I'm hoping someone might be able to assist me . I'm currently transferring all of my CDs to SD card so I can play them in my Octavia as it doesn't have a CD player, but I have an album naming and ordering problem that i just can't fathom. I've transferred everything to the cards without a problem and when I view the cards on the laptop they are in the correct order (EG by Artist/band name) and the group/album name is correct, but when I put the cards into the SD 2 slot and view them in media on the stereo, the albums are in a random order with some having different names. Any ideas please? 

Carrying on from where we were up to.

 

On your computer look at the file for a track. In windows media player for example you can right click and search for file location and go to it. If you already know how to list the tracks in windows Right click on the track, and click on "properties" you then get  a box with general details with the file name (usually the title of the song). The top line of the box has options to look at "security" "Details" "previous versions" if you click on "details" This shows the actual entries in description and Media in the meta data.

 

For the tracks that you say show something different on your computer to what the car says. You may be able to see where the car gets it's info from.

 

As an example if you changed the file name on the general box the meta data would not change.

 

What you are experiencing tends to happen when the user creates a folder on their computer and gives it the Artist name, then puts folders within the folder for the artists albums.Then drops files with the tracks on into those folders  that have been ripped from cds and asking Windows  media player to locate album info and album covers  from the internet. WMP sometimes finds the wrong album for the data

 

 

Edited 7 October, 20241 yr by Stonekeeper

Hi,

Thanks for your reply and instructions. I tried that, but on albums that I know have changed the name, it's not showing a previous title. Hopefully you can see what I mean from the attached image.  

Cheers

The previous versions tab is not for that purpose I don't think.

 

I have amended many and not resulted in a change there.

 

Did you see what was wrong?

 

The screen shot looks like the "folder" properties" not the track

Edited 7 October, 20241 yr by Stonekeeper

Thanks again. The track names are OK, it's the album names that are causing the problem.  

 

8 hours ago, TimGoddard said:

Thanks again. The track names are OK, it's the album names that are causing the problem.  

 

For example?

 

Looking at the screenshot you've posted above you have both the band name and album name as the folder name. This is not how you'd ordinarily do it. Under Music (on Windows), you'd have a band subfolder, then in that subfolders you'd have one subfolder for each album. E.g.:

 

Music

   |

   +-> The Who

             |

             +-> Live in Amsterdam

             |

             +-> Woodstock 1969

   |

   +-> The Rolling Stones

             |

             +-> Sticky Fingers

 

etc...

1 hour ago, HappySam said:

 

For example?

 

Looking at the screenshot you've posted above you have both the band name and album name as the folder name. This is not how you'd ordinarily do it. Under Music (on Windows), you'd have a band subfolder, then in that subfolders you'd have one subfolder for each album. E.g.:

 

Music

   |

   +-> The Who

             |

             +-> Live in Amsterdam

             |

             +-> Woodstock 1969

   |

   +-> The Rolling Stones

             |

             +-> Sticky Fingers

 

etc...

This is exactly how all the music on the SD card I use in my Amundsen MIB2 is formatted.

7 hours ago, HappySam said:

 

For example?

 

Looking at the screenshot you've posted above you have both the band name and album name as the folder name. This is not how you'd ordinarily do it. Under Music (on Windows), you'd have a band subfolder, then in that subfolders you'd have one subfolder for each album. E.g.:

 

Music

   |

   +-> The Who

             |

             +-> Live in Amsterdam

             |

             +-> Woodstock 1969

   |

   +-> The Rolling Stones

             |

             +-> Sticky Fingers

 

etc...

I tried adding the band name to the folder as last ditch attempt to correct the order as it appears on the stereo. They were originally as you have your folders and I was still having the naming and order problem. 

44 minutes ago, TimGoddard said:

I tried adding the band name to the folder as last ditch attempt to correct the order as it appears on the stereo. They were originally as you have your folders and I was still having the naming and order problem. 

 

You still haven't given an example of exactly what the problem is 🤷‍♂️

 

ETA; a pic of the windows folder in Details view (so it shows the track number) and infotainment screen showing the problem would help.

Edited 8 October, 20241 yr by HappySam

 

1 hour ago, TimGoddard said:

 

 

check the contents of the folder

 

and check track data as earlier described

OK, so the individual tracks have the name of the album that's showing on the car stereo, not what the album is named in windows media player, or the music folder on my laptop. Does that mean going through each track to correct it? Thanks again.  

I don't know how you ripped the tracks, but it's worth doing it again with proper name formatting. 

It'll be quicker than renaming each individually. 

It might be worth checking the files held on your computer first. Assuming you didn't rip them straight to the usb stick

 

Then redo the usb stick . A folder for the artist and a folder within it for each album.

 

My preference would be a First folder with "music" as it's title as the first after F:

 

F: Music

 

like @HappySam suggested

    

             

 

 

I've just checked the files on my laptop in music and media player. They have the same problem, so it doesn't seem to be the ripping process from laptop to sd card. Very odd. I will have a play and see if I can get around it. Many thanks for help. Much appreciated.  

How did the files get on your laptop?

23 minutes ago, JD52 said:

I don't know how you ripped the tracks, but it's worth doing it again with proper name formatting. 

It'll be quicker than renaming each individually. 

I ripped the tracks directly from cd into Windows media player. I then ripped the albums from media player and directly from the music file on my laptop. I did this originally without editing any artist or album name. I only started changing the names when I first encountered the naming problem on the car stereo. Within Windows, I don't have this problem. 

Just now, JD52 said:

How did the files get on your laptop?

With an external usb cd player.

I used Fairstars CD Ripper to do all of my cds(>300 albums).

It allows you to configure how the tracks and albums are stored.

It also has a link to a database that will recognise your album.

After testing a couple of cds, I had the naming down ok.

Oh right. I will give that a try. Thanks for the recommendation.  

I just use Windows Media Player to rip from CD to HDD and then mp3tag to add album art to every file.

 

Then I just copy the whole artist/album folder structure from HDD to the SD card.

18 minutes ago, PetrolDave said:

I just use Windows Media Player to rip from CD to HDD and then mp3tag to add album art to every file.

 

Then I just copy the whole artist/album folder structure from HDD to the SD card.

I have been using windows media player, but that is what's caused all the naming problems. I've used cd ripper that JD52 suggested and that has solved the problem. 

32 minutes ago, TimGoddard said:

I have been using windows media player, but that is what's caused all the naming problems.

It is possible to setup WMP to do the ripping correctly, I've been using WMP since 2005 to rip CDs to SD card for use in my VAG vehicles (Audi S4, Audi RS4, Octavia 3 Elegance & Octavia 3 L&K).