iRiver plays files in order they were saved

[Craig Puchta]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:47 -0800, Steve Grace wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:14 +0900, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 
> > On 28/01/2008, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
> > > Is this a nautilus 'issue'? (nautilus is doing something random to the
> > > mtimes when it finalises the transfer). Is there some way around this?
> > > Perhaps other file browsers would behave differently.
> > 
> > No, it's not nautlius. I used to have almost the same crap iriver
> > player you do and it always suffered from that issue, no matter if I
> > transferred files from linux/BSD/Mac with/without nautilus/finder.
> > Imho the only way to get around this is using the "manager" firmware
> > and their "Manager" software on Windaz or using ifp-line on unix.
> 
> I have a player that does that same thing. The solution I'm using is
> based on a tip that was posted a few months ago for an iRiver T60. You
> can use the "rsync" command to sync the player to a disk image of the
> music files. It mostly keeps things in alphanumeric sequence.
> 
> I can provide details if you like.
> 
> 
> 

I would like the details. I have the T60 and several audio books that I
stopped listening to because the chapters are played out of order, how
annoying. 
Feel free to email me direct if you don't want to post to list. Either
way works for me. :)

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