I have an "album" I created with hundreds of songs. I do this so I can use a random play. In MP3Tag I see the numbers sequentially, no repeats. When I look at the folder in WIN11 File Explorer I see duplicate tracks and the track number doesn't always match the one in File Explorer. It doesn't seem …

[image] ArthurKotb: but the WIN numbers have some duplicates Yes - this is due to the leading zeros in 3-digit numbers. If you remove the leading zeros in the field track, windows and the decent applications will show the same numbers.

It's a WIndows Explorer problem, not an MP3tag problem: [image] Padding Track Num, Scrambled. Support Maybe. Hmm, few days ago there was a rather similar request like yours now. Looking at your pictures all looks fine with focus to the filenames. When looking at the pro…

Microsoft know this since - at least - 13 years and "Windows 7" https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/mp3-tags-specifically-the-tags-are-not-correct/625737c9-8497-443b-a2a7-3d7b02e513e2 and Microsoft was not able to fix it since then, including "Windows 11".

Wow, that old, huh? Well, good to know. It does seem weird that you see different track numbers depending on which tool you use to access them. They must be writing to 2 different places in the metadata. Thanks for the quick response.

[image] ArthurKotb: They must be writing to 2 different places in the metadata. Nope. It is how the Windows Explorer interprets the data in the field TRACK - and then it sorts the files accordingly. you see in the linked thread how a decimal and an octal number would lead to the same displa…

-In File Explorer it says track 8 -In Groove/New Media Player it says track 8 -In VLC it says track 10 -Opening the file in Notepad, at the top, after the title is track 10 "TPE1 ÿþV e n t u r e s TPE2 ÿþV a r i o u s TSSE ÿþL a v f 5 8 . 2 9 . 1 0 0 TIT2 # ÿþW a l k , D o…

File Explorer and Groove Music are both original Microsoft applications that use both the same faulty code base. As the other programs interpret the track value correctly, you see the same as in MP3tag.

Most of the track numbers are correct. In this "album" I created there are 593 songs. The track numbers for WIN and MP3 both run to 593, but the WIN numbers have some duplicates

Well that fixes my problem! Thank you very much :grinning: The song I've been working with now shows the same number track that MP3Tag has shown all along.

Auto number track not always matching WIN 11 File Explorer

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ohrenkino August 1, 2024, 2:26pm 2

It's a WIndows Explorer problem, not an MP3tag problem:

Workaround: do not use 3-digit-numbers with leading zeros as Windows Explorer interprets these as octal (and not decimal) values