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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:12:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. I'll give it a try and report back any results. I guess I'm
>>> only moderately confident as I'm not clear how the group of MP3 files
>>> keeps the original track order. Are those written into the MP3 file by
>>> the converter? Where does it get the info if I've removed the track
>>> numbers from the file names. Is it already in the FLAC files?
>>
>> It doesn't, track order is a feature of a CD, not a bunch of mp3s. If you
>> want to keep the files in track order, leave the numbers there, that's
>> what they're for.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Bothwick
>
> Then there's something going on elsewhere. Using soundconverter I
> converted a few CDs removing the track numbers from the names. I sent
> the CD over to a Windows box and played them using iTunes. I note that
> the tracks are displayed in the original order. It's possible, I
> suppose, that since the artist and title directory names are in place
> that iTunes looked up the track order from the CD database, but I
> assumed it was actually embedded in the file by soundconverter.
> soundfile-info cannot read MP3 file so I don't know what too would
> tell me that the data is in the file or not.
>
> I'll do the same experiment with your renaming and see what happens.
>
> thanks,
> Mark
Track number can be stored in the ID3 tag of MP3 files (as well as
total number of tracks on the album, and disc number for sets).