On 5/15/2019 3:28 PM, micky wrote:
> Windows relevance at the end.
>
> Last year I posted about the 3 cars I ended up having in one 2 month
> rental period, and about the flash drive I had made that had about 800
> songs on it from the 50's and early 60's, that I recorded off of
> 181.FM-oldies, one of several internet radio station from the same
> company, with a little advertising. Easy to play and record using
> RadioMaximus, a free program. (the paid version will do scheduled
> recording, but I just let it run for 2 days.)
>
> And it will record each song separately but the first two seconds of
> each song are attached to the previous song, and the only way to hear it
> correctly is to play the songs in the order they were recorded.**
>
> And I said how the Nissan Micra and the Hyudai i10 insisted on playing
> them in order alphabetically by file name. So all the Brenda Lee songs
> played in a row, etc. But then I got a Honda something or other and it
> worked fine. (At home I use a cigarrette lighter player FM-transmitter
> and that works fine too.)
>
> So this year I started with a Mazda 2 and iirc it worked fine, but the
> key was stolen and the next car is a 2019 Honda Jazz (Fit) and it has 4
> options for play order. BUT NONE are the order in which the songs
> reside on the flashdrive. It's either random, or in order by file name,
> or repeating the same song over and over, or one other choice, so last
> year the Honda worked fine but this year it doesn't work right anymore.
>
> It's sort of like the fact that Windows file managers will sort on any
> field hat has a column header, but they will not display files in the
> order in which they appear on the HDD or the flash drive. For that you
> need DOS and the option iirc dir /u for unsorted.
>
>
> **In fact, since in File Managers I display most files with the newest
> at the top, it would copy them that way to the flash drive. I had to
> reorder them with the oldest at the top to copy them in the order
> recorded so they might play in the order recorded.
>


Just don't play them while in reverse or you'll miss 15 to 20 seconds of
important lyrics.