I bought a CPO 2022 MDX Advance recently, and I notice a problem when I load my USB music stick (I'm not a music streamer).
I've spent many hours over the years using MP3TAG to setup all the album artwork, along with the metadata by album so the songs play in the correct order.
The songs are listed in order in my 2013 TL, but the MDX seems to force songs into alphabetical order and disregards the metadata. Is there a way to fix that without going back and renaming every single song with a number in front of the name?

Also, the way the navigation always defaults into that 2D mode at a 500' view is nuts, even my TL would save the view setting. Apparently there's no way to fix that.
Those and other minor odd things almost make me regret buying it.

 

So I spent a lot of time researching the answer. I've used Mp3tag for years to change the metadata in songs and these are the things I noticed.
In my 2013 TL, the ELS system reads the track numbers in the metadata and sorts songs using those numbers, regardless of the song title or file name. The MDX seems to completely ignore track numbers and sorts songs alphabetically.
The only way I can get the MDX to sort songs correctly in albums is to prepend a number before each song, either in the file name on the USB stick, or in the metadata. As seen in the screenshot, I have to put a 01, 02, 03, etc before each song.

Interestingly enough, if I just do it in the file names and leave the metadata blank, the system will play the songs in the correct order. If I do it the other way around, without the numbering on the file names but the metadata names numbered, it'll play in order, but when the system moves to the next album, it defaults back to alphabetical order.

It's just so weird so I do it on both the file name and metadata to keep it consistent. It would probably take someone at Acura 10 minutes to program the ELS system to read the track numbers, like it used to. Same for the navigation screen keeping your default view.
It looks corny on the MDX screen because each song has a number in front of it, no big deal I guess. I spent many hours going through all my albums and fixing each one to match what I have below.

Most of you normal humans just stream everything through your phones so this will never apply to you, but it might help someone.

 

I'd found the same thing, with the same workaround. Now my pet peeve, because I play DJ mixes, is that the audio system inserts a little pause between tracks. So what should be an entire album seamlessly flowing from one song to the next has annoying breaks throughout. If you know a workaround for THAT issue, I'd love to hear it!