First time posting on a support forum so forgive my manners.
I just bought a crappy cheap mp3 player and I’m loading my music into it, but I’m having an issue with 2 groups of albums specifically. Both are sets of albums using Roman numerals to seperate them. They are BROCKHAMPTON’s SATURATION I/II/II and Johnny Cash’s American Remains I-VI. In both cases, I have changed album name, album artist, tried messing around with discs etc to differentiate between them, with all the sings in relevant different folders. But no matter what I am getting one big album called SATURATION and one big list called American Remains containing all the songs from these collections despite them being different albums.
I hope this was clear and thanks in advance everyone!
Try the following:
Set the ALBUMARTIST to be the same for all Saturation albums e.g. (only) Brockhampton.
Set ALBUM to be Saturation 1, Saturation 2 and 3 - as appropriate for the albums.
The question is, though: does the
sort by tag data or by something else?
Something else could be: filename or order by which the files got stored, or data in V1 tags.
Good players take the tag data from ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, TRACK to group files.
I made the change suggested and the MP3 player is still showing them all under SATURATION when I try to play them.
On the player itself - it’s a ZAQE X20 Digital Player, I don’t know how to tell exactly how it sorts. For other albums I had issues where the order track order did not always give the right order so I changed titles to 001 - Track Name, etc to fix this.
At the moment the SATURATION tracks aren’t formatted like this but they are showing up in a big list regardless, while the Johnny Cash ones have the [001 - Name] format but are showing all of the 001s from American Remains I-VI, then the 002 from each album etc.
Looks to me like the player does not read tag data.
You could try it with renamed files. For that use Convert>Tag-Filename
Format string: %albumartist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%
So - the tracks are now playing in the right order with this title format, but are still appearing in the same folder which is mymain issue. So there is one folder showing on the player called SATURATION I which contains all the tracks from I,II and III. For other tracks it has read second/featured artists and genres as well so this may indicate that it does read tags? Though I’m not sure.
I also tried changing the albums from Saturation I to Saturation 1 and so on, and the same issue.
I then tried 1 SATURATION, 2 SATURATION and this worked - they are showing as these seperate albums. Maybe the player only reads the first word and then decides they are all the same album? So I then tried SATURATION_1, SATURATION_2 which did not work and they all ended up in SATURATION_1. Same with SATURATION1, SATURATION2, SATURATION3. So the only thing which has worked so far was changing the start of the album name which is really annoying! Any ideas?
No.
You have to try it locally to see what your player likes and what it does not like.
Once you found a way, then MP3tag will most certainly have the functions to avoid tedious manual changes. Do not hesitate to ask if you need further assistance.
No worries - thanks for the help. In case anyone ends up needing this - the only thing that worked for me was renaming the albums to have the number first (1 SATURATION, 2 SATURATION etc). Annoying but it works at least. Thanks again!
Does this player use some form of Android OS? And does it allow you to install music player apps of your choice? Perhaps that is worth exploring if it is an option. Many 3rd party music players use tags and are much more robust I how they sort for you.
