music on memory stick

[mikkin59]

I put music on a memory stick to play on car stereo but no matter what order i put it on the stick it seems to play it in a different order on the stereo. And when ive tried it in a mates car its been a totally different order. Ive made sure the "random play" is off. The funny thing is, when I put it back in the PC to look at the listing it has totally changed to the order that i put it on......Is it possible to have it play in the order I put the music on? Many thanks.

[Mobius1]

The memory stick is basically just a data folder as far as your car stereo is concerned. When you put songs on it in a "certain order" on your PC, what's actually happening is that your PC operating system is applying some sort of sorting logic to the files. You can choose this logic by using the "sort by" function. So it could be track number, file name, album name, date added etc. Essentially though, the order and location of the files on the stick could be anything, the only thing that the sort by option changes is how the PC displays this information to you. So....

When it comes to your car stereo, unless there are settings on it to be able to sort the music files into a specific order, you're probably stuck. All it's going to do is recognise the music files on the stick and then play them according to it's own logic. Probably by file name, or by some other data descriptor that's embedded into each individual music track's properties.

[mikkin59]

Thanks for that....... I guess that would also apply for a memory card?

[Wak]

Have you tried adding a number before the song title on the memory stick, i.e. 001, 002, 003,.etc.???

[rojash]

^^^
That's how I do it - rename the tracks to include a number to indicate the required playing order

[mikkin59]

I never thought of that. Ill give it a go. Thanks for the answers

[society]

I have the same problem with a Sansa Fuze MP3 player and I did try the number thing and letters in alphabetical order. But that didn't work for me.