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Viewing the files in Windows Explorer depends on how you have chosen to sort the files. Our tracks are numbered alphanumerically – Track01, Track02 etc so they are transferred correctly. Al Taylor provided the solution that we use, namely selecting all the files and then right-clicking on the first file and either sending or copying the files to the stick. Generally each news item is produced as a single track (file) so the play order is important. A talking newspaper is how a sight impaired person can access local news and in the UK, there are more than 500 tn’s run by volunteers who distribute their recordings on a memory stick to their listeners. Playing audio files from a memory stick in the correct order has always been a source of frustration for anyone involved in the production of a talking newspaper. This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Travasaurus. It does seem like somebody would’ve come up with an automated program to do all of this by now, though… I just hope somebody else can benefit from my experience as well.

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mp3 (and I doubt I’ll take time to experiment with it unless I get really bored) but that little laborious manual copying technique solved my problem in short order. I don’t know how much attention the internal programming of the ghetto blaster paid to the fact that I had the songs both externally numbered and internally numbered in the “metadata” part of the file when I converted it from.

You definitely nailed it! This was pretty cumbersome and there may well be a better way, but when I copied them 1-by-1 in the exact order I wanted them to the USB flash drive they played exactly as I had intended. This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Al Taylor. While it works for me most of the time (but not always, and if so I just re-do the whole process), I’d be interested in whether your mileage varies. as they were originally listed in the source folder). For me this file will then “properly” play first, and the rest of the songs will follow in the order I desire (i.e. After highlighting the files, to choose the “copy command, right-click on the FIRST filename. If you highlight ALL the files in a folder and then choose the “copy” command by right-click on the filename of the LAST FILE, for some reason that becomes the first one that will play (and I assume is then probably the first one that was copied).

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Generally when one copies files from a PC (and maybe a MAC, but I don’t know) the files you are selecting are all in one folder and listed in the order you are wanting them to be played, possibly alphabetically, but in your case, having a prefix number, you’ll see them listed numerically. Iv’e read that, for all FAT versions, the order the files will play in a player is dependent on the order in which they are copied onto the drive, and NOT what their file names are. Here is what I have read, and following it is what I have done to “fix” it.Īlmost certainly the USB drive will be formatted to FAT, FAT 32 or ExFAT (but NOT NTFS).

I have had this same thing happen to my audio files that I keep on a flash drive. This has got me baffled, so I know there’s a bunch of Digital Music Gurus out there who have what’s probably a pretty simple answer to this bizarre dilemma. But when I burn them to a CD they’re in exactly the correct order and play as they should. I’ve tried dropping the leading zeros (0) on songs 1 thru 9, putting a dash between the numbers and the song titles (01-Midnight Rider, etc) and everything else I can think of but nothing works. wma format, the last numbered song jumped to the first one and the rest played in the correctly-sorted order. mp3, even going to the trouble of correctly numbering them in the “metadata” portion (where the titles and what-not are) before saving them, thinking that might help. So then I trundled-out my faithful Audacity program and laboriously converted them all to. Each time I removed the last numbered song the next one in line jumped up to the first song played. So when I deleted #60, #59 took its place and played as the first song exactly as before and it followed the same pattern. The “real” #1 song would then play as #2 and the rest would play in the correct order. For some nutty reason the last song numbered 60 would insist on playing 1st, no matter what I did. wma files, numbered 01, 02, etc for a total of about 60 files. This is my 1st venture into putting audio files on a USB flash drive as opposed to the trusty ol’ CD, to play on my garden-variety Sony ghetto blaster.

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