Sequence issues with the GWM Haval H6

[Froehn99]

Hello,

First of all, please excuse my English.

Perhaps you can help me out?

Setup:
32 GB USB flash drive
Vehicle: GWM Haval H6
Audiobook with 216 MP3 parts

Problem: It doesn't play the individual parts in the order of their numbering.

Steps I've tried:
Formatted the USB drive to FAT32.
Split the 216 parts into 3 subfolders and used two-digit numbering for the files within the directories.
e.g., 01 Author - AudiobookName.mp3
Then opened Mp3tag.
Navigated to Tools > Options > Tags > Mpeg and selected ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 for writing; disabled the other options.

The original tag was ID3v2.3 (ID3v2.3).
Selected all files.
Used the Converter menu > Tag - Filename > Format string "$num(%track%,2) %title%" > converted directly on the USB drive.
Plugged it into the car, but unfortunately, it didn't work.

Many thanks in advance.

[ohrenkino]

@Froehn99

Plugged it into the car, but unfortunately, it didn't work

I am still not sure what did not work.
Are you sure that the file name is the criterion by which the player sorts files?
Or does the player read the tag data?
If so: which tag fields have you filled?
I would suggest that you fill ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE and TRACK and then see what the player does.

Another note: I would still write UTF-16 characters as it is not sure that the player uses the same code page as your windows environment.

[arb]

Do you have any images or list of what the number order currently looks like so we can find a pattern?

If there's 216 MP3 files, you might need to use $num(%track%,3) to pad every track, for example your first subfolder going from 001 to 100 in the filenames. Potentially having 3 subfolders could also be messing with the way your car's system reads them.

As @ohrenkino says, ALBUMARTIST etc. could also have an impact on how the files are sorted.

[Froehn99]

@ohrenkino

I am still not sure what did not work.
Are you sure that the file name is the criterion by which the player sorts files?
Or does the player read the tag data?
If so: which tag fields have you filled?
I would suggest that you fill ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE and TRACK and then see what the player does.

Another note: I would still write UTF-16 characters as it is not sure that the player uses the same code page as your windows environment.

Thanks for your reply.
I’ve done some testing.
I strongly suspect that it uses the title.
The question is how I can adjust just the title ???
If I delete the tag, it doesn't know what to do at all.

The problem persists with UTF-16 (see above).

[ohrenkino]

@Froehn99

The problem persists with UTF-16 (see above).

See here about any need to use ISO-encoding:

Problems with ID3v2 tags in Unicode format?

Since version 2.33 Mp3tag supports Unicode through the whole program. Mp3tag writes ID3v2 tags in Unicode format (UTF-16) by default now, but there are still some programs, portables or car radios which have problems with ID3v2 tags stored in Unicode format (though this is specified within the ID3v2 standard). To use Mp3tag with these programs or devices, simply enable the option (x) ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 at [:mt_options:] Options > Tags > Mpeg. After that, just save the tags again by clicking […

To modify just the TITLE, try Convert>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: $num(%track%,3)_%title%

Do this only if you find that the player really sorts the files alphabetically by the data in TITLE.

[Froehn99]

I'm struggling with this English thing.
"Ohrenkino" sounds German to me.
I'll try it and give feedback

[LyricsLover]

@Froehn99

I'm struggling with this English thing.
"Ohrenkino" sounds German to me.

Du kannst im deutschprachigen Teil des Forums Deutsch / German auch Fragen auf Deutsch stellen.
Forumsteilnehmer wie ohrenkino können Dir dort auch auf Deutsch antworten.

[Froehn99]

@ohrenkino

To modify just the TITLE, try Convert>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: $num(%track%,3)_%title%

Do this only if you find that the player really sorts the files alphabetically by the data in TITLE.

@ohrenkino

To modify just the TITLE, try Convert>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: $num(%track%,3)_%title%

!!! SUCCESS !!!

That's it, Ohrenkino.

Your solution
"To modify just the TITLE, try Convert>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: $num(%track%,3)_%title%"
worked.

Thanks to everyone for the quick help, and in the future I will post my questions in the German forum.