Is there good way I can play music in alphabetical order based on filename on OS X? I have the tracknumber first on all of my music so that this wouldn't be an issue and suddenly it is. Both iTunes and Whamb reorder the music in some unknown way.
(And don't even get me started on iTunes streaming: there, it organizes solely by filename, which means if I stream one album then another, the second album's tracks are interlaced with the first one. So I have to remember to clear the playlist every time I load new music.)
My roommates laughed at me for using mpg123 but it's the only software I can find that isn't broken for me. :(
(And don't even get me started on iTunes streaming: there, it organizes solely by filename, which means if I stream one album then another, the second album's tracks are interlaced with the first one. So I have to remember to clear the playlist every time I load new music.)
My roommates laughed at me for using mpg123 but it's the only software I can find that isn't broken for me. :(
On my Debian machine at home:
trout:~% apt-cache search id3 | grep '^id3'
id3 - An ID3 Tag Editor
id3ed - Another id3 tag editor
id3ren - id3 tagger and renamer
id3tool - A command line editor for id3 tags.
id3v2 - A command line id3v2 tag editor
There's a "mpgtx" program in fink that looks hopeful, though...
There are a couple of perl modules for dealing with ID3 v1 and v2 tags, if you can bear using perl! ;)
$ fink apropos id3 Information about 3729 packages read in 22 seconds. easytag 0.31-1 Viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags id3lib3.7 3.7.13-6 Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 ... id3lib3.7-dev 3.7.13-6 Development files for id3lib id3lib3.7-doc 3.7.13-6 Documentation for id3lib id3lib3.7-sh... 3.7.13-6 Shared libraries for manipulating ID3v1 a... id3lib4 3.8.3-13 Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 ... id3lib4-dev 3.8.3-13 Development files for id3lib id3lib4-doc 3.8.3-13 Documentation for id3lib *FIXME* id3lib4-shlibs 3.8.3-13 Shared libraries for manipulating ID3v1 a... id3tool 1.2-1 Command line editor for id3 tags id3v2 0.1.11-1 Command line id3 (v1 and v2) tag editor ktagit 0.4-23 ID3 Tag Editor & Renamer for ogg & mp3 libid3tag 0.15.0b-3 ID3 tag manipulation library libid3tag-sh... 0.15.0b-3 ID3 tag manipulation library mp3info 0.8.4-1 Read and modify the id3 tags of mp3 files mp3info-x11 0.8.4-1 Read and modify the id3 tags of mp3 files-stevej
Surely the best scheme for you would be “artist - album - tracknumber - title.format”, so that when you load multiple albums they cluster together in order? Or did you rely on your software also sorting by directory names and make subdirectories for artist and album?
Personally, I don't include track numbers in my filenames at all. However, we've discussed before how I don't value entire albums whereas you do. I still find it quite strange, but I do see where you are coming from! ;)
One of these days I'll get around to doing what I've said I will do forever, which is to shun filenames and ID3 tags completely in favour of a massively cross-linked relational database and an app which can generate EXT-M3U playlists based on SQL-like queries. The problem, of course, is the big job of getting all the data in there in the first place — I can't use the ID3 tags or filenames for the data or there'll be no benefit over my current mess.
Otherwise, XMMS / WinAMP don't mess with the playlist, so I can add directories one after the other and have it sort right.
When i first got poddy from Jens, i didn't have a version of OSX capable of running an iTunes that would sync up to the iPod.
So i used gnupod (commandline perl) until i got a copy of 10.2 =)