Anybody know how track numbers are defined on a USB stick?

[Mushy Mushy]

I have a USB stick in the car and it likes to play the songs completely randomly (I confirm this isn’t a feature I have switched on).

The track numbers are named 01 Song, 02 Song. The Title in the metadata is also defined as 01 Song etc.

My question is if anybody knows where the system is picking up the play order? Is there another metadata field I’m missing?

[whyterabbyt]

could be the creation or modification timestamp...

[Mushy Mushy]

could be the creation or modification timestamp...

Thats what I feared.

So I need to copy them all off and recopy them back in album order. Wow, I’ll be doing it for the rest of my life.

I’ll test a few and report back.

[olepro]

Buy a new car

[Mushy Mushy]

Buy a new car

Nothing like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

[whyterabbyt]

could be the creation or modification timestamp...

Thats what I feared.

So I need to copy them all off and recopy them back in album order. Wow, I’ll be doing it for the rest of my life.

I’ll test a few and report back.

There's tools to do it eg on windows

http://tools.stefankueng.com/SKTimeStamp.html

or the 'touch' command (Unix command line on OSX)

[Mushy Mushy]

could be the creation or modification timestamp...

Thats what I feared.

So I need to copy them all off and recopy them back in album order. Wow, I’ll be doing it for the rest of my life.

I’ll test a few and report back.

There's tools to do it eg on windows

http://tools.stefankueng.com/SKTimeStamp.html

Fantastic!

Downloading now.

[BertKoor]

The player in my car simply takes the order the files were written. This is due to lowest-level access to the folder: no ordering means they are retrieved in the same order they were written in. Remember the dir command on MS-DOS? That worked the same...

My solution: empty the folder and rewrite all the tracks instead of just adding them (which will put the new tracks at the end)

[Mushy Mushy]

http://tools.stefankueng.com/SKTimeStamp.html

This seems to have done the trick

By eliminating the time stamp variable the track order now defaults to the track name.

My morning commute salutes you.

[Mushy Mushy]

The player in my car simply takes the order the files were written. This is due to lowest-level access to the folder: no ordering means they are retrieved in the same order they were written in. Remember the dir command on MS-DOS? That worked the same...

My solution: empty the folder and rewrite all the tracks instead of just adding them (which will put the new tracks at the end)

The ordering logic is very crude indeed. However the program WR recommended did the trick.

[chk071]

Buy a new car

Nothing like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

But, seriously, that's pretty stupid if the playing order would be defined by the file's time stamps. Wonder who thought that out. I always use my mobile phone with the Google Play Music app as a MP3 player, and plug that into my car's radio, so, that's not an issue that way.

[Mushy Mushy]

Buy a new car

Nothing like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

But, seriously, that's pretty stupid if the playing order would be defined by the file's time stamps. Wonder who thought that out. I always use my mobile phone with the Google Play Music app as a MP3 player, and plug that into my car's radio, so, that's not an issue that way.

Even more stupid is the fact the logic crosses folders. It was playing songs from different albums and bands because they were time stamped differently.