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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:29:41 -0500, Paul   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 2/22/2026 3:51 PM, micky wrote:   
   >> FYI   
   >>   
   >> Did you know: That no file manager with a GuI will display files in a   
   >> directory in the order they are written onto the media?  And that no   
   >> option in CMD will do this either?   
   >>   
   >> (I really don't understand Powershell or its role. Will anything in   
   >> Powershell do this?)   
   >>   
   >> The only thing I know that will do this is Take Command, TCC or its free   
   >> version TCC/LE.  Hasn't been updated since 2020 or earlier afaict, but   
   >> there is no need to update it.  It's fantastic.  Has many other great   
   >> enhancements though my 709-yo memory will need some time to think of   
   >> them.   
   >>   One simple one is CD....  where the number of dots minus one indicates   
   >> how many directories up you will position yourself.   
   >>   And dir /o:u will display files in Unsorted order.   
   >>   
   >> Why would physical order matter?  I'm sure there are many reasons, but   
   >> for me, I wanted a flashdrive with music I like, since no radio station   
   >> in Baltimore** plays it and I'm going abroad and certainly no station   
   >> there plays 50's and early 60's music.  But using Radiomaximus, and I'm   
   >> sure other methods, one can play 181.FM Oldies, for free.   And there   
   >> are amny other genres as well.   
   >>   
   >> I did this several years ago but I can't find the flashdrive I made.   
   >> This time it will be even better. So instead of just recording for a ay   
   >> and a half, I recorded for 3 days. Got about 1650 files.  Sorted   
   >> alphabetically and got rid of two groups I don't like, and got rid of   
   >> the advertisements that they play, not that often but since I can get   
   >> rid of them, I did so. (they are easy to spot, 1/10th the size of songs,   
   >> plus they all have the same or similar names, names that are not the   
   >> names of songs.  There were about 240 out of the 1700)   
   >>   
   >> This left 1357.  By sorting alphabetically, one sees that ome songs   
   >> appea only once, some twice, and many 3 times.   
   >>   
   >> Well, they've taken small steps against my plan by putting a little   
   >> advertising within the song files, but a small amount compared to what I   
   >> deleted.   
   >>   
   >> If you use VLC and some other software, it plays them in alphabetical   
   >> order, no matter what order they are on the flashdrive.  How about that.   
   >> But the gizmo I have that plugs into the cigarette lighter and xmit to   
   >> the radio plays in the order they exist on the drive.  The car I rent   
   >> will probably have a usb input, and I don't know what order they will   
   >> play in.  I've also got a tiny mp3 player that connects with a 1/8"   
   >> audio cable. That plays in the order I want.   
   >>   
   >> For some reason, 5 seconds or so of the next song ae in the privious   
   >> song's file, so if you don't play them in the original order, all the   
   >> songs start 5 seconds in, and end with 5 seconds unrelated to the song   
   >> before or the song after.   
   >>   
   >> Then I copied all of them to the flash drive it used whatever order was   
   >> in the File Manager (with a gui). But I couldnt tell for sure what order   
   >> they were in without TCC/LE and  dir /o:u .   
   >>   
   >   
   >I think this could be repaired, but you'd have to be one   
      
   I don't know what you mean.  There is nothing to repair.   
      
   >clever geek to take low-bitrate Internet Radio recordings   
   >and have a pleasant recording after you were finished   
   >modding it.   
   >   
   >If an NTFS file system is brand new, and you record songs   
   >sequentially in a single folder, the "nfi.exe" listing   
   >of filenum slots and their filename entries, will be in   
   >the order of recording.   
   >   
   >You could benefit from a lossless splicer for MP3s.   
      
   I'm sure the "splices" are lossless. That is, it doesn't actually splice   
   files.  It plays them one after another, and when they are in the right   
   order, the last 5 seconcs of one song come from the first 5 seconds of   
   the next file.  When I listen, I never hear the transition.   
      
   >Does FFMPEG have that ? Dunno. But by the songs all   
   >coming across from one radio station, maybe the bitrate   
   >is stable for long periods of time.   
   >   
   >   Paul   
      
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