Duplicate song titles in Zen To

The way that the Zen Touch stores songs works for 95% of my music. However, I've got a bunch of albums that I've downloaded from archi've.org (li've concerts), as well as some other li've albums in which the artist plays the same song twice. So the album, artist, and title are all duplicate, but the track number is different. The filenames on my computer are different (I use a track-artist-title naming convention), so I've got no problem playing them with MediaMonkey or WinAmp, but, even though the Zen can read and understand the track number (it obviously can play an album in track order), it ignores it when storing the songs, meaning that, for instance, I can only listen to the first time Johnny Cash sings San Quentin on my Li've At San Quentin album (not an obscure title), but not the second.
From reading moderator posts from March saying that the firmware update would be out "any time now", I understand that I'm tilting at a windmill here, but this kind of a change should take no more than a day to code up and fully test, and would make the Zen compatable with all of my albums rather than most without adding significantly to the size of the database. Yes, I realize I could go through and rename every duplicate track in my 6000 song collection, but it seems silly since a fix should be dirt easy and the other programs I use to manage and play my music is smart enough to read the track number tag.
Not hopeful, just sayin'...

craigim wrote:
but this kind of a change should take no more than a day to code up and fully test
I'd be wary of making broadbrush statements like this. Having worked with software development nothing is ever this easy, and without knowing Creative's player intimately, how the coding works, and how it's tested, it's not possible to make conclusi've leaps like this.
Despite this, I absolutely agree that the track number should be included in the database index, but we've been saying this since the days of the NJB (4+ years ago) so I wouldn't hold your breath ?Also it's been listed on my wishlist page for a long while.

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