MDI niggles

[Frankenstrat]

Coreying, I appreciate your response. The MP3s I've been playing are not commercially available, they are posted on a music website that I frequent, so the naming conventions and ID tags of the MP3s don't necessarily conform to any particular standard. They are filled in by the artist and may or may not contain album/artist information in the appropriate fields. I would have to go through each MP3 in turn and edit that information.

So far I've copied 40 or so MP3s onto a USB-pen drive and had them play in alphabetical order. I've erased them and copied them again in random order to see what order they play in second time around. That's essentially it. I was reporting my findings for the benefit of others who may be interested, not to display my ignorance nor my perceived pedantry.

As for being computer savvy, please don't presume that I'm not. I see a problem and will endeavour to solve it to my satisfaction.

If you don't wish me to further post in this thread PM me.

[Karlosovic]

As for being computer savvy, please don't presume that I'm not

I'm not trying to be rude mate, but there's no presumption on anyone's part - it's plain as day from comments like:

I've erased them and copied them again in random order to see what order they play in second time around

Seriously... the order in which you copy something to a USB stick, hard disk or iPod makes no difference at all. I'm not criticising your investigative process, it's just that most people already knew the answer. And told you


Edit: Sorry, one other thing.

...posted on a music website that I frequent, so the naming conventions and ID tags of the MP3s don't necessarily conform to any particular standard...

I would have to go through each MP3 in turn and edit that information

You're telling me!
Until recently, with the growing popularity of sites like itunes where the organisation selling the music also populates the tags, most mp3 collections required the owner to manuall edit all the tags.
I would hazzard a guess that a large percentage of mp3/wma collections even now have been collated from innumerable sources - all of which would have different standards for the file names and tags.... if they include that information at all.
The point is - yes you have to set up the tags if you want to use that functionality. Again, that's what everyone does if they're serious about their music collection

[Frankenstrat]

I'm not trying to be rude mate, but there's no presumption on anyone's part - it's plain as day from comments like:

Karlosovic, why would you presume computer illiteracy on my part based on that comment? I have no need to parade my qualifications in public, nor would I adopt an arrogant attitude like yours.

Seriously... the order in which you copy something to a USB stick, hard disk or iPod makes no difference at all. I'm not criticising your investigative process, it's just that most people already knew the answer. And told you

Page 21 of the RCD310 manual: Playlists in the formats PLU, M3U and WPL (are supported). Now so far as I'm aware, and unless you can tell me otherwise, a playlist will play in sequential order. Care to refute that?

[Corey_R]

Cool. Go with the playlist then. That will play in whatever order you put the songs in the playlist.

[G-rig]

Coreying, I appreciate your response. The MP3s I've been playing are not commercially available, they are posted on a music website that I frequent, so the naming conventions and ID tags of the MP3s don't necessarily conform to any particular standard. They are filled in by the artist and may or may not contain album/artist information in the appropriate fields. I would have to go through each MP3 in turn and edit that information.

So far I've copied 40 or so MP3s onto a USB-pen drive and had them play in alphabetical order. I've erased them and copied them again in random order to see what order they play in second time around. That's essentially it. I was reporting my findings for the benefit of others who may be interested, not to display my ignorance nor my perceived pedantry.

As for being computer savvy, please don't presume that I'm not. I see a problem and will endeavour to solve it to my satisfaction.

If you don't wish me to further post in this thread PM me.

Why don't you try the following (which has probably laready been suggested):

1. organising the albums/tracks into folders (I like my folders arranged with one in each folder named 'Artist-Album Title-Year') or
3. Create a playlist file or
2. Download an ID3 Tag and Rename program which saveas a lot of time editing file tag data manually ( I use CD-Tag).

[Karlosovic]

*sigh*
To put it simply - if you're testing how something works, it's because you don't already know. The specific example of testing which order you copy files to a USB stick Vs the order they play addresses some fundementals of the topic. Therefore - you don't know the fundementals (not computer savvy)

Yes a playlist will play in the order specified by the playlist. That's the whole point of a playlist.
You were talking about the order you copy files to a USB stick. That isn't a playlist, that's the order you copied files
What can i say? apples aren't oranges

Cool. Go with the playlist then

+1

[Corey_R]

Ok guys - I think we've covered the current discussion enough. Frankenstrat, please let us know how you go with the playlists. I'd like to know which program you use to create the playlist, and the playlist format you use, and how that goes with the MDI.

[Kwoka]

Hey guys was browsing vwvortex forum and there seems to be a new update for the skipping songs problem and some other little bug fixes.

Here's the link to the forum:
MDI / iPod Skipping Update!

[Redman]

Installed this morning - all good and does fix the skipping problem

[Kwoka]

Installed this morning - all good and does fix the skipping problem

Glad to see it works. Haven't updated myself yet as i can't find my USB.

[G-rig]

Hey guys was browsing vwvortex forum and there seems to be a new update for the skipping songs problem and some other little bug fixes.

Here's the link to the forum:
MDI / iPod Skipping Update!

What version is this, same as on Mav's site?

[Kwoka]

To be honest i'm not sure it might be a newer version as it was just posted 2-3 days ago.

[G-rig]

I updated the MDI software from the link in the vortex thread. It only displayed something to do with the update very briefly but assume it worked as now songs start playing at track 1 not from track 2 (ie works properluy when hitting play on the folder level now).

Still gaps between the tracks but doesn't seem to pause/skip at the start of them like it was doing.

[Corey_R]

Well, that's a step in the right direction

[ozgti]

Not sure about the pause at the start of tracks, it did it once or twice since I updated it, but the playlists remain after start up which is the main thing I hated with the MDI!