What song info does my Zen Sleek really re

Bizarre: I load two albums into the Sleek. Both have track # tags. Both have track number in the filename. One of them appears in track order. The other appears in alpha order. I have no clue what the difference is. I need Creative to tell me. This device is not useful if album tracks are going to be sorted alphabetically.

You may be surprised at what IS in your tags.
Try using a mass tagger that reads both id3v and v2 tags.
MP3Library is particularly good for this - get it at http://www.jumpingcholla.com/jce_nomad.htm
jake

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