iRiver plays files in order they were saved

[chombee]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:14 +0900, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 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.

Yeah I think the iriver is to blame rather than nautilus. It is a bit
dumb that it can only play files in order of their modification time and
not in filename order or something sensible.

On the other hand perhaps nautilus could set the modification times to
match the filename order of the files when a folder is transferred,
since that appears to be the order in which the files are transferred
anyway. Hardly a crucial feature for a file manager but it would help
with this problem. Apparently Finder does not do this either. But from
Steve's post it seems rsync does.

Oh well. I'd consider feature-requesting this to the nautilus people but
I suspect they have better things to work on.