MP3 on USB flash drive plays out of order

[Rupert]

I've recently downloaded a 12-track album in MP3 format and used a splitter to delineate the separate tracks, in order to aid track selection in the future.

Having copied the album onto a USB flash drive and arranged the tracks in the correct order of 1-12 (it hadn't done this automatically, by the way), when I inserted it in my Denon M37 I noticed that it didn't start at track 1. All 12 tracks play beautifully and sound very nice, it's just that it always wants to start at track 6 and end up with track 5. Even when I scroll through to track 1 it carries on until the end of track 5 and stops!

Why doesn't it start at track 1?

 

[hammill]

How did you arrange the tracks? I assume the denon uses a different piece of metadata than you have edited to order the tracks

 

[hammill]

http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0010.html

 

[Rupert]

Many thanks for your helpful replies, hammill.

Initially I'd highlighted all the tracks, then copied and pasted them en bloc to the flashdrive. When I copied and pasted each track individually in the order I wanted them to play, lo and behold the Denon 'sees' them the way I do and co-operates!

Nowt so strange as technology, eh?!