Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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