All music tracks in alphabetical order...Why?

WD Legacy Products My Book Live Duo
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It appears thaty WD removed the Twonky server and went to a Generic. Now it is all a pretty bad mess.

I recently purchased a Live Duo (LD), thinking about using it mainly as a music storage device, in RAID 1 configuration for backup-security reasons.

I am planning to rip my entire CD collection into FLAC form, so this is going to take its time…My intention was to use Naim Audio ND5 XS ( http://www.naimaudio.com/hifi-products/nd5-xs) network player to stream music from WDLD.The streamer is wired to the network for better performance and it “communicates” with LD flawlessly.It opens the music folder and access all its contents.

Unfortunately there is a slight problem, unacceptable for a serious music lover as myself. During playback through Naim steamer the tracks in every album are listed alphabetically, not in the order decided by the artist (and transfered during ripping).The metadata seem to be ok.When I check the Flac files at the hard discs, track number is listed normally.I am using dBpoweramp for ripping, if this is of any help.

The music streamer has just a few basic settings (it targets PC-phobics after all!), so that leaves me with WDLD to work with.

Does anyone have any knowledge on the matter?I also contacted Naim Audio for advice, but they couldn’t really help.They asked me abour the Upnp server running on Live Duo, but I had no clue.So what about this server “issue”?Any ideas on this?

Both NAS drive and (especially) streamer are pretty expensive products, so I seek the best out of them.Any help will be much appreciated!

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See here

http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/n-stream-and-flac-tracks-in-alphabetical-orderany-ideas

It seems the best thing to do is name your flac filenames 01- 02 - etc instead of replying on the flac track tag.

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Thanks,

The problem is that the WD Liveduo NAS has a generic media server and it doe not support Flac, WAV, the Aiff files work.

WD went on the cheap and this WD NAS goes back to its maker.

Thanks.

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I don’t get it, in your first post you say that you have a problem with the track listing and now you say you can’t play them no matter what order they are in. You could have mentioned that in the first place!