Does FFS copy files in alphabetical order?
When I am creating a USB stick (Fat32 file system) for use in the car I want the directories and the files inside the directories to be copied in alphabetical order.
Is there a way to ask FFS to do that?
Is Alphabetical Order Copying Possible?
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Copying method has no effect on the resulting sort. The device it gets plugged into needs to represent it alphabetically
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That is a dumb way for the player to organize the files. It must be sorting be creation date. At least you seem to have an 'okay' solution. But the creation date wouldn't change just from moving between folders... I don't know, but whatever device that doesn't give the option to sort alphabetically is dumb
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Trying to alpha copy on Windows is very problematic. The hack of cutting and pasting does not always work, especially if you are copying a folder containing many subfolders each of which contains many files. (Only a 1 level hierarchy but still..). Windows seems to try to parallelize the copy and as a result it does not do it in alpha order.
In Linux from the cmd line (and maybe in windows, I don't know windows cmd line) you can write a script containing a FOR loop to grab each file name in alpha order from the directories (also in alpha order ) and then copy each file over. No parallelization but that is not critical.
I was just hoping the I could do it from FFS; strange that FFS would not have an option to do that.
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In Linux from the cmd line (and maybe in windows, I don't know windows cmd line) you can write a script containing a FOR loop to grab each file name in alpha order from the directories (also in alpha order ) and then copy each file over. No parallelization but that is not critical.
I was just hoping the I could do it from FFS; strange that FFS would not have an option to do that.
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Well THIS device (car sound system) does NOT. I imagine that the car mfg can save $0.01 per car by not providing a sort function so they didn't.Copying method has no effect on the resulting sort. The device it gets plugged into needs to represent it alphabetically xCSxXenon, 16 Mar 2021, 18:37
It just displays the files/directories in the order they are in the FAT32 file system, which I guess is the order they were copied to the USB stick in the first place.
Its a pain, since a 16GB USB stick can have a LOT of sound tracks on it.
The fix is supposed to be the .mu3 file. Most decent audio players will use the .mu3 file as a 'playlist' and play the stuff in that order. So you can change the order they are played in by just editing one file; you don't have to recreate the file system.
For some reason my 2012 Toyota Camry does not handle .mu3 (aka playlist) files either.
Guess the mfg save another penny with that decision.
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