Downloading an audio book.

[nikon1968]

Last night I downloaded my first audio book.

So I settled to to listen to the first chapter and it has loaded onto my mp3 player backwards.

Chapter 34 is first ?

On checking listing on my hard drive it is correct.

On checking my mp3 lists on the pc it is correct.

But when turning the mp3 player on chapter 34 is first.

What am I missing it has baffled me?

Can't help, I'm afraid. But which book was it ?

What mp3 player is it? The chances are that when you view the folder on your of it sorts th files by name. The mp3 player seems to not be doing that. So there might be a setting on the player that needs tweaking or there might be some metadata attached to the mp3 files (track number is a common one) that isn't set righut but that the player relies upon.

It is an old phillips mp3 player that I dragged out just to download a book.

The book is Wuthering Heights.

Can you give the names of two of the files?

Can you also give the exact name of the player? A manual can then be dug up that might give some clues as to how the player decides to order the tracks that it plays.

General things to try are...

Opening up the MP3 files in whatever music manager software you use and seeing if you can access the properties of the file (right click), look for the track numbers, artist and album names. Check that the track numbers increment and the the other two are the same for each file.

Delete all the chapters from the player. Copy chapter 1 onto it and then as a separate activity copy chapter 2 onto it. Do they play in the right order?

I have done the copying chap 1 then chap 2.

It worked fine and got to chap 10 and all is good.

So I copied the whole lot one at a time.

Then when I started to listen they have reverted back to chap 34 first.

Is it just chapter 34 that comes first with everything else in the right order?

Have you been able to open up the files in a music management tool and check out the track numbers and artist information?

no

34
33
32
31
etc......

Everything looks fine on the pc

OK you need to either open up those files and look at the artist & track information or give the exact model of the player.

The files are opened and they all read the same except the number of the track

ie
1
2
3

Just to double check you're opening them up on your PC and seeing information such as "artist", "album artist" and "track number"?

If so and, as you say, other than the track number they all match then it's something on the player. So if you can provide the exact model then a manual can probably be found to see if there's anything that can be dug out that way.

In the end it's down to the MP3 player to decide what order to play the files in, and for some reason it's messing this up. I've seen it before where the artist info can throw them which is why I asked if you could check it.

The other thing to try would be to make a playlist, if your player can do that, and add each track in the right order and then see if the playlist will apply it's own ordering to the book.

OK Thank you for your help I will give it another bash later.