XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 2/24/2026 1:21 PM, Chris wrote:   
   > micky  wrote:   
      
   >> Displaying the date does not show you which file appears first on the   
   >> media.   
   >   
   > What does that even mean? I suppose on a spinning magnetic drive it may   
   > have had some meaning, but on a flash drive it is meaningless.   
      
   "First" doesn't mean the storage position on the data media, but   
   the "first" entry in the directory of the FAT device. The player   
   just reads the directory and plays the files in the order they   
   are listed in the FAT directory. If you create a new folder and   
   copy files into this folder, the sequence in the directory is the same   
   as the sequence sorted by creation date. But if you delete some files   
   and copy some others, then the new files can use the free directory   
   entries from the deleted files and then the sequences differ.   
      
      
   >> Some devices play songs in the order they are stored on the   
   >> media.   
   >   
   > I find that *very* hard to believe.   
      
   That's the normal way, because this allows you to specify the   
   sequence in which the songs are played (independent from the   
   name or creation date).   
      
   But if you want it sorted by name or date, display the songs in the   
   desired order in Windows explorer, select the files and drag&drop them   
   to the USB drive. It is important to use the first of the selected   
   files for drag&drop, because this file is always copied first.   
   If the target on the USB drive is a folder, first delete and recreate   
   the folder or, if the target is the root directory, do a quick format   
   first, to be sure to have an unused target directory.   
      
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