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Music player only playing alphabetically

Tactician42

Tactician42

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My lg Stylo 2 has only been playing downloaded music in alphabetical order recently.
Any music I download directly to my phone is correct, but anytime I put a CD onto my Windows 10 PC via Windows Media Player and then transfer it to my phone, the albums always play the tracks in alphabetical order.
The tag data appears correct when I look at the files or through Media player itself.
Please need a fix for this
 
Songs on a CD are written to the disc itself in a particular order. The liner notes will also list the songs in that same sequential order. If you read that listing you'll notice that the song names themselves are not in alphabetical order. So when you play a CD through Windows Media Player it's simply playing them the same way, as they were written to the CD. When you rip and transfer those songs to your phone, at that point whichever media player you use on your phone just sees that group of audio files in alphabetical order by default. Look in your media player's Settings menu to see if there's an option to change the default playback from alphabetical to tag order. Or make a playlist and sort everything the way you might want.
 
The problem I have with that is, other albums on my phone are also from CD's. Only albums I've added to my PC in the past 2 years maybe have done this.
Before I was using Vista and now it's Window's 10, don't know if that will help
 
Install a playlist maker app from the Play Store on your phone. Then just use it to make playlists of your songs so they can be played back in whatever order you set up in each playlist.
 
"Windows Media Player"

That maybe the culprit, possibly it's not tagging the track order correctly. Also are you using MP3 or WMA? If it's WMA, good luck, here be dragons!
 
mikedt said:
"Windows Media Player"

That maybe the culprit, possibly it's not tagging the track order correctly. Also are you using MP3 or WMA? If it's WMA, good luck, here be dragons!
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And with that I found my culprit, thank you
Specifically they had been ripping as WMA files
 
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