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Offline Iendicott

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MZD MP3 Sort List
« on: April 01, 2017, 08:46:04 pm »
Anyone know what fields the MZD sorts it's MP3 on ?

I have ripped some of my old CD's to MP3 but instead of playing the following

Track 01. Song Name
Track 02. Song Name
Track 03. Song Name
Track 04. Song Name
Track 05. Song Name
Track 06. Song Name
Track 07. Song Name
Track 08. Song Name
Track 09. Song Name
Track 10. Song Name
Track 11. Song Name
Track 12. Song Name
Track 13. Song Name

It plays in this order

Track 01. Song Name
Track 11. Song Name
Track 12. Song Name
Track 13. Song Name

Track 02. Song Name
Track 03. Song Name
Track 04. Song Name
Track 05. Song Name
Track 06. Song Name
Track 07. Song Name
Track 08. Song Name
Track 09. Song Name
Track 10. Song Name

I thought it sorted on either track number or filename so not sure the logic behind it !

Any ideas ?

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Re: MZD MP3 Sort List
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2017, 11:09:07 pm »
This might sound stupid, but what if you named your tracks
11. Song name
12. Song name
13. Song name
14. Song name
15. Song name 

etc etc up to  20
 
« Last Edit: July 12, 2017, 04:44:53 pm by Willpower »
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Re: MZD MP3 Sort List
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2017, 09:33:20 pm »
Already tried that bud.

I think the issue is windows when tagging mp3's seems to drop the leading zero on the track number so 1,11,12,13,2,3,4 would be the right order so to speak.

Might drop an email to Mazda UK to see if they have any suggestions.

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Re: MZD MP3 Sort List
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2017, 12:16:18 pm »
If you're talking about a 2016 onwards system, then it uses gracenote. And gracenote is a pile of crap when it comes to identifying and correctly tagging MP3s.

You can however disable gracenote at your own risk -

There are instructions in the Mazda3 sister site as well as YouTube that show how to disable Gracenote. Google is your friend.

Here's a summary:
1. Get the latest Gracenote update from the Mazda website or re-apply the current version if you already have it.
2. Start the Gracenote update process and wait until the progress bar is at the halfway point.
3. Interrupt the update via the 3 finger salute or turn the car off.
Gracenote should now be disabled.

Why would you want to do this?
Two reasons. Gracenote will override any MP3 tagging you may have in your songs. The Gracenote database (I assume is crowd sourced) will more times than not display a compilation CD's name and artwork; e.g. "Greatest Dance Hits of the 80's" etc. If you're lucky the CD's name is in English. I've seen it in German more than once which is great if you are in a German speaking country. I'm not.

The other reason is more pernicious. I keep my library in the root directory. I always use shuffle so individual folders are not necessary for me. Ever since I've owned this car I would notice that the Infotainment would only pick a subset of about 100 of my songs to shuffle. The same shuffled song set would loop. If I turned off the shuffle option, skipped ahead a couple of songs then re-enabled shuffle the system would pick another subset to loop.There were many songs that never loaded.

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Re: MZD MP3 Sort List
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2017, 11:37:17 pm »
Why give a track a number in the first place.
My pre-facelift 2014 plays in alphabetical order of song title, so I don't need shuffle, which you still have to press if you want it each time  you turn the car on.
I have about 8Gb  of music on a 16Gb  dedicated music memory stick. Never know whats coming up next, don't really need the screen lit up to tell me whats playing either, its only background music. I even had the sounds of birdsong in a wood I recorded on my DSLR camera and converted it to an mp3 file. I also recored two lots of birdsong and placed one over the other doubling the number of birds tweeting. I am not a twitcher, but a amateur photographer  and like playing round with software.

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Re: MZD MP3 Sort List
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2017, 03:42:40 pm »
Already tried that bud.

I think the issue is windows when tagging mp3's seems to drop the leading zero on the track number so 1,11,12,13,2,3,4 would be the right order so to speak.

Might drop an email to Mazda UK to see if they have any suggestions.

You are correct. I would renumber them as
001
002
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.
010
011
etc
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