How to edit MP3 tags in WIndows media player to have proper track listing

Answers

You seem to be a victim of Numerical Sorting.

I guess that the titles in the list look like:

1 song1
2 song2
...
10 song10
etc.

They are not listed correctly in WMP or the car player, which is only natural - this is after all a pure Windows 10 Explorer feature, so the list is only listed correctly in Explorer.

You would need to rename the titles so they look like:

01 song1
02 song2
...
10 song10
etc.

harrymc

Posted 2019-08-25T19:07:06.910

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So I tried adding 0's in front of the songs in the "#" cell. The cell located in the details tab. Which tag do the media devices read to determine ordering? – dc3rd – 2019-08-25T21:15:55.110

2Depending on the format of your album, but to rename it might be enough to right-click on the title and select Edit, or click it and press F2. – harrymc – 2019-08-26T06:35:50.183

Yes this ended up working. The alternative was messing with the REG files, which I don't want to do... – dc3rd – 2019-08-26T18:54:04.657

In WMP, in Alt > Play menu, is Shuffle checked? And are you playing the files from within WMP's library? – harrymc – 2019-08-25T19:35:35.163

No. What I usually do is have each album separated by folder. So I would usually open up WMP and drag the folder over to the WMP with the list option activated. Then I would have the listing of the tracks while they play. Alternatively if I have the album on a USB and I plag it in the car the same messed up track listing occurs. It appears to read the songs as 1, 10, 11, 12,...,2, 3, 4, 5......etc. – dc3rd – 2019-08-25T20:21:05.183