This is a common issue in the way that many heads from a couple of manufacturers implement reading fat32 off USB. Pioneer and Sony are the main ones I've heard grumblings about.<br><br>The likely reason why they don't do proper name based sorting is either because they are (a) lazy (b) cutting corners because they want to maximize profit or (c) they are avoiding stepping on a patent that might be out there having to do with fat32 long file naming<br>
<br>I'm leaning towards C, for as I recall Fat32 and long filenames were what Microsoft beat Tom-Tom with a stick over recently.<br><br>Sadly, the only way to have them play in order is to write the files in order to the USB drive in the first place. "cp $(ls -1) dest" seems a little too coarse for my taste because it doesn't play well if you have other files besides mp3s in the directory, I much prefer:<br>
<br>for i in *.mp3; do cp $i /path/to/disk/; sync; done<br><br><br>As to the order that the dragged folder played in, I suspect that they may have played in an order that is related to the file size of the songs, but I could be wrong.<br>
<br>Matthew<br><br><br>