Audio books not syncing in proper sequence

**IndrneeL** · 30-04-2009

This is Windows Media Player with Windows XP. I keep on ripping audio books on WMP in mp3 or wma format. But now since last couple of days whenever I sync them, the files seem to be out of order from the way I ripped them. The same thing happens when I sync them to my Sansa Fuze. Tracks use to be in proper order but not the audio books. I never had this problem in WMP 10. Is this the fault of WMP 11?

Is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance.

**Gregoryl** · 05-05-2009

Hello IndrneeL, can you just tell me if the files play back is proper in Fuze by file-name order or by metadata-title
order? Just reply with the same.

**IndrneeL** · 05-05-2009

Thanks for the prompt reply friend, but I don’t know what is meant by metadata-title. Can you be more specific about this please? As far as I know my Sansa is able to play the actual name of the book by its title, disc #, track #, MP3.

Thanks again.

**Borgnine** · 13-05-2009

Hey can you just tell me how the tracks are sorted in Windows Media Player? And what are the filenames for a set of audio books in question?

**stevo101** · 29-07-2011

Hey cayennejim 466,
I came accross a similar problem when transfering an audiobook onto a creative zen. The player is reorganising the files not based on the file name like its supposed to but on the metadata or tag which looks like this '#'
You can view the order of the files for yourself by clicking # to go in ascending order. If you can't see it, right click anywhere along the bar with "Name", "Date Modified", "Artist" and "Album" and select it from there. The only way I now how to change the info in this column is to download a free program from NCH called "stamp". This will allow you to change this and other metadata info too.
If you find a better way to do this, please me know