I’v had this Aigital MP4 player for while (NTFS file system). When it was connected via USB on opensuse, I renamed all the files in a few folders to make the song title visible in the player.
‘01 artist name - song title’ → ‘01 song title’
Now the songs are out of order. In #1 is now at the end. Others have 3 or more files out of order.
I contacted tech support. The sorting order is based on creation date. So, I have to erase all the files in the folders(disordered). And copy each file one at time to get the order right again. That is 100’s of files.
To avoid copying all the files again and again, I’ve tried using the ‘touch’ command to alter the times and dates. This isn’t working.
for i in *.flac;do (touch -mt 11182245."${i:0:2}" "$i");done
filelist structure: [xx song title]
ls --full-time
The above code appears to work, but the player shows files (songs out of order). Copying the files one at a time does give an ordered list in the player.
Hi
But that would be correct the “Copying the files one at a time does give an ordered list in the player.” as that is when they have been created… likely ntfs wisdom… Script the copying to put in the order you want…
So, there is no command to change the time and date stamp to change the creation date of a file (NTFS file system)? To make the player order the files.
I need to write a bash script to copy files in order after deleting all files in that folder. ?
Tech support was specific: mp4 player sorts by file creation date in vfat file system.
I deleted all folders. If I copy the folders one at a time, they will appear as normal on the player. If I rename any file after that, the song order will be changed.
01_song1
02_song2
03_song3
04_song4
05_song5
mv 01_song1 01_song1a
Renaming that, will put it at the end of the song list on the player.
I found and installed fatsort. I get this message. The player uses a vfat file system.
#blkid -o list
device fs_type label mount point UUID
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sdc1 vfat (not mounted) E05D-07C6
#fatsort /dev/sbc1
check_mounted: Unable to get realpath of filename!
openFileSystem: Could not check whether filesystem is mounted!
sortFileSystem: Failed to open file system!
main: Failed to sort file system!
#fatsort /dev/sbc
check_mounted: Unable to get realpath of filename!
openFileSystem: Could not check whether filesystem is mounted!
sortFileSystem: Failed to open file system!
main: Failed to sort file system!
