'Natural' Track Or

There are various earlier posts on this topic re other players and I wonder therefore whether it is a generic issue with all MP3 players, but just in case there is more recent knowledge, please bear with me if I am repeating what is obvious or already answered. When transferring tracks from an album to my Zen V, the natural order of the tracks is lost and alpha order takes its place. For some CDs this is not an issue but for li've recordings and multi-movement classical recordings, this is not acceptable,? I can see why alpha order applies, but I would have thought that the need to preserve the natural order of the source material was so fundamental a requirement that it ranks up there with the provision of?a volume control, on/off switch etc. Do audio books get loaded with the chapters jumbled?Please tell me there is a workaround or a software pacth for this available or planned, and that?I will not, having ripped the CDs to the creatri've media player, have to laboriously rename all the tracks to include 00, 0, 02 etc at the beginning of the name,? Again, I undertand the logic of the workaround, but the need to do it is just too bizarre for words

Call me crazy, but my friends Zen V Plus is doing the opposit of what all here describe. And its driving us crazy. It does NOT play in track title order such as a.wma, b.wma, c.wma, 2a.wma, 2b, 2c. etc. The track titles represent the disk number of the book and the letter is the track order on the that disk. So aphabetically, the book would play in order even if there were hundreds of files in that one folder.
INSTEAD it is playing in order of "tracks" in the tag. Each of the book's 9 CDs has a track one, a track two etc. It is not reflected in the file name, but it does say , 2, 3 etc in the Tag field. So the player instead play a, 2a, 3a ... 9a, then b, 2b ... 9b, etc.
We have listened to books on the CZNano and Nano Plus and they play correctly, that is alphabatized by track name. Can someone tell me how to make his V Plus work that way. If I can't do this I would have to edit literally hundreds of tracks by hand, calculating how many tracks in totality of the 9 CDs in order to get them to play in the proper order.
Thanks
Mike

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