Music organisation - Suunto Run
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The offline music player is a great feature of the Run, but getting tracks to play in a specific order is currently awkward.
The library view shows tracks in an arbitrary order: not by filename, tag, or folder. Two albums dropped into the music folder come out interleaved and scrambled:
None of the three playback modes (single repeat, playlist repeat, shuffle) resolves this. To listen to an album in its intended order, the only option is to rebuild it as a playlist in the Suunto app, track by track.
Three possible additions come to mind - any one would solve it:
Respect folder structure. Let the watch browse folders and play them as a queue.
Read .m3u / .m3u8 files from the music folder. Playlists built in a desktop tool could just be dropped onto the watch.
Sort the flat library deterministically. By filename, or by Track Number / Album tags.
Adding sorted playback wouldn’t take anything away: shuffle mode already exists for anyone who wants to listen in a random order. -
@Preteen just popping in to say that my experience matches yours. I’ve tried various combinations of things, none of which seems to matter:
- File name
- Folder heirarchy
- File modify date time
- File create date time
- MP3 ID3V2 Tag album name and track number
Various AI tools (Gemini, Anthropic) claim that on Chinese region support forums which I can’t navigate to (https://www.suunto.com/zh-chs/Support/Product-support/suunto_race_s/suunto_race_s/widgets/media-controls/) there is claim that metadata album name and track number should affect the default order, but I’ve not been able to find a pattern or have success with the typical MP3 ID3V2 tags.
Happy to learn what you’ve tried, if anything, beyond your post.
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@Preteen hi, not sure if i am late to this discussion. i recently bought the Run, and this issue has been bugging me, since i listen to audiobooks, and need the chapters to play in order. i keep making playlists in the suunto app, and within each playlist i set the correct order for the tracks/chapters, but a couple days later, the order within the playlist gets jumbled again. over and ove. i contacted suunto… but they couldn’t find the solution either.
i think i finally know what’s going on. the tracks seemed to get jumbled everytime i connect the watch to the computer. it kind of refreshes everything, and the order i created gets reset. so i tried connecting the charger/dock to just an electrical outlet instead, to charge the watch. and that seems to work! the order of tracks seems to be holding.
yes, when i connect the watch to the computer in the future, it will get jumbled again. but i only really need to connect the watch to the computer to add another audiobook. and when i do that, i just need to make sure i use the app to set the chapter order for the new book, and from then on revert to using only the elctrical outlet.
it’s still a bit of work… but i think i can live with it.
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Thanks @zrooo and @russtytinbox! For me the order was just suddenly scrambled at some point, no idea what triggered it. The music feature was one of the main points for me, so I couldn’t live with that. This is why I returned my Run. Now I’m considering the Run 2 oder Race 3s.
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