# Song Order in a Folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [June 28, 2024, 9:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153 "2024-06-28T09:05:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/21 "2024-06-28T10:49:05Z")
Here is the screenshot of the extended tags:
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/22 "2024-06-28T10:59:16Z")
OK, so there are some fields.
Just a footnote: BAND is a user-defined field and should be ALBUMARTIST. TYER is also a user-defined field that looks like the ID3 token TYER which MP3tag maps to YEAR but it should appear as YEAR in MP3tag.
You would now have to find out what the player uses as preferred order:
The filename?
The title (alphabetically)
Track number (ascending)
Or does it group ALBUM by ALBUMARTIST by TRACK?
It is always best to have the same number of fields filled with data. If you have some files that have data only in TITLE and ARTIST, then some players take these files as coming from the album "unknown" by the artist "unknown" - even though they do not belong together.
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/23 "2024-06-28T11:36:22Z")
So I have filled in the Album, Artist, year, Kept title & Track, and this is the order it plays in on the USB:
1. Kapetan
ten - Bucemis
eleven - Ustaj
twelve - Kralja
1. Kraljevo
2. Setnja
3. Ersko
4. Moravac
5. Laznicko
6. Pajdusko
7. Pembe
8. Vrti
Nearly in the right order.... 10-12 need to be on the end.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/24 "2024-06-28T11:45:20Z")
Now try it without the numbers in your TITLE, like
```auto
Kapetan
Kraljevo
Setnja
...
Ustaj
Kralja
```
or you can try it with
```auto
01. Kapeta
02. Kraljevo
03. Setnja
...
11. Ustaj
12. Kralja
```
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/25 "2024-06-28T11:58:25Z")
yes, did that with the number 01, 02... and it plays in the same incorrect order as above on the USB on the AEG
essentially its 10, 11 & 12 need to be at the end.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/26 "2024-06-28T12:01:04Z")
What is the result if you write your TITLE without numbers but save the TRACK number for every song instead?
For example:
TITLE: `Ustaj`
TRACK: `11`
TITLE: `Kralja`
TRACK: `12`
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/27 "2024-06-28T12:02:13Z")
along the same line:
could you take care that the data in TRACK has always 2 digits: 01 ... 12 and not just 1 .. 12?
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/28 "2024-06-28T12:02:18Z")
let me try... with the track under the #?
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/29 "2024-06-28T12:09:32Z")
tried with the track number as 2 digits, that played the same. will take the number out of the title.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/30 "2024-06-28T12:11:43Z")
> [@Superkid](#):
>
> let me try... with the track under the #?
 
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/31 "2024-06-28T12:29:10Z")
Hi.... have made all the Track numbers 2 digits - order was the same.
Have changed the Filename to 2 digits also. this has changed the order to:
4 Ersko
5 Moravac
6 Laznicko
7 Pajdusko
8 Pembe
9 Vrti
10 Bucemis
11 Ustaj
12 Kralja
1 Kapetan
2 Kraljevo
3 Setnja
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/32 "2024-06-28T12:29:57Z")
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/33 "2024-06-28T12:34:46Z")
In your second answer in this topic you wrote:
> [@Superkid](#):
>
> This has worked before.
You could have a look at those tracks (appearing in correct order) how they where filled.
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/34 "2024-06-28T12:40:42Z")
I tend to use the same tracks and place in a different folder for each show, and use MP3Tag to sort the track order. It seems once there is one tag, and a track number associated with it (or something) its then not allowing me to 'fix' a running order.
It uisually works out, this time I have been trying this since 9am this morning and 4 hrs later its still the same.
Its interesting the 2nd set of dances 7-10 are always together. and the others seem to be floating around.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/35 "2024-06-28T12:44:15Z")
A last attempt could be that the player really does not care about any tags for filenames but takes the order in which the files are written to the USB stick.
for that:
In the explorer navigate to the folder with files.
Right-click on the folder
Select "Open command shell here"
In the then opened command shell window type in
`dir`
and press Enter
check in which order the files appear: is that the same as the player shows them?
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/36 "2024-06-28T13:02:52Z")
Thank you. I don't have 'Open Command Shell Here' when i right click on the folder?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/37 "2024-06-28T13:16:51Z")
I have it here in the right-click menu of the WIndows Explorer\>Further Options (W11)
The but last one, reading "Eingabeaufforderung"
This is what an Internet search reveals:
How do I open the Command Prompt here in Windows Explorer?
To open a Command Prompt window to any folder, **Shift+right-click the folder in File Explorer and then choose "Open command window here."**
If that does not help you please search for yourself - as this is no real MP3tag issue.
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### Author:  [@Superkid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Superkid)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/38 "2024-06-28T13:25:46Z")
Yes, did it, apologies, took me a couple of attempts -
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/39 "2024-06-28T13:26:48Z")
that looks like the powershell and not like the comand shell.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-order-in-a-folder/65153/40 "2024-06-28T13:28:32Z")
(just type CMD at the above `> _` prompt and press Enter to get the command window)
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