Hi all. This is my first post and I know very little about music technology, so please bear with me.
Two years ago I bought a UnitiQute with the intention of building an entirely electronic music library. I have been doing that as follows:
1. I buy music on iTunes Using my laptop.
2. I transfer the files downloaded from iTunes from my laptop to an external Iomega hard drive using my home wifi (the external hard drive has a wire connection to the UnitiQute).
3. I use the Naim app on my iPad to operate the UnitiQute to play music.
Problem: often although not always, the track ordering displayed on the Naim app on my iPad is different to the original track order of the music purchased from iTunes. For instance, a three-CD box set of Beethoven piano concertos downloaded from iTunes appears on the Naim app in this order:
- first: CD 1, track one
- second: CD 2, track one
- third: CD 3, track one
- fourth: CD 1, track two
and so on. So I can't listen to the movements in the right order without manually choosing the next one each time a movement ends.
I'm sure a hundred people have been here before me and that there's a simple fix (short of Naim bringing out an app that works well on all its machinery - I've given up on that).
If the solution is 'renumber the tracks', please tell me how.
Many thanks!
Posted on: 03 November 2014 by sjbabbey
You should try retagging the tracks. I'm not an iTunes user but if you retag the tracks so that the track numbers on CD2 start from the next track number after those on CD1 (and similarly for CD3) this should solve your issue. You may also want to add the track number to the start of the track title e.g. 01 - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 I. Allegro con brio.
BTW you might want to have this thread moved to the Streaming Audio forum.
Posted on: 03 November 2014 by Phil Mulvaney
I think you will find that this a disc problem and not a track problem.
Try renaming the discs by putting Disc 1 at the end of the CD1 title, Disc 2 at the end of the CD2 title and so on.
This allows it to differentiate between albums with the same title and should solve your problem.
Posted on: 03 November 2014 by Mike-B
It might be an .app problem.
I had the same problem with one album. Its started after some confusion using the app when it started on track 2 & then locked up when playing track 5. I hit the iPad "home" button & stopped it playing that album & from that time onwards it alway showed track 5 first in the app playlist.
But looking into the NAS file folder & on Windows Explorer the track sequence was correct.
I re-edited the tags, cleared the app cache, deleted & reinstalled the app, re-booted both NAS & NDX & re-indexed the NAS, no luck.
The fix (for me)was to remove & then reload the album in the NAS.
That did not make sense as it just loaded exactly the same file & track order; however when the album was removed, I checked the app could no longer see it, then reloaded & now it could see it again. So until someone tells me otherwise I think its an app problem (I've reported it to the app development engineer at Naim)
Posted on: 03 November 2014 by hungryhalibut
If you are buying music from iTunes it will be in MP3 quality, which is not very good. You'd be better buying CDs and ripping them, or downloading in cd quality where this is available. When the UnitiServe rips multidisc albums it adds [CD 2] etc. to differentiate them.
