From: "David" <bouncingcats@gmail.com>

On 27 August 2013 22:48, Peter <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:

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I have a digital recorder / player, a Sony PCM-M10.

It can take FAT formated Micro SD cards.

I can access them via USB, mount them and copy folders and files.

However, there is one glitch: the order of the files. I call them 01_dada.wav, 02_ased.wav etc. ad hope it plays it in that order.

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Any ideas or experiences how to fix it?

Hi Peter

I typed "fat directory order" into a search engine and with 5 seconds effort found this apparently related info: http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0010.html

Thanks. I found fatsort there too (see other mail)

I have no additional knowledge to offer you but I thought I might as well send it to you as you don't mention having done any searching yourself:

I searched but did not use the same words. I was not even sure yet what the reason was (just guessed it)

I assume you sent this to luv-main because you are using a linux machine to copy the files? That page does emphasises other offtopic operating systems and non-linux filesystems, but it does include a couple of references to linux utilities and hopefully might provide you other useful insight into your problem.

I am using Linux (u Ubuntu desktop). The recorder/player came only with a toaster with some scribbling on it ("Microsoft Windows" etc.) It is under my coffee mug now. It was an utility + understanding problem. I was not sure what caused the random playlist order - creation time? Directory order? It seems to be directory order + a MSGLIST.MSF file (created after scanning a SD card using the directory order) The MSGLIST.MSF was created after my first copy in random order (tar -cf - . | tar -xf -C /mnt) and most likely not updated after I copied second time, this time in sorted order. Thanks Peter