[NBLUG/talk] FAT32 multiple file copy order

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Tue Jan 12 18:42:01 PST 2010


Bob, you might try m3u playlists instead of ID3.  I'm pretty sure the ipod takes the raw ID3 data and stuffs it into a 'database' on the ipod, it doesn't read them directly.  And since the pioneer's are designed to be ipod compatible...?

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Bruce Schadel <schadel at sonic.net> wrote:

> From: Bruce Schadel <schadel at sonic.net>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] FAT32 multiple file copy order
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 1:11 PM
> Sounds like the player just works its
> way through the FAT. Frankly, I'm 
> not enough of an expert to even be lurking on this list,
> but here's what 
> I'd do:
> 
> Try working from a bash command line. cd to the directory
> you want to 
> copy from and execute the command "ls -1" (without the
> quotes). Note 
> that the option switch is "minus ONE", not "minus ell".
> Confirm that 
> this produces a list of filenames (and nothing else) in
> alphanumeric 
> order with one name per line. Now embed that command in a
> larger one 
> like so: "cp $(ls -1) dest_dir" (again, no quotes and
> replace dest_dir 
> with the appropriate identifer of the flash drive
> directory). cp should 
> then copy the files in the order they are listed by the ls
> command.
> 
> Good luck,
> --Bruce--
> 
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:53:06 -0800
> > From: Bob Blick <bobblick at ftml.net>
> > Subject: [NBLUG/talk] FAT32 multiple file copy order
> > To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux,
> answers to questions,
> >     etc." <talk at nblug.org>
> > Message-ID: <4B4C0E42.1010203 at ftml.net>
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> >
> > My Pioneer car stereo has USB input for thumb drives
> with mp3 files in
> > FAT32 format. It does read ID3 tags, but unfortunately
> does not use that
> > information nor the filename to decide what order to
> play the files. It
> > plays them in the order they are copied to the
> directory they are in.
> >
> > Therefore I need to be able to force the copying
> process to be in
> > filename order, since I have the track number at the
> beginning of each
> > filename.
> >
> > I know that when I copy them in Windows. it copies
> them in filename
> > order if I click the last file, hold the shif key,
> then click the first
> > filename, then drag the files over. That gets kind of
> old since I can't
> > just grab a whole lot of folders, or even one folder
> at a time, I have
> > to create a folder, then copy to it.
> >
> > In Linux if I use Konqueror, I am not sure what order
> it copies them. It
> > seems really random.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Go back to an iPod?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob
> 
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