Music organisation - Suunto Run

[Preteen]

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.

[zrooo]

@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.