respect album track order

[geofstro]

I understand where you're coming from.

Or are you turning off transcoding for FLAC, and thus allowing the pure, raw FLAC file to stream for at least some of your user's Players?

This is what I'm doing ...and yes, I'm doing everything you've advised already and tried all the external players.

I've settled on XBMC as my preferred external player, because it can talk directly to Subsonic and can be remote controlled with an IOS device.

Alternatively I also like to stream from the Subsonic server to the IOS device using iSub. I'll try streaming some high-res flac's again with XBMC. My "users" are just myself, my wife and daughter.

Even if I manage to get XBMC running on a mac to stream the high-res stuff satisfactorily, iSub would not be able to support them, for sure, hence the need for a down sampled duplicate of these files.

[manwithaplan]

I use iSub every day of my life, both the GA versions and the Beta versions. My iPhone can stream from high rez FLAC just fine, of course it gets transcoded to MP3 server-side, and then delivered to my iPhone. iSub does also support streaming of FLAC natively too, but to be effective, requires very good connectivity, either LTE or quality wifi for remote streaming.

Again, no need to create duplicate copies of files at all.

[geofstro]

I don't want to do any transcoding to MP3 or any lossy format, ever. To me lossy = evil

...and I honestly don't mind duping these files, for streaming purposes. For ultimate playback when the machine serving the files is directly connected to a good system, I'd rather play completely uncompressed wav or aiff files, because then no transcoding needs to be done via the software player.

I appreciate your being helpful and I know it sounds strange; but I really don't have a problem going about it this way. My only problem was when I couldn't get the track order respected, as per my initial post. For me now, the problem is solved.

Thanks again,

geoff

PS, that's one mean machine you're running Subsonic on. I'd like to try it on a machine at that level one day. I'm running mine on a lowly Synology 710+ NAS.

[grant420]

Track numbers should NOT prepend the title of each track in the actual tags of the file. In the filename itself, track numbers are usually desired, I use them all the time. But in the tags, the Title is the Title, that's it. No track number. Now, in the Track number/total tag, yes, you should have Track 1 of 8, Track 2 of 8, etc. If you have these tags properly, then your music displays just fine. I can vouch for that - 4.7 works perfectly for me, I never get alphabetized listing of tracks on an album, because I tag properly. I can only imagine the headache if you do not.

I am using Subsonic almost exclusively for streaming to my phone to listen while driving.
I ripped my collection using EAC, then later encoded to mp3 using mkwACT. Each album is comprised of a folder with tracks inside. Tracks are named as follows:
## TrackName.mp3
where ## is the track number.

Can anyone please describe to me the best way to apply tags so that subsonic will pick up the correct track order (I'd like to have genre in there, too)? Ideally, I would use software that picks up the track name and number from the file name and applies this info to the tag. I don't mind manually adding artist and / or genre but hope to avoid manually adding everything, which I can do now.

Thanks!

Grant

[grant420]

A quick Google for this revealed a method using WinAmp to Auto-Tag. I'll try that.