How to get music to play in Album order

[The Artilleryman]

Bailey 68-2 with Pioneer AVIC EV01 sat nav fitted.
What I'm trying to do is rip cd's to a memory stick and have them play Album A track 1, then A1 t2 all the way through to end track and then on to A2 t1 all the way to the end of the 15 cd's.

All it will do is play on track title a - z, which is not what I want.

Is there any easy way to do this, can be any format AAC, FLAC, WMV, MP3 that will allow me to do this?
I can move the tags in mp3, but nothing displays correctly on the screen - and it takes hours to do.

 

[tonka]

I know nothing about your fitted system but worth checking if it has a "random play," button or setting as they could overide anything you are putting on the memory stick.

 

[The Artilleryman]

I know nothing about your fitted system but worth checking if it has a "random play," button or setting as they could overide anything you are putting on the memory stick.

No, that works as it should. This is about playing in a
Album and Track order, as at the moment it plays all Tracks in alphabetical order.

 

[Gellyneck]

When I rip our cd's I use mp3tag (free ) to bulk rename all the tracks with a prefix of 001, 002, ....
Also use it to download album info, art, etc.
This ensures they play in album order and displays the album cover if your head unit has that functionality.

 

[Soycd]

I’ve given up on ripping CDs. Got a Spotify account, it’s worth the money. You can download all the albums you like or stream them. The streaming is incredibly cheap these days. I’ve not found much that’s not on there and I like some pretty obscure stuff.

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[Langtoftlad]

ID3-TagIT

Can enumerate tracks

 

[The Artilleryman]

I think I've found a way to do it, in file mode (as against tags mode) drill down through the directory structure to Track and then it will play in track no. order album after album (if repeat is set).

Only downside is most of my cd's have been ripped to the pc using an old version of media player and when syncing to a memory stick I need to copy the individual album folders to the root directly, but am used to doing this on our cars.

 

[Abacist]

I use an iPod or iPhone to which I have ripped CD’s and even digitised LP records and then replay through the Motorhome sound system but also other sound systems as well.

 

[Guigsy]

If the folder includes a playlist, it should pick it up.

But the best fallback method is to include the track number at the start of the filename. That way when they're played alphabetically, they'll be in the correct order.

There are apps that will bulk rename your MP3s by pulling the data from the ID3 tags within each MP3 file... assuming the ID3 data was correctly written in the first place. Or you'll be doing it by hand.

 

[CAB96]

MP3Tag

Free, but worth donating.

Once you get the hang of it it's brilliant, can add pictures as well.