Apologies for giving a lengthy blurb on tagging classical music before getting to the nub of the issue, but I thought it necessary. Here goes:-
With classical music, many CDs contain more than one work, each comprising a number of tracks (or “movements”). Because metadata is difficult to apply for classical music people employ work arounds. One common approach is to tag each work on the disc as a separate “album” - so the “album” tag refers to the work rather than the whole disc. (This makes it much easier to search recordings of a particular work.) It is also common to leave the track files “as ripped”, or as downloaded, in a single folder/directory. So a single folder/directory can contain tracks/files which can use differing metadata “album” tags.
Tagging in this way means that one can access the music by searching for a particular composer/work using metadata or, alternatively, play the whole CD “as is” by going to the folder/directory.
However, this causes problems in Manic Moose when accessing the music via folder/directory directly (rather than via Album, Album Artist, Artist, etc, etc). I would expect Manic Moose to show the tracks/files in the original filename order (or at the very least in metadata “track” number order). Instead of which it completely disregards the original sequence of the tracks/files and orders them in some weired and wonderful way so that a disc which has been compiled with tracks in one order will play in a completely different order.
One example I've used is the 2nd CD from the recording of pianist Alfred Brendel’s “Farewell Concerts” 2 disc album. The CD consists of 2 piano sonatas, each of 4 movements, followed by 3 encores. I’ve taken a screen grab of:
a) The filenames and metadata in the correct order, as shown in mp3tag software, and ...
b) A screen grab of Manic Moose when the CD is selected via the folder/directory. (The Beethoven Bagatelle, the Schubert Impromptu and the Bach Chorale Prelude were played as encores at the end of the concert.)
![](https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=254178)
![](https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=254179)
Because the images as displayed here aren't very clear I've also uploaded them to my Google Drive account:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16Xzn86NGEykZtVEcHjSIoF2eOuSAtOuv?usp=sharing(I can see that this behaviour
might be intended to cater for those people who have mistakenly put multiple albums in the same folder/directory but
surely the answer to those problems is for them to sort out the way they store their music files.)