![]() Common operating systems don’t give you access to the raw on-disk lists (which is a good thing, as you should know very well what you are doing when you are messing with this kind of stuff), but there are tools available for this.Ī short Google search did not find a Windows tool that has a working “recursive mode” (that would allow it to sort a whole folder tree at once), but on Liunx, you have the fatsort utility, which can do exactly this. So how does this help us? Quite easy: All you have to do to have the files displayed and played in the correct order is to make sure that the list entries on disk are in the correct order (that is, for my naming scheme, sorted alphabvetically). But the Clip Sport does not re-sort the files for display & playback! However, Windows ignores the “natural” order of the list entries (the on-disk order), and displays the list entries using any sorting you choose (e.g. So if you have a list that contains (in “list order”) “artist A”, “artist D” and “artist X”, and you add a folder for “artist M”, the new list reads “artist A”, “artist D”, “artist X”, “artist M”. You add a new entry to one of these lists (by creating a new file/folder), and this new entry is simply appended to the end of the list - no matter where it would fit in e.g. So FAT basically manages everything you put on the drive as a hieracrchical set of lists. ![]() For any additional folder below the root, the position of the list on the drive is determined by the correcponding entry in the root list. If the object is a folder, it again contains a list of entries that word exacrly as for the filesystem root - with the only difference that for the root folder, the exact position of the luist on the drive is well-defined and identical for all drives. For each file/folder, the FAT entry contains information on ow to find the object on the drive (sector number), its size, modification date, and so on. FAT basically manages a list of files and folders that are stored within the root of the drive (e.g. ![]() Short technical background: I have my music on a µSDHC, which is formatted as FAT32. This led me to the assumption that the player does not do any alphabetical sorting by itself, but instead just dieplays the folders (and within a folder, all the files) in the order they were written to the player. On Linux, you can use the fatsort utility for this I have no idea if there are appropriate Windows tools around as well.įor the FOLDER play mode, your solution unfortunately didn’t work for me - my files already have names that start with two-digit numbers (01 - xxx, 02 - xxx, …), but the player still showed them in a random order.īut: When adding music from a new artist to the player, I noticed the artist’s name was not sorted alphabetically into the music that was already present, but appended to the folder list (my folder structure is \Music\artist\year - album\track - title.mp3). To make the player display your music in the correct (alphabetical) order in the FOLDER view, you need to properly sort the on-disk FAT filesystem structures, as the Clip Sport does seem to rely on them to be properly sorted. Here is a link to the latest version (Jan. This software includes a command to change 1-digit track numbers to 2-digit numbers. Once I decided I really enjoy using my cute little Clip Sport(s), using MUSIC playback mode, I decided I could easily resolve this minor nuisance using free mp3tag software. ![]() One easy fix for this confusing behavior is to create 2-digit track numbers in the ID3 tags for music files 1- 9 (01, 02, 03, etc). The Clip Sport and Clip Jam will confuse the play order of music files using MUSIC playback method for 1-digit track numbers. Unfortunately, iTunes uses 1-digit track numbers in the ID3 tags for tracks 1-9 during the CD ripping process. These 2 digit prefix filenames are perfectly compatible with the FOLDER playback method of Clip Sport and Clip Jam. I always observed that iTunes automatically creates 2-digit prefixes to CD music filenames during the “ripping” process. Even now, I continue to use iTunes to rip my CD collection into mp3 files for playback on my Clip Sport. Prior to my recent purchase of a SanDisk Clip Sport, I enjoyed using a few iPod & iPad devices from Apple along with music file management with iTunes software. ![]()
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