On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:09:22 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > > copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. > > > > Contrary to the instruction manual, the player (a Creative MUVO) plays > > files in the order in which they are written to flash memory, so if I > > have an audio book with a hundred chapters on an ext3 drive and then > > copy the book to the mp3 player, the chapters do not necessarily play > > in proper sequence. > > I had a similar problem with a lousy mp3 player. What I did was copy > the files directory by directory. > > This does not work: > cp -r ~/mp3/a_directory /mnt/usb > > This works and mantains the order: > mkdir /mnt/usb/a_directory > cp ~/mp3/a_directory/* /mnt/usb/a_directory > > It is certainly a pain in the ass if there are several directories, > but at least it works. The * gets expanded to a file list in > alphabetical order.
What about this: find /your/source/ | sort | while read FILE; do cp "$FILE" /your/destination/; done Maybe you want to check the sort order before you do the actual copying: find /your/source/ | sort | while read FILE; do echo "$FILE"; done The sort command has various options to influence the sorting order; it might also depend on your LC_COLLATE setting (I am not sure about this). You can also use the find + sort combination to compile a rough playlist: find /your/source/ | sort > playlist.txt Then you can edit this playlist and afterwards copy the files in the same order as they appear in the modified playlist: while read FILE; do cp "$FILE" /your/destination/; done < playlist.txt -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
