russellf Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Hi, I have a B-Max with Sync. It works really well, apart from one small problem. When playing albums from the USB stick the system plays the tracks in alphabetical order, rather than the proper track order. Of course how 'important' this is depends on the album !! However, I would like it to play them how they were originally produced. Does anyone know if this is possible? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnis Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 There is one way that would definitely work, and that is to name all the tracks with their track number first. For example, track number one on the CD would be named "01 ..." and so on. Could be very time consuming if you have a lot of tracks, but its guaranteed to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 +1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnem_uk Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Found this link... seems to cover it.... http://fordsyncforum.com/topic/1381-setting-up-the-usb-flash-drive/ I agree with the comments there in that the person that programmed the system was a complete idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I desperately suffer from this problem! the link above doesn't work. no way to update sync either. if anyone has found a solution, please share it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Anyone want a free head unit and sync module? Dammed thing is awful :( As Russel said, sync plays all our music alphabetically. I've emailed Ford again about this and will post there response here for you guys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Anyone want a free head unit and sync module? Dammed thing is awful :( As Russel said, sync plays all our music alphabetically. I've emailed Ford again about this and will post there response here for you guys. Hello Willy and thank you for your responce. Yes indeed Sync plays tracks alphabetically, but it's not really Ford's fault since Sync is developed and supported by Microsoft. What's also the question is why then there's a sorting option (*/A-H) which does sort tracs but sync still plays them alphabetically... can't tell you how frustrating it was to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 So you have tried numbering tracks in order? I had this problem with my (self fitted) Ford USB MP3 interface and using my PC I made sure that the file names were numbered in order and also that the correct track order was also added, works fine now. Worth trying before chucking your system. Single click on the file and then edit the track number at the bottom of the window. Right click the file to rename the track with the number prefix. (sorry if eggs are being sucked here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 So you have tried numbering tracks in order? lol, i've even tried ordering them with abc instead of 123!! but come on... all my collection is ordered like this (see screenshot), i don't imagine how else one can keep a collection. Single click on the file and then edit the track number at the bottom of the window.Right click the file to rename the track with the number prefix. thank you for trying to help, but it's not it. it's a known SYNC problem which i believe can be solved with SYNC Firmware update, but there seems to be no way to update it if you're outside the US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Yeah stoney I did eventually do that and it does work but as you can guess if you select play all it then played all the track 1s. All I want sync to do is play my music in folder and track order aaahh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Numbered the folders as well? Sent from my S5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Numbered the folders as well? Sent from my S5 Erme no I never thought of that. Just need to update a few hundred folders now ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Labour of love. Only needs doing once ;) Sent from my S5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 my SYNC doesn't play "folder after folder" at all - it only plays one folder and then repeats playback from the first track; same with playlists. but this is not the problem. the problem is that there is no possibility to play tracks in their numerical order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillBox Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I just stumbled upon this problem myself so thought I would add some solutions for anyone else who's bugged by this. There are two solutions - simple and slightly more complex. Simple: Go into Windows, open up your USB to see the tracks within a folder. View the files as "view/details" rather than icons, to bring up a list of files with columns of meta-tag info to the right (track number etc). If you can't see "title" as a column, right click on the headings towards the top of the window, tick "title" in the options list, so you can see the titles in a column to the right of the filename. Your task it to now delete all the title-tags. By doing this, the SYNC in your Fiesta will look to the file name next instead, which is more likely to include track numbers at the beginning. You can delete the titles in bulk by selecting them all, right clicking, going to properties, then deleting the "title" box. Complex (actually more simple once you get into it): Download "MP3TAG". Its free and simple to download/install/use. Open a directory - choose your MP3 folder. Highlight all the files, then choose "Filename to Tag" as an option from the little boxes above. It will ask you for what tag to use - choose "title". It will then paste all the filenames (which usually include track numbers) into the Title field. Voila! Hope that helps. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microwaveman1000 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I have the same problem today and found this video which worked for me. It was reasonably straight forward, and I now have 32G of music on a £5 usb memory with playlists for all situations - works like a dream and you don't have to rename all the files. Note - I couldn't get it to work with media player - but winamp worked a treat. BTW - does anyone else find it annoying that you can't use voice commands to select the Radio anymore- my old 2011 model had it but the 2014 dosen't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smneal Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 @WillBox Good answer. Sorted mine now. Used the MP3TAG option. Only thing is now the number is part of the title, but I can live with that! Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Been playing with MP3Tag tonight and can 100% confirm that as long as you have a track number in the file name and remove the title data for all files then they will play in order just fine. I like too that the program lets you add the correct album art far more accurately and easily than with the likes of Windows Media Player etc. It's also handy for stripping out all the extra crap data that amazon add to any purchased MP3 files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilianobv Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Hey, I have a Focus and I have been struggling with the same problem. I use mostly the USB storage to my music, and then one day I realized one artist plays in order, then I thought instantly that it has to be something about ID tags, I haven't found a solution but I will post the properties displayed for the artist that is correctly played [left] and other that doesn't [right]. I hope it will help someone to find a solution, I just have found this and need to investigate more about the different type of ID tags. Something by intuition tells me that if SYNC is a system developed by Microsoft, it could be some embededd unix like system, by means of unicode standarization, and that the APE tag is making the difference in order interpretation because it supports UTF-8 character codification. Codification of characters is a pain in the !Removed! if you have tried Linux based OS's and browsed a few webs with a different Unicode standard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Try mp3tag. Delete the track names but ensure you number the filenames in the order they need to play in and also populate the track number column. For compilation/various artist albums change the artist names to the album name. Sent from my SM-G930F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 My guide to using MP3Tag that may help- MP3TAG for Ford Sync Guide.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilianobv Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 1 hour ago, Stoney871 said: My guide to using MP3Tag that may help- MP3TAG for Ford Sync Guide.pdf Thanks, it worked! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Glad to help 😎 Sent from my SM-G930F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarkkk Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 I have had this alphabetical album playing problem intermittently: very annoying. Try turning off Gracenote in options, and then reindexing. It just worked for me, suspect the problem is here. Can turn back on afterwards if you like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Aye, Gracenote is a pest. It remains solidly off in my car. It even ruins the album art being displayed as well. Sent from my SM-G930F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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