# Need help with Filename - Filename

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-filename-filename/48444
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-filename-filename/48444 "2020-04-06T15:39:24Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-filename-filename/48444/12 "2020-05-02T20:59:05Z")

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> [@ssimlai](#):
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> which tag versions does you player understand?: How to find out?

RTM? (Read the manual)

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> which sort criteria does your player offer? Don't know. Simply starts playing.

Again: see the player's documentation or try some reverse engineering.

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> do the files have something to offer to be sorted by? Yes many options.

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> do the filenames (if that is a sort criterion) follow a common pattern? Yes

Which are?

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> which file did you grab when you copied the files to the thumb drive? Is this the one out of order? Didnt understand the question

When you drag and drop files, you usually have the mouse hovering over a particular file. Is this file that does not fit in the expected order?

And a personal note: I would like to point out that it is you who has the problem, not me. So it would be in your own interest to supply as much information as possible - unless you don't care any more and you either can live with the way it is or have solved the reason why you posted.  
So anwers like

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> Yes

or

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> Yes many options

Do not help to narrow it down.  
Your initial statement

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> The player doesn’t bother about the order that I created by renaming the files as above. Rather it chose to play a different song, that too with a message - NO ID3

points into a direction where the files may be

> [@ssimlai](#):
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> good playable files.

but this says hardly anything about the tags.  
Please check the files with the utilities linked here:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

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