Organizing genre and artist in a folder structure You should need to anyway (yeah we are pointing at you over obsessive peeps) You can nest folders, but to be safe don’t go more than 3 levels deep. Most car audio systems have limitations on how many nested folders they will read and how many files inside of each folder they can read.

Copy the files through Drive Sort to the USB device and SHAZAM – the universe is back in order!.

Or manually arrange the files in Drive Sort by moving them around however you like.

Choose by long name (if your files are already sorted by a number like 001, 002, 003).

Open a folder full of audio files on your hard drive into Drive Sort.

Your audio player will keep the same order.Īgain, no geeky explanations here, just believe! With drive sort you can manually order your music, then copy that music to a USB. So now your job is to force or trick the drive into thinking the order you arranged your files is the same as the order they are copied.ĭrive Sort is a handy utility that makes the “copy order” the same as the visible order on your USB drive. The order your files appear in your USB drive IS NOT the same as the order they were copied to the drive. We promised we wouldn’t get techy, so we won’t 🙂Īll you really need to know is your audio player is reading the files in the order they were copied to the drive, NOT by the order, they are in when you view the drive. What is really going on behind the scenes is because of a techy mumbo jumbo thing called FAT file storage format. There are two likely scenarios The problem is your files are played in the order they were copied, not the order they appear in. Car audio players seemingly have a mind of their own. Why is the music out of order in the first place?

If yes, your car plays in FILENAME ORDERīAM!!!! Now you know which beat you need to slay.

Did they play in the same order as they appear on the USB drive?.

Note the order they appear in on the drive.

Copy a dozen or so music files to a USB.It’s easy to find out by doing a quick test …so that your ABBA will play before Metallica (doubt those would ever show up on the same USB, but you get the point) Step 1: Find out how your car stereo reads filesĢ. In this article, you will how to fix this problem… You go and check the usb stick and the files are sorted nicely. Your car audio player is playing your music files in some weird order.

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