M6: Randomly displayed and played tracks

When I browse the artists or album, the tracks of the albums are shown in random order, and my M6 plays them in this order.

As expample the directory of the Blind Guardian album Nightfall in Middle-Earth:

Code:

01 - War of Wrath.ogg
02 - Into the Storm.ogg
03 - Lammoth.ogg
04 - Nightfall.ogg
05 - The Minstrel.ogg
06 - The Curse of Feanor.ogg
07 - Captured.ogg
08 - Blood Tears.ogg
09 - Mirror Mirror.ogg
10 - Face the Truth.ogg
11 - Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns).ogg
12 - Battle of Sudden Flame.ogg
13 - Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill).ogg
14 - The Dark Elf.ogg
15 - Thorn.ogg
16 - The Eldar.ogg
17 - Nom the Wise.ogg
18 - When Sorrow Sang.ogg
19 - Out on the Water.ogg
20 - The Steadfast.ogg
21 - A Dark Passage.ogg
22 - Final Chapter (Thus Ends...).ogg

As you can see, all tags are existent:

Code:

Processing file "01 - War of Wrath.ogg"...

New logical stream (#1, serial: 30970a45): type vorbis
Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows...
Version: 0
Vendor: Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20050304
Channels: 2
Rate: 44100

Nominal bitrate: 64.000000 kb/s
Upper bitrate not set
Lower bitrate not set
User comments section follows...
        TITLE=War of Wrath
        ARTIST=Blind Guardian
        TRACKNUMBER=1
        TRACKTOTAL=22
        ALBUM=Nightfall in Middle-Earth
        MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID=79a304b8-b5bc-4a61-82ac-6865cc67ee22
        MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID=7fa7fc04-1011-4876-8095-ecd232edea87
        MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID=7fa7fc04-1011-4876-8095-ecd232edea87
        MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID=f2029a6f-c586-426a-9e41-a548ec5d0a57
        MUSICBRAINZ_SORTNAME=Blind Guardian
        GENRE=Power Metal
        DATE=1998
Vorbis stream 1:
        Total data length: 857918 bytes
        Playback length: 1m:50.093s
        Average bitrate: 62.341141 kb/s
Logical stream 1 ended

The display (and play) order of this album is the following. I use the filenames here and not the track title (without the number and the .ogg extension).

Code:

08 - Blood Tears.ogg
07 - Captured.ogg
02 - Into the Storm.ogg
03 - Lammoth.ogg
09 - Mirror Mirror.ogg
04 - Nightfall.ogg
06 - The Curse of Feanor.ogg
05 - The Minstrel.ogg
01 - War of Wrath.ogg

End of first screen.

Seems, that the titles were alphabetically ordered, but there are some tracks missed, like Face the Truth or Battle of Sudden Flame. Interesting is, that only the first 9 tracks of the album are listened and sorted alphabetically. All other tracks from the album aren't sorted by track number nor track title nor filename:

Code:

10 - Face the Truth.ogg
20 - The Steadfast.ogg
21 - A Dark Passage.ogg
11 - Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns).ogg
12 - Battle of Sudden Flame.ogg
22 - Final Chapter (Thus Ends...).ogg
13 - Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill).ogg
14 - The Dark Elf.ogg
15 - Thorn.ogg
16 - The Eldar.ogg
17 - Nom the Wise.ogg
18 - When Sorrow Sang.ogg
19 - Out on the Water.ogg

Anyone has any suggestions? I have no MP3 files, and no way to create them to check, that the player doesn't support the OGG comments completly.

Doesn't happens to this album only, I have the problem with all albums. I used the search of the forum, but I found no solution how to fix this. I could change the OGG title comment for each file, and hope, that the tracks are sorted correctly. But there are over 2500 files to edit ):

The 'Song order' has no effect.

Firmware version... ?

Current, S2.003.2

The original firmware.

Hy,

I had the same problem with my M6SL, some ogg files played alphabetically instead of ordered by tracknumber, only in album/artist view.

I found out that the TOTALTRACK information caused the confusion. I removed it from the tags, and the album played as expected.

...Interesting is, that only the first 9 tracks of the album are listened and sorted alphabetically...

If the problem still occurs after removing TOTALTRACK from the tag, you could try to place al leeding 0 to all tracks < 10.

Hope this helps, greetings
Sober

i have the problem with all wma files, so i added the track number to the title of all my music, now its sorted ok.