annoying artist info order

[lodore]

Hi, i am mainly happy with my black nw-A3000 but i have one annoying problem with it and its as follows,

i imported most of my Joe Satriani CD's in to sonic stage as the atrac 64kbps format and they stay under the same heading as it should.

now today i imported the new Joe Satriani live cd both discs as atrac 64kbps advanced lossless format and they apear under the same heading in sonicstage.

but on my nw-a3000 i have two Joe Satriani sections which is annoying because i just want one section i think you can see why. i have checked the artist name was the same and it was and even put the same genre.

am i right in thinking because its different formats they make a new folder for the same artist?

I have seen this problem before and it was because i had one letter out but it doesnt seem to be the problme this time.

any idea how i can put all the albums in the same folder on my player?

is there any other reason or comman problem that makes sonicstage put it under a new folder on the player?

thanks in advance

lodore

[MDX-400]

i imported most of my Joe Satriani CD's in to sonic stage as the atrac 64kbps format and they stay under the same heading as it should.

now today i imported the new Joe Satriani live cd both discs as atrac 64kbps advanced lossless format and they apear under the same heading in sonicstage.

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am i right in thinking because its different formats they make a new folder for the same artist?

While I can't really help with the order problem (I've had a few headaches with that myself and it requires tinkering and retransferring until it appears properly--especially with MP3 files) but I can tell you that you aren't using different formats. First off the A3000 does NOT support Atrac Advanced Lossless natively. Secondly you have to realise when you encode Atrac AL you are not encoding at the bitrate in the drop-down box! That wouldn't make any sense. Lossless encoding is usually varialble rate; and, there's no way on earth you'd ever get lossless encoding at 64kbps, LOL.

What the selection of the 64kbps ATRAC3plus thing in the drop down box does is select a second format that SS will encode in (along with the lossless encode) which will be the format that gets transferred to devices that don't support Atrac AL (note that NO device currently supports Atrac AL). So what you're doing is just transferring Atrac3plus @ 64kbps to the player, which is the same format and rate as the first album you transferred.

I know this doesn't really help your problem but it's just a clarification on how Atrac AL works.

[lodore]

it did party help because i wounded why on the devise it reported the files as just atrac 64kbps and now i know.

I hope someone can help me with two of the same artists.

i sovled it last time but I cant this time....

i know that sometimes it can be that the grammar can be one letter out so reports it as two artists.

last time it happerned my sister helped me with it but shes as uni far away lol.

other than that my nw-a3000 is my favorite toy!

lodore

Edited November 12, 2006 by lodore

[doghater2]

it did party help because i wounded why on the devise it reported the files as just atrac 64kbps and now i know.

I hope someone can help me with two of the same artists.

i sovled it last time but I cant this time....

i know that sometimes it can be that the grammar can be one letter out so reports it as two artists.

last time it happerned my sister helped me with it but shes as uni far away lol.

other than that my nw-a3000 is my favorite toy!

lodore

Hi,

I've found that artists, on the NW-A3000 are Upper and Lower case sensitive. So check if your artist is spelled exactly the same way. The NW-A3000 will see Joe S and joe S as two different artists.

Also, mind the use of the space tab. Adding an extra space behind the artist, will lead your NW-A3000 and SS to think that there are once again two different artist. This is very annoying, but what can we do?

Hope I helped,

Doghater2

[walkman_junky]

hm, i never own a A-series, but

Is it possible that you have a sort or view option as Album rather than Artist.

That's the problem with artist but if you do have problem with sorting album with various artists then this is an excenlent article

http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1820

Edited November 17, 2006 by walkman_junky

[mooghead]

The software is shit, its that simple. It will continue to frustrate and anger you for as long as you own the unit. I have given up. If the damn thing didnt look so damn good I would throw it away.