Audiobooks jumbled all over the damn place

[PhilK]

I have tried several times with both SS aqnd Viao transfer to upload an audiobook or two. Stephen King's "Everything Eventual" and Dean Koontz "The Bad Place". BOTH are jumbled ludicrously by both progs. Bad Place for example is clearly numbered CD01 track01, 02 03, etc, Only after these two crappy progs have finished with them they start with track 176, then 01, 054, etc etc no matter even if I drip feed Viao, it still jumbles them - the same applied to everythings eventual

I knew that SS was the worst software of all MP3 players, but never thought it would be THIS bad. The prog sometimes closes itself for no reason too, as does Viao, but not as often.

Is there a way to get audiobooks to load onto this damn thing in the right order ?????

Oh yes - I have noted that bookmarks seem to go back to the beginning too. Some bookmark....

Update:- I tried another, Robert Silverberg's "Valentine Pontifex", and that seemed to load in order.

Is there a way to rearrange or add tracks to an album after loading ?

Edited April 2, 2006 by PhilK

[PhilK]

Hmm. Not a clue ?

I have tried everything I can think of. It STILL loads the audiobooks concerned in a ludicrous manner - all first parts of the 13 CD's first, all 2nd parts next...

No other mp3 software is so slow and restrictive (or keep closing itself down for no reason) and about as unhelpful as possible.

[Ishiyoshi]

For your reference - To organize individual tracks of the same album: Ensure that you select "Tracks in the compilation albums" (within track properties) on the tracks in question. In addition, ensure that all the tracks of the same album have identical album title. In your case, perhaps you need to tweak your Mp3 tag somewhat - ensure that all audio tracks belonging to Stephen King's "Everything Eventual" bears the same album title.

Note: Because by default, SonicStage sort music tracks by artist, tracks of the same album but with various artists will be placed as individual tracks. Thus, you will need to re-organize the tracks accordingly as outlined above.

[no_alibi]

try this - it usually works for me:

First of All, go to Tools > Options > Advanced Settings on the Menu.

Make sure the check box has a tick in it: “rename the corresponding music file….” This needs to be done, or any changes made in the Library will not be imported into the Player.

Open each of the Audio Books in the Music Library – check the Track Number (over to the right). If they are all at 0 you’ll need to rename them – 1, 2, 3 etc. Regardless of the name of the file, they can get jumbled up if the Track Number is not filled in.

[ub_]

I always run my mp3's through mp3tag before importing them into SS as its much faster and easier to make sure the tracks are numbers correctly.

[PhilK]

Thanks for the help - I went to do exactly as Ishiyoshi said, then when I went to transfer, it closed itself down - another of the infuriating problems with SS (Thanks loads for the help by the way Ishiyoshi - greatly appreciated)

No Alibi - that was already done !

ub - I too use that brilliant free German prog mp3tag - and did in this case too. The book (Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven) already had decent mp3 tags on the chapters - titles which disappear on SS for some reason.

[PhilK]

Ringworld Engineers was sorted nicely by Ishiyoshi's idea (Thanks !) But subsequent times I have tried to sort audiobooks in this manner have resulted in the book disappearing from the list !

Also - is there no way you can rearrange the tracks, or create a "best of" from the tracks already ON the player ?

The progs closing themselves down continue apace, by the way - why is this ? It never happened with the Rio software for my old Karma, or the easy to use MPIO.