mp3 playback order in car stereo (USB stick) Options

[maggior]

I have a new car (Volvo XC70) which has the ability to play mp3 files stored on a USB memory stick. I copied a bunch of mp3 files to a USB stick and put it into the player. It worked well except for the fact that it played the tracks in a seemingly random order. The files and albums are organized like this:
artist\album\## TrackName.mp3

The files are LAME mp3 and are tagged with artist, genre, track number, track name, and year.

The album/artist/track name information all appeared correctly in the display, but the track order was totally wrong. Even listing the tracks in an album show them in the incorrect order. I did verify that "shuffle" is turned off. The tracks do maintain their grouping as an album, but are a random order within the album. Of course, the owner's manual is of no use.

Older posts here have talked about the play order being determined by when the file was created on the medium (CD-R at the time) rather than by the file name.

Does anybody know if this is the case? Any simple methods to resolve issues like this?

Thanks.

This post has been edited by maggior: Mar 22 2010, 20:17

[Aqua-Fusion]

Hi, I would like to ask you something:

I ordered a Volvo XC70, it will arrive in september 2010. But I'm wondering how the mp3 playing works. I drive now with a Volvo V50 and I must say, the way how you select mp3 files to play is awful.
Is it easy in the XC70? How is the navigation in the artist\album folders?
Is it easy to find and selected one track?

I'm a little worried. In my last car (Ford S-Max it was very good)
Did you solved your problem?


Thanks for the info,
Steven

This post has been edited by db1989: Feb 5 2012, 14:54

Reason for edit: deleting pointless full quote of first post