Re: [Ifp-driver-common] OT: IFP-700 w/USB firmware plays files in order they were saved

[Wilco B. <wil...@gm...>]

Well that's a typical nautilus problem. You could drag and drop them
one by one but that sucks of course.
It seems like a nautilus bug to me. Anyway you can always use the shell to do it

2008/1/28, chombee <ch...@ne...>:
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:08 +0100, Wilco Beekhuizen wrote:
> > Well this is a general problem with USB mp3 players, not particulary
> > related to Iriver or nautilus.
> >
> > One way to solve this is to first create a directory for your music
> > and then copy files to it. It works excellent from the console,
> > probably from nautilus to.
> >
> > This is what I mean:
> > # cd /mnt/mp3 (or wherever it is mounted)
> > # mkdir "Supermusic from a new album"
> > # cd "Supermusic from a new album"
> > # cp /mnt/data/mp3/* .
> >
> > Now you have first created and entered a directory and after that cp
> > follows the alphabetical order of the files. Copying a directory
> > follows the order they are stored physically (that might be total
> > nonsense for humans) and copying files follows the alphabetical naming
> > conventions.
> >
> > I hope for you a similar approach works with nautilus.
>
> So you're saying that instead of dragging a folder to the device, I
> should create a new folder on the device, then open my folder on my
> machine, select all the files inside it, and drag them over to the
> folder on the device?
>
> I tried this with nautilus and it turns out it copies the files in
> reverse order of filename. The iriver then plays them in reverse order!
>
> It sounds like there might be some sort of solution here though.
>
> I've been told that using rsync to copy the files will work, but haven't
> tried it yet.
>
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