Numbering Anomaly in Playlist affecting random play inside Plylist

[hbu...@gmail.com]

B2  B2B Feb 14, 21

I combined two CDs today in NAS, and ran Scan afterwards. 

I then put the combined album into a new playlist but when I tried to play the playlist in random, the next track was from somewhere outside the playlist. 

Previously created playlists played randomly OK. 

So I deduced the problem was in my new playlist. 

I eventually discovered the problem was due to the numbering system I had adopted.

I had added "1."  to the track numbers in CD1 and "2." to the track numbers in  CD2, a bit lazy but it minimised keystrokes in the original UI. There were about 40 tracks in all. 

The sequence then looked as follows. 

1.01 track 1 

1.02 track 2 

......

.....

2.01 track 20 

2.02 track 21

.......

After a lot of experimentation I changed the numbering to 

101 track 1

102 track 2

......

......

201 track 20 

202 track 21

.....

Deleted the old playlist and created a new one which plays randomly as expected

Sorry for the long post, but this seems a strange bug which needs documenting. 

Incidentally I couldn't find out how to add appropriate tags to this post. Google Groups is Pants. 

[PMB]

Hi hbu...,

Thanks for highlighting this.

Concerning Google Groups (and we all agree with you re. the new layout).

Paul

Brennan Support.