On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:06:15AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. > > Contrary to the instruction manual, the player (a Creative MUVO) plays > files in the order in which they are written to flash memory, so if I > have an audio book with a hundred chapters on an ext3 drive and then > copy the book to the mp3 player, the chapters do not necessarily play > in proper sequence. > > The player is inexpensive, and does not support playlists. > > In searching, I discovered that others also have this problem, but > there appears to be no standard Linux utility to solve the problem. > > But perhaps someone has written such a utility written in Perl? > > In the Debian archives is a utility named "fatsort" which addresses > this problem, but it necessitates mounting a FAT partition. > > RLH Here is an idea: create a temp. dir: mkdir music_copy
copy the files you want to listen to into the temp. dir: cp my_music_file1 my_music_file2 ... music_copy alter the time stamp of these files to suite FAT: (I think 'touch' would do but not sure what FAT uses) then copy the file to your music player The key is to find what value FAT uses: mtime? ctime? Hope this helps. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
