m4a Track Number Issue

[bluedot]

Hi! I don't know if this is solved or not, but I've been having trouble with my metadata from m4a tracks. Whenever I load my .flac albums onto a playlist (just drag and drop a folder of files) they're arranged correctly by track number and disc number. When I try to do the same with my m4a files, they're arranged alphabetically. For the m4a files, in windows explorer I see the correct track number, and everything works correctly and loads according to track number in iTunes. The only thing I've noticed is that I look at the metadata for the files in wacup it shows 1/15 2/15 instead of integers 1, 2... If I manually edit the data, it still doesn't fix the issue.

I used mp3tag to delete the totaltracks metadata from the album, and this made wacup metadata read integers (1, 2...) rather than the fractions (1/15, 2/15, ...) but the files are still loading alphabetically. Really frustrating because all my flac albums work perfectly, and I think the metadata is fine (in some regard) because iTunes is reading it properly.

Hope someone can help!

[dro]

There is no sorting of things based on the metadata during drag+drop actions (has been requested along with deduplication if there's also playlist files in the selection) & it's primarily done based on the order that the OS provides the files depending on how its been selected or sometimes based on the file creation date (more of a thing from old fat32 formatted drives).

Other than having premade playlist files (imho the best way to ensure a known order) & adding them it seems like it's just handling them in the order the OS is giving as I don't know if you're doing it from a selection within the folder or the folder itself for the drag+drop action.

[bluedot]

This makes a lot of sense. After a few hours of fighting with everything, I realized my flac files are actually named 01 - track 02 - track etc but my m4a were just the names of the titles. My own fault for not investigating further. Solved!

Would be cool if it could work based on the metadata like iTunes but love WACUP anyway . Thanks for the response!