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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   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 .   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)