Digital Electronics

How do you get an MP3 player to play the tracks in the order you want them?

I have Philips SA1100/37 MP3 player and use it with Windows Media Player 11. When I sync the tracks that I rip from a CD, instead of the tracks being on the MP3 player in the order that they were on the CD they are scrambled and don't play in the order they were in the CD. If I sync more than one CD onto the MP3 player, the tracks of the different CDs are mixed together instead of each CD being played separately and in order. These are inspirational type CDs, not music CDs, so having the tracks in the right order is very important to making any sense out of listening to them. The User Manual for the MP3 player mentions putting the CDs into folders. It seems to me that to have each CD as a separate folder on the MP3 player would be a good idea, but I can't see any way in the MP3 player or the Windows Media player to do that. Can anyone help me? Everything I see on the Windows Media Player Help and Website don't tell me anything. Like I already said, It doesn't matter what order I put the tracks on the player, they play in a different order. Here is an example of how the tracks from a CD were synced to the MP3 player What shows as 001/009 (track one of nine) on the MP3 player was actually track 7 on the CD or in more detail 001/009=Track 7 002/009=Track 4 003/009=Track 8 004/009=Track 5 005/009=Track 6 006/009=Track 9 007/009=Track 1 008/009=Track 2 009/009=Track 3 and on another Sync it came out different: 001/009=Track 7 002/009=Track 8 003/009=Track 5 004/009=Track 9 005/009=Track 6 006/009=Track 1 007/009=Track 2 008/009=Track 3 009/009=Track 4 It does not matter in what order I sync the tracks, and the random shuffle on the MP3 player is off and has nothing to do with this. Creating a Playlist makes no difference. I had to go to work and I just got back home. Before I left I just had time to try what liz suggested with one CD and it worked. I listened to that CD several times at work with my MP3 player and it worked perfectly. Thanks liz. Now I'm ripping a second CD to sync to the MP3 player. I'll see how that works in a few minutes.

Public Comments

1. put them in the player in the order
2. Make a playlist. Then make sure that the random/shuffle play option is off on your mp3 player.
3. ok i had the same prob, either go into the my computer section of your computer, then click on the philips, make a new folder you the artists or cd's and put the number of the song in front, you can organize your music like that and skip through the folders, or you can try to get used to the being in alphabetical order like it should be putting them in. hope i helped.
4. Sorry Dave, i really do not know but try this link, you might be able to get an answer? http://www.askdavetaylor.com/produce_mp3_files_from_a_cd_with_windows_media_player.html