When using hardware devices to play music from SD cards or USB disks, you may find that they play files in non-alphabetical order. In my case, the Pioneer AVIC-F940BT device in my car showed and played MP3 files in almost alphabetical order. The problem here is that these SD cards and USB disks use the FAT filesystem. They read the contents of the file allocation table as is, and do not perform sorting of their own. This means that the playing order is based on the order in which the directories and files were copied to the disk or card.
Luckily there is a way to sort these files again. For Windows, there is a program called FatSorter that works perfectly. Download from here if the previous link does not work. Select the drive or folder you want to sort and wait a few seconds/minutes for it to finish.
Is their program for the MAC ?
Tks
BM
Apparently THERE does not appear to be a version of this for Mac. But I bet you could find a FAT sorter for linux which could be used in OS X via the Terminal if you dig around a bit.
You could also set up boot camp or at least a Windows based VM- that’s what I do… I may not use it much, but occasionally I require the functions of Windows only software.
Hi,
I wrote a native macOS app to sort FAT drives. It has a UI, so easier to use, and it’s free and open-source.
You can find it here: https://fat-drive-sorter.netlify.app/
I hope it helps
thanks for your effort about fat sorter.
Sincerely yours,
I want to download this programm, but the second link doesn’t work, and the first one leads to [link removed]. And I do not undersdand how to downloand FAT Sorter. So could you plese help me?
I am unable to find the program now as well. Hopefully you can find it somewhere else.
I hope so too. Still thank you for your time and attention 🙂
Available at: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/FAT-Sorter.shtml (note: use the Softpedia download link option–the alternative External mirror download link did not work for me when I tried it just now).
Also, a nice alternative: Visual YAFS (“Yet Another FAT Sorter”). http://www.luisrios.eti.br/public/en_us/projects/visual_yafs/
I found the program here again: http://www.y-m-e.net/2010/08/fat-sorter-nun-stimmt-die-reihenfolge/
I’ve used this program a lot and it is simply not very reliable. Very common for it to totally make a mess or the ordering and lately it has mixed everything up every time.
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