Having trouble with music files and the Database Sansa Clip+

[qualm]

I have a Sansa Clip+ with a patriot 32gb Class 10 card.



So I have transfered files from my PC to my Clip+ using MSC to transfer everything.  The transfers went fine and I can see and play the music files just fine through files then music.  90% of the files that I have on the clip are FLAC.  I am having a real hard time with the Database.  Some of the files show up just fine and some of them not at all.  I think the ones that I am having a problem with are FLAC files that are 1 file with a .CUE sheet that splits the file into tracks.  Is this the problem?  Is there a way to split 1 FLAC file into multiple tracks? 

Also what is the best way to tag FLAC, or any file, so they show up proper in the DATABASE.


Thanks for all your hard work and advice.

[Chronon]

By my understanding, Rockbox doesn't treat the tracks listed inside of a cuesheet as actual tracks in the same way as tracks encoded as independent files: Rockbox loads the main file and then allows skipping between the split points given in the cuesheet, but doesn't index each of these as independent tracks as far as the database is concerned.  (I actually haven't used any cuesheets in a while though.)

I would expect such albums to show up in the database as an album containing only a single track.  Is this consistent with what you're seeing? 

[qualm]

No that is not how I see the album.  The albums just do not show up in the Database at all.  I can only see the album when I go through the files and not the database.  If I saw just one track, in the database, and rockbox used the .cue I would be allright with that.  I just split the one FLAC file with the .cue sheet and CUEtools then erased the old files, on the clip+, and replaced with the split Flac files and now everything works fine.  Rockbox just does not like the single FLAC file I guess.


Thanks

[Chronon]

Is it possible that the large FLAC files had large metadata fields that were causing the files to be sorted improperly?  There have been some bugs (recently fixed) stemming from metadata buffer getting field by a single large field.

Rockbox should handle single files with cuesheets.  Maybe if I find some time I will see if I can duplicate your problem.