Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Bruce Smith" <blubdog@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Istvan Gabor wrote:
> > Hello all:
> >
> > This question maybe OT but is related to linux:
> >
> > I've got an MP3 player that plays mp3 files in a strange order,
> > not alphabetically.
> > I've mounted the player and tried different listings by ls. I found
> > that the player plays the songs in the order of the inode
> > numbers:
> >
> >> ls -li|sort
> >>
> > command gives the same order as the player plays the files.
> >
> > Now I have two questions:
> >
> > 1.  The player's filesystem (SD card) is vfat.
> > Are there inode numbers in a vfat filesystem?
> >
> > 2.  How could I change these numbers of the files so that their
> > order would correspond to the alphabetical names of the files?

I deal with this problem on my mp3 player all the time, since I listen
to audio books, and the order of the files is very important.  :-)

I create a fresh subdirectory [per book] and copy the files to it in
the order I want them to play.

If I have to change anything, I create a new subdirectory and start
over.  When you start deleting and adding files, the order gets all
screwed up.

Normally a "cp *mp3 /media/usbdisk/subdir/" from bash works fine.
Graphical file managers may or may not work the same way.

I wrote a small shell script that checks to double check the order in
the directory is alphabetical:

#!/bin/sh
set -x
cd "${1:-dirname}" || exit
set +x
ls -1 > /tmp/bsdir1
ls -1U > /tmp/bsdir2
echo
echo Checking difference:
echo
diff -u /tmp/bsdir[12]
rm -f /tmp/bsdir[12]


> There is a small program in Suse that can help with this. I really don't
> remember the name of it, I'll check it tonight, but it is something like
> TAG...
>
> It lets you edit the file attributes of audio files, including song
> name, album, date, genre, and play order (by number). Easy to use, at
> least in KDE. Sorry I don't remember the name of it, but will send that
> later when I get to my Suse box.

"id3v2" is a shell command that views/changes/adds ID3 tags in mp3 files.

- BS