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Catalina's Music.app ignores the "create-filenames-with-tracknumber" hidden setting

Catalina's Music.app seems to completely ignore the "create-filenames-with-tracknumber: false" hidden setting for organising and consolidating library.


Any time I play a song, without an unforeseeable logic, Music.app renames the track "TrackName.m4a" to "01 TrackName.m4a", for example.


This is causing big problems because, as a DJ, my live stage software is referencing nearly all tracks without track number in front.


Please note: this is not at all related with the lack of iTunes Library.XML file that is also causing problems to DJs.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Oct 14, 2019 5:46 PM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2019 6:06 PM

It turned out that only the songs I played before setting the hidden flag (I moved the library from an older Mac) kept at auto-renaming. Removing and rewriting track number, after the flag was set, solved the problem.


So it seems that the flag is not ignored.

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Oct 18, 2019 1:02 PM in response to turingtest2

If you look at Music, you can easily understand that it's just iTunes with something stripped out.


Anyway, it does consider that setting, when download the song from iCloud.

Then, something random happens that ignore the setting.



As far as I know, it was an "import setting" in iTunes versions < 8.

Than it was maintained as an hidden setting, along with "create-filenames-with-discnumber".

An official documentation never existed for that param, neither in iTunes, nor in Music.

Catalina's Music.app ignores the "create-filenames-with-tracknumber" hidden setting

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