Re: Copy files to an audio player and playing order - luv-main

28 Aug 2013

From: "David" &lt;bouncingcats(a)gmail.com&gt;
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  On 27 August 2013 22:48, Peter
&lt;Petros.Listig(a)fdrive.com.au&gt; wrote:

 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. 
 [..]

  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