Gestion file audio SD card Fairphone 4

[Nicoventu]

Hello everyone, I ask for help about managing files in the SD card in my Fairphone 4. This happens to me: I copy audio CD albums to my PC and using USB cable I transfer it to my Fairphone 4, then when I go to see and listen to the Fairphone 4 the audio tracks of an album containing more than 9 tracks, I notice that they are copied starting from 1,10,2,3,4,5,6 etc. if there are 11 tracks … 1,10,11,2,3,4,5,6 etc. if they are 9 tracks instead no, they are from 1 to 9 Why? thank you

[urs_lesse]

Someone else might be able to provide the correct terminology for this phenomenom (alphanumerical and … ?). Basically the ordering logic will list all tracks first whose first digit is 1, so it treats them as strings of isolated cyphers, not as numbers.

Anyway, until you find a better solution, I just recommend that before you transfer the files, add a “0” to all track numbers 1 to 9 and you should be fine.

[AnotherElk]

@urs_lesse

Basically the ordering logic will list all tracks first whose first digit is 1, so it treats them as strings of isolated cyphers, not as numbers.

And before somebody asks “Well, who even comes up with something like this?” … That was the natural sorting order everywhere on computers and leading zeros were used wherever helpful, until sorting filenames got more sophisticated and learned to recognize multi-digit numbers as parts of filenames. What fun to find out whether the system you’re using does this or not .

[Nicoventu]

I tried directly from the file manager of the Fairphone 4 to rename the audio track by putting “0” from 1 to 9 and … it works! for now I will use this method. thank you and have a nice day😉