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I have many singles. I have put them into albums. For now, I will call them Disc 1, Disc 2, etc. When I get to Disc 10, it appears between Disc 1 and Disc 2, instead of being after disc 9.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Aug 10, 2020 4:26 PM

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Posted on Aug 11, 2020 7:22 AM

Presumably, this is not in the Disc X of X fields in the song's information, but in the album title field, so to remedy this, name the first nine albums with Disc 01, Disc 02, Disc 03 etc. (that's a zero, not the letter "o").


This is because unless the field is designed specifically to deal with numbers (such as the Disc X of X boxes), any numbers you use are treated as text, not "numbers". In text terms, the correct order for numbers is:

1

10

11

12

2

21

22

23

3

4

5

51

52 etc. etc.

because the 1 in the number "twelve" comes before the number 2 in the number "two", while the number 2 in "twenty-one" comes before the number 3 in "three" and so on.

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Aug 11, 2020 7:22 AM in response to Bigfoot1947

Presumably, this is not in the Disc X of X fields in the song's information, but in the album title field, so to remedy this, name the first nine albums with Disc 01, Disc 02, Disc 03 etc. (that's a zero, not the letter "o").


This is because unless the field is designed specifically to deal with numbers (such as the Disc X of X boxes), any numbers you use are treated as text, not "numbers". In text terms, the correct order for numbers is:

1

10

11

12

2

21

22

23

3

4

5

51

52 etc. etc.

because the 1 in the number "twelve" comes before the number 2 in the number "two", while the number 2 in "twenty-one" comes before the number 3 in "three" and so on.

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