Server Stored Albums - Album tracks listed / play alphabetically through the Naim App?

Posted by: Leon Wadsworth on 10 September 2017

As the title suggests. Is there any reason why this is happening that can be fixed?


I have all my music stored on a NAS (Seagate Personal Cloud) which I access readily through the Naim app..

 

The Seagate app used to do the same but was sorted in an update and all the tracks list and play in the correct order through that app but not through the naim app. 

Regards

Leon

Posted on: 15 September 2017 by Odd Time Jon
sjbabbey posted:
Mike-B posted:
sjbabbey posted:

I think that the server will play the files in the order that they appear in the file folder when using folder view so if the filenames are in alpha order then this the order in which they will be played. I use %track% - %title% format for my filenames so this is not an issue.

On the odd occasion I've used folder/file view I've noticed that the app shows these listed in the play queue as %playqueue no% - %track% - %title% so it is listing them and playing by filename order.

I don't agree,  all rips & downloads have track numbers & that controls how they are ordered in the file folder.  The order they get played & if they do play in a non numeric sequence will be a function of the media server software.  

I'm sorry you don't agree. By default, Windows file explorer (and I'd expect that Linux does too) certainly orders files by alpha within file folders. Of course, if the track no. appears at the start of the filename then they will be sorted in numeric/alpha order. I'm using Asset v6.1 (beta) and this includes a folder/file view in addition to the usual metadata tag based views and when using the folder/file browser view the files are served and appear in the app play queue as I have described.

The OP has indicated that the tracks appear in the correct order when choosing the "Album" (tag based) view rather than the Folder/File (non tag based) view and this is exactly the behaviour I'd expect.

 

Hi. I'm no IT expert but I think Mike B and sjbabbey are both correct! I ripped my CDs using dbpoweramp over the past few years into FLAC.  The metadata put the track number at the start of the file name.  I have also used dbpoweramp batch converter to convert all my FLAC rips to mp3 just for flexibility and space when listening on my portable DAP (i basso DX90). I can now see, thanks to this thread, why, when I go to "Directory " mode, MP3 album tracks are listed and played in alphabetical order whereas FLAC album tracks are listed and played in the correct order.  I see that this is because the FLAC files show the track numbers at the start of the file name whereas the MP3 filenames start with the track name. I guess with hindsight I should have noticed that when I ran batch converter on the FLAC files and made sure the track number was at the start. I'm not too bothered though because I don't listen to MP3 files very much and even then not typically in directory mode.