: 20 February 2014 by Goon525

Thanks, Nick and Dave, but I have carefully ensured that the track numbering is all of the form 1 of 13 etc. So whatever the problem is, it's not that!