the problem is when i go to access my music in list view.
it will show and album and oraganize the songs as follow
1 - song name
10 - song name
11 - song name
12 - song name
2 - song name
3 - song name
4 - song name
can you please fix this so that i t will list them int he correct order ?
They ARE in the correct order.
You need to NAME them correctly:
01 - song name
02 - song name
03 - song name
04 - song name
10 - song name
11 - song name
12 - song name
dude i have 9,xxx songs you have any idea how long that would take?
That’s something that can be sorted with quite a simple script that you’d run recursively. Not 5 minutes to rename your colleciton.
okay so what is this script?
thezodiackllr wrote:
dude i have 9,xxx songs you have any idea how long that would take?
Not as long as you might think with a tool such as Bulk Rename Utility:
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
Might need some creative RegEx though!
Alternatively, there seem to be a number of utilities available (free and commercial) that specifically deal with MP3 tag editing and file renaming.
good solution but a bit too far on the complicated end
I’ll let you find what’s good for you if you’re using windows, but I just remembered I actually have a program on my linux desktop called audiotagtool which does tags of course, but also file names, and it does just what you want --i’ve just tested it again.
If you run windows and do not end up finding something that’s good for you, give linux a go with a live-cd, do what you need to do, you don’t need to install anything on your computer.
This program is very efficient, really.
Seems like pyrenamer could be a decent alternative, too.
Ok, with the script you would need some knowledge. But it’s not necessary to learn anything with tagtool around 
I guess what the OP wanted to say is that he expected the WD Live to apply a more modern and clever way of sorting lists of numbered files, in a way more like Microsoft’s Windows 7 does.
(it actually doesn’t matter if you precede your numbers with 0 or not, W7 will sort them correctly)
So files are actually named correctly!
Back in the past you could have argued that computers can only order lexicographically and 2 comes after 11, but today figuring out that 11 comes after 2 is a must!
And I decided to comment on this matter because renaming is something similar to re-encoding in a way.
If the player is clever you don’t need to touch you library.
For me, at least, re-encoding is simply a dumb solution. So renaming is kinda stupid too.
Stupid or not, renaming is 100% faster than waiting for a fix from WD on an issue that is likely near the bottom of their to-do list. ;)
I would love to see more intelligent handling of file names; hopefully this is on the to-do list somewhere…
yeah i have already went through and corretly tagged all of my songs with mp3 tag.
so i just dropped my whole collections in to the program and retagged them
