track order should not be based on sound quality

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Martin van den Boogaard

A few of my albums contain tracks/files with different sound quality, e.g. mp3 and flac (cd quality or HD). For some reason, the rationale behind which escapes me, the tracks with the highest quality appear at the top and are played first. Why would the differences in sound quality be more important than my ordering of the tracks through the assignment of track numbers? Whats makes BluOS think that I want to hear HD first, then cd-quality, and finally mp3? Is there some switch to change this behaviour? If not, could it be created?

Regards, Martin.

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    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Likely when they were tagged, they were tagged differently. My guess is some include Disc No. and others don't.

  • Martin van den Boogaard

    Thanks for your swift reply, Tony. None of the tracks have Disc # filled. Are there other tags that are relevant to the ordering? Box? Is there documentation on the ordering within an album?

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    I have also noticed that the BluOS in the windows app orders the tracks of an album without track number (carefully removed) to some mysterious algorithm.

    It's not alphabetical nor in the sequence of the original album. Is it random???

     

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  • woodie

    Tony you are wrong.

    I have seen the same thing, lower resolution tracks are put at the end of the queue. It is bizarre logic, but clearly intentional.

    Nothing to do with tagging. See this:

    https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360051563974-Getting-files-in-the-intended-order-in-folders

    Or this:

    https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001294722-Getting-files-in-the-intended-order-in-folders

    Or many others

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Woodie..

    Thanks for reminding me if the corrected answer I posted on that thread here; https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001294722/comments/4407154381463 in response to Blair's post one up which suggests it is the Disc number and the Disc of number combined...

    https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001294722/comments/4407159437463

    As the official answer to that thread, I mentioned this thread; https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360037248874 which does go into greater detail about mismatched tags...

     

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  • woodie
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    I don't use 'Disc number' and always remove it.

    I edit my tags *very* carefully with Kid3 and/or MP3tag.

    I can assure you that the poster is 100% correct, Bluesound puts lower-resolution tracks in an album at the end of the play queue. This is a repeatable phenomena.

    I get around it by converting MP3 files to FLAC using Audacity (which has a steep but worthwhile learning curve). Of course the fidelity does not improve, but at least the tracks are correctly ordered.

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  • Martin van den Boogaard

    So, twelve days later and no progress. I haven't yet read any good reason why resolution should determine the ordering of a playlist. Maybe the people at Bluesound know why they implemented this, but instead of telling us why, we, the users, are blamed for not carefully enough managing the tags of our music. Yes, we are careful and, no, we don't want resolution-based ordering. Please remove this "feature" unless there is a very good technical reason not to. I've paid a considerable sum of money for all my Bluesound gear; now I want it to play my music the way I want to hear it.

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