jaugustine@verizon.net wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to everyone for your responses to my other post regarding a Cloner
SOLUTION:
I have been using WinZip 7.0 (Windows XP and earlier) for years. Normally, it did not matter the order of files and folders that I Unzipped.
I did NOT know that the Unzipped folders and files are in the original order.
I have several older PCs with WinXP (and earlier) with WinZip 7.0.
I decided to try it on this USB (FAT32) flash drive with music Albums in the order (NOT alphabetical) I like to hear on my stereo system.
BY GOLLY! when I UnZipped the zip file onto an empty FAT32 flash drive, the Albums and Songs were in the original order!
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Glad you found a solution.
Remains the/my/'our' question:
What software did you use to create the files on the original USB memory-stick?
I.e. what software puts those files in non-alphabetical order without prepending the names with track numbers, i.e. - as I wrote in my first
response in your first thread - like
01 <songname>.<ext>
02 <songname>.<ext>
etc.?
As I mentioned, most music programs ('rippers', etc.) generate
filenames like that, to *prevent* the very problem you were having (and essentially still have).
If you plug the USB memory-stick into your "stereo system" (AFAIK) you
didn't say how the USB memory-stick is used), you're lucky that that
stereo system is apparently 'dumb' enough not to sort the files in
alphabetical order.
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