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[solved]Database Sort Order Problem on IPOD NANO1g

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saraj:
First, I say I'm very impressed by Rockbox. Hats off to all you genius programmers!
Yet there's a still small step to deliver me from Steve Jobs. Perhaps a little nudge will do. :)

Artist=Scientific American
Album=Talk-2008
The files and song titles are both named according date(for example:December to November)

Talk-2008.12.31
Talk-2008.12.24
Talk-2008.12.19
Talk-2008.12.10
Talk-2008.12.03
Talk-2008.11.26
Talk-2008.11.19
Talk-2008.11.12
Talk-2008.11.05

The problem is when I browse by Database->Album->Talk-2008, I get the songs sorted like this:

03. Talk-2008.12.03
05. Talk-2008.11.05
10. Talk-2008.12.10
12. Talk-2008.11.12
19. Talk-2008.11.19
19. Talk-2008.12.19
24. Talk-2008.12.24
26. Talk-2008.11.26
31. Talk-2008.12.31

First I thought they were sorted randomly, then I realized they were sorted by the Days not by Months(I leave the Tracknumber Tag blank). The leading number before "Talk" was made by Rockbox.

If I go like Database->Album-><All Tracks>, then the Sorting is totally fine. Yet I have other albums under the same artist, then I have to listen to all the songs under the albums :(.

Is there anyway I could do to sort the songs correctly under a single album? Any advice will be much appreciated.

MarcGuay:
The database is quite flexible.  You might find this page useful: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataBase

saraj:
Thanx, I read about it before I post(always do research first). But I still read the page thoroughly again. It seems I have to tweak the tagnavi.config, right? I sort of understood some part of it. But not being a coder, I'm afraid when come to actually modify the syntax it would end up with a mess configure file which won't function at all and a more frustrated me(yeah those bad memories).

I know the more powerful tool has more "price/expertise" to pay. But I can't dig it too much. So could it act really simple like apple firmware-just clicking "artist"->"album"->songs sorted alphabetly. I wish I won't have to add Tracknumbers in the song tag. Somehow, isn't the Rockbox automatically adding tracknumber by last two digits weird? Is it because I have dots in the filename/title?

Thanks again.

safetydan:
This sounds like the tagcache's automagic track number detection misfiring not a problem with tagnavi.conf. Not sure what the workaround would be though.

Llorean:
We probably shouldn't have it try to do track number detection. Core Rockbox doesn't, and it shouldn't either. If people want track number sorting, they should add track number tags.

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