Song Sorting

mhamlin · 11-03-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaremoS

Not so fast!!!! :D

In last firmware released yesterday this problem seems to have been fixed... apply it and check it

Hmm, I assume you're talking about the 2.004.3 firmware? Unfortunately, I get the same problem. I'm glad if it's working for other people, at least.

yetiwisdom · 04-06-2008

I'd like to add to the chorus that I find the M6's handling of the ID3 tags & track order very annoying. I've got probably 200GB of music and the idea of retagging either my whole catalog or selectively retagging because the tagging isn't implemented correctly is nothing short of infuriating.

Meizu: want to start a word-of-mouth revolution? Start fixing the basics on the M6.

parena · 04-06-2008

Boy am I glad that I can tell Amarok to rename songs, create directories, etc, when putting them on my miniplayer. No fuss at all.

mbarry · 04-06-2008

I have no problem at all.

Speeder · 04-07-2008

The newest version firmware is 2004.6.

coolchillies · 05-18-2008

I found an other way to always get the correct song order.
I automatically generate playlists when I update the music on my Meizu.
This will only work when your mp3 files have correct formatting (filename starts with track number).

VBSCript code:
(put it in your root dir and run it after copying media)
(this is what I use, if you have other requirements, change it!)

Code:

Const ForReading = 1 
Const ForWriting = 2 
Const ForAppending = 8 
Const TristateUseDefault = -2 
Const TristateTrue = -1 
Const TristateFalse = 0 

Const PlaylistFolder = "PLAYLISTS"
Const MusicFolder = "MUSIC"
Const UTFFullPath = "#[UTF8FULLPATH]"
Const FileTypeM3u = "m3u"

Dim oShell, oSysEnv, oFileSys, oFile, oStream, oNetwork, oArgs
Dim sCurrentPath, oMusicFolder, oPlaylistFolder, oCurrentFolder, bNoFiles

Dim FileFilter(6)
FileFilter(1) = "mp3"
FileFilter(2) = "mpc"
FileFilter(3) = "ape"
FileFilter(4) = "flac"
FileFilter(5) = "ogg"
FileFilter(6) = "m4a"

Set oShell         = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFileSys     = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oNetwork     = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set oSysEnv     = oShell.Environment("PROCESS")

'Build paths
sCurrentPath = CStr(oShell.CurrentDirectory)
Set oMusicFolder = oFileSys.Getfolder(sCurrentPath & MusicFolder)
Set oPlaylistFolder = oFileSys.Getfolder(sCurrentPath & PlaylistFolder)

'Delete all existing playlists
For Each oFile in oPlaylistFolder.Files
    If LCase(oFileSys.GetExtensionName(oFile.Path)) = FileTypeM3u Then oFile.Delete
Next

'Loop all folders in music directory
For Each oFolder In oMusicFolder.SubFolders
    CreateM3U(oFolder.Name)
Next


Sub CreateM3U (sName)
    bNoFiles = True
    Set oCurrentFolder = oFileSys.GetFolder(oMusicFolder.Path & "\" & sName)
    oPlaylistFolder.CreateTextFile(sName & ".m3u")
    Set oTextFile = oFileSys.GetFile(oPlaylistFolder.Path & "\" & sName & ".m3u") 
    Set oStream = oTextFile.OpenAsTextStream(ForAppending, TristateUseDefault)   
    
    For Each oFile In oCurrentFolder.Files
        For i=1 To UBound(FileFilter) 
            If LCase(oFileSys.GetExtensionName(oFile.Path)) = FileFilter(i) Then 
                oStream.WriteLine(UTFFullPath & "\" & oMusicFolder.Name & "\" & sName & "\" & oFile.Name)
                oStream.WriteLine("\" & oMusicFolder.Name & "\" & sName & "\" & oFile.Name)
                bNoFiles = False
            End If
        Next
    Next
    
    oStream.Close
    If bNoFiles Then oTextFile.Delete
End Sub

Guitar1969 · 05-19-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by mhamlin

Hello,

I just got an M6 today, and am pretty pleased with it thus far. I've upgraded to the latest firmware.

Anyway, I uploaded some of my library to the M6. I've noticed that while browsing albums, the songs are not ordered correctly--they are ordered lexicographically by the song title, while they should be ordered according to track number. The songs are tagged correctly, and the M6 does extract the tag information.

I've noticed this is only the case for my ogg albums--the albums encoded with mp3 are sorted by track properly.

Has anyone encountered this? If so, does anyone know how to remedy this?

Thank you,
Mike

This has been an ongoing problem with the M6 for formats other than mp3. I use WMA on my 8gb M6 and have this problem on some(not all albums). Its another glitch that Meizu has ignored, making their player another wannabe Ipod. As you are probably experiencing, when you first get your M6 you thnk it blows the Ipod away(Better hardware design, better playback, etc) but once you dig deeper you will see that it lacks where every other Chinese player lacks in, software interface/design, and firmware improvements making it just average. Meizu does update firmware, but they instead choose to add nonessential features(lyric support - come on) rather than addressing the inherent bugs in basic mp3 player playback functionality
stuttering, album art, playback ordering) . I still use my M6 with all its shortcomings occassionally, but would never buy another - My son's Creative Zen blows it away in interface, etc.

Our only hope at this point is Rockbox to make it the player it could be.

vigilantpa1adin · 08-14-2008

I am having the same issues with all of my ogg music... its too unfortunate... everything else about it is amazing, but this is just so bad... I am listening to the bible (over 1000 tracks, which only takes about 1 gig with OGG) and it mixes them all up... sad day

jskasia · 09-11-2008

Hi There

I have my music in format of ape(one large file whole album) and cue(indexes in text format), how do i sort by track number?

inguringu · 10-04-2008

Hey,

I am a brand new M6 SL user, just got it this week in the mainland China. (My old creative zen's headphone input must have worn out, made listening almost impossible. otherwise, only good words about it.)

so, the first thing to figure out was video encoding, which after getting BatMan was solved. the video encoder with the Cd did not work on my Vista.

The other thing as you well know is the wrong song order (btw,not always alphabetical) which appeared in some but not all album folders.

With some trial and error routines I found out the cause and the solution!

The cause is ID3v2 tag's tracking format. If the track numbers are e.g. 2/9 or 0088, then it screws up the song order. To solve this you need either to delete v2 tag (assuming you have v1 tags) or renumber the songs to e.g. 2 or 88. I downloaded Mp3tag - it does auto numbering for any amount of files. Just make sure the track number is a plain number, and it should work. Extra effort though..