"it plays them in the order they are copied to the directory they are in".<div>1) That is crappy.</div><div>2) That is an interesting problem to solve.<br><br></div><div>I suggest you do a test. I'm guessing it looks at the timestamps of the files in order</div>
<div>to determine what was copied onto the drive first ? You could use Linux and a little</div><div>scripting to just 'touch' the files to dates that are arranged how you want to listen to the music. *I think*</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it isn't using the filenames, not sure how else besides for the ctime (or maybe mtime?) of the file</div><div>it knows how they were copied to the disk.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd put 4 songs in a folder and try changing the dates of the files around with touch, then see if the</div>
<div>order it plays them in changes... I think that should trick it into thinking you copied the files earlier/later/whatever. </div><div>I don't know if you can change the creation time of the files with touch.. or if you'll need to do that or not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For any unacquainted with the touch command: <a href="http://www.linfo.org/touch.html">http://www.linfo.org/touch.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck, See ya tomorrow!</div><div><br></div><div>
-Aaron</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Bob Blick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobblick@ftml.net">bobblick@ftml.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
My Pioneer car stereo has USB input for thumb drives with mp3 files in<br>
FAT32 format. It does read ID3 tags, but unfortunately does not use that<br>
information nor the filename to decide what order to play the files. It<br>
plays them in the order they are copied to the directory they are in.<br>
<br>
Therefore I need to be able to force the copying process to be in<br>
filename order, since I have the track number at the beginning of each<br>
filename.<br>
<br>
I know that when I copy them in Windows. it copies them in filename<br>
order if I click the last file, hold the shif key, then click the first<br>
filename, then drag the files over. That gets kind of old since I can't<br>
just grab a whole lot of folders, or even one folder at a time, I have<br>
to create a folder, then copy to it.<br>
<br>
In Linux if I use Konqueror, I am not sure what order it copies them. It<br>
seems really random.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions? Go back to an iPod?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<br>
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