[volt11]

I'm running into this issue now, too. I find that if you pick the album from the Folder view, it plays in the original order. The problem, though, is that the Folder View is anything but alphabetical to actually find the album you want. As has been pointed out, when playing from "Album" view, and presumably the others, it plays in alphabetical order. Now this is a good example of a computer programmer who should be shot! ;-) (I'm kidding... sort of... OK shot with a paintball.) I know all of these ripped tracks have ID3 tags, too, so I'm not even sure what would solve it, IF you wanted to create new rips of everything you own, which of course I don't.

I hope GM pays attention to this, and that's it's something that can be fixed with a new software update, because they've taken their beautiful, new, state-of-the-art HDD/USB system and made it more annoying than usable where track order is concerned. PLEASE FIX, PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU!!!....

 

[volt11]

I decided to call the Volt Advisory team today. Being a Sunday, my guy didn't have much info for me. A few things to try. But yeah Mark Z, if that link is any indicator, this is a system-wide issue that needs to be addressed in a future software update.

Fingers Crossed. In the meantime, I guess I'm going to have to start sticking a number in front of my songs.

All of my tracks are ripped to a file name that includes the track number before the track name, and they still play in alphabetical order of the track title, which is obviously being taken from the ID3 tags. Not good.

 

[volt11]

There are a few bulk ID3 editors out there. I may have to spend money. on the other side, one could highlight all the music you want to copy, while inside itunes, edit info, and then delete all the titles. Itunes won't work properly then, so you'll have to make a copy of your music, change your music library to that copy, do the work, and then change your library back. Pain in the ass, but doable, and not one-by-one. I'll try it soon and keep everyone posted on how it goes.

It's a reasonable idea, but I am NOT going to edit every song title in ID3 from the thousands of songs I've ripped. Unless there's a bulk editor that will work (like I use a bulk conversion tool called "Switch" from NCH software, but it doesn't let you modify the ID3 fields during conversion), this approach is a non-starter for me. What I think is really in order here is a mass-appeal from the community to get GM to fix the software so we can set a preference for "Track Order" in the configuration menu.

I have something of a line where I can MAYBE reach the Volt brand quality manager inside GM with this request. If I do, I will let you all know what I find out, but it could be a while.

 

[volt11]

This needs to be fixed.
Whats the best way (nicely) to provide this input to GM? They need to hear that this is NOT acceptable to their customers.

Stilgar

What makes me less than optimistic is that there seems to be the same problem across the GM lineup, so I doubt we'd be the first people complaining about it.

 

[volt11]

Okay, for people looking for an easy way to retag their MP3s for better use on the GM infotainment system here is my experience. I used MP3 Tag Studio, which you can search for on Google. It is shareware so if you find it useful please donate, but it has full functionality as downloaded. I suggest making a backup of your media library before retagging the files.

Once the MP3 Tag Studio is installed, run the program. Choose the directory where the MP3 files are located under the working directory dialog located in the the top left area of the main interface. In the lower half of the interface choose the tab named "Direct tag manipulation." On the left bottom side check the "Advanced mode" check box.

In the bottom middle section there are fields to manipulate the tags. In the first box enter: "<Album>-<TrackNr>-<Title>". In the second field enter "<Title>". This setting should reset the track title tag to include the album name followed by the track number and then the original track title. Once the above is set, check "Include subdirs" for it to include all the sub-directories of your music directory and then click "Execute". Be aware that if you execute the retagging a second time it will prepend the album name and track number a second time to the track title so only perform the operation once (a good reason to create a backup of your music files).

That should be it. Good luck.

Thanks very much, yblaser. I haven't tried it on the Volt yet but it seems to do the tagging that should work!

Once suggestion, I don't think you need to include the Album name in the Track Title. So I'm doing "<TrackNr>-<Title>" mapped to "<Title>".

 

[volt11]

Thanks volt11. Your suggestion is actually the first thing I tried. It works well if you want to pick your music by album name. If you pick by artist it does not give you an album submenu so the albums are interleved by track number. I had a hard time remembering all the album names of the artist I was interested in when picking music, so I went with the naming convention I suggested. Not optimal in terms of track title length but it kinda works. The program seems really quite powerful in its tagging ability. I haven't full explored all the cability it offers so there might be a better way to tag.

Hmm, I see your point. The bottom line is they really need to fix this interface. In the meantime, I'm going to going with your exact suggestion.