Copy files in order alphabetical order

hi,
I have some music in a directory which contains sub-directories, e.g. artists.
When i copy this music to a usb/flash/pen drive for use in my car, i want it to be copied in the order i see it ordered on my computer, i.e. alphabetically. ATM it seems to copy the mp3 fies in, i guess, disks order.
I know there was some way on Windoze (holding the shift down i think) and i have tried that on Linux (MX-14.2) but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Please, please, please ... i want to play my music in the order i want - not some new variation on "shuffle".

not really sure what you are doing but the default behavior of the cp command is to replicate files and sub-directories (order shouldnt even matter) ?

i must be missing something, can you please re-state the issue you are having ?

Hello the order of play is part of the player not the order of saving
What is on the drive makes no difference.
Look for the car player manual and set it on the player.
Hope this helps

trev

Sorry but the order they are played is not set by the player, unless i select "random".

Check if your player can use a playlist instead of files/directories.

Notice the difference in these 2 listing. One in in alphpbetical order and the other is in the order the files were writen to disk.

Use the manual to confirm the other command flags you will need and write a script redirecting the output to a temp file. Read from that temp file to copy the music to the flash drive.

Delete the temp file
Done.

sorry, no.

it's a simple radio transmitter which sends a signal to my car radio.
i've tried copying just a few tracks, without using any directories or sub-direcotries, a numer of times and i'm confident that it plays tracks in the order they are copied to the disk, i.e. in disk order.

Sorry Dafydd but i am way too none-geek to understand your post ... assuming it was written in "geek".

Alternatively, if your post was written in Welsh: Sorry Dafydd but i don't speak Welsh.

Ditto, Klingon.

What does the order of copying have to do with anything? Once the files are on your drive, your "Music listening program" should be able to alphabetize them correctly.

An analogy might be:

I wrote the phone book from back to front. But how would you ever know that?

pllease read my earlier post:

Ok.

If it is reading from the inode, or the dir_index, then yes I guess it would be out of order.

If you want to easily copy files in Alpha order, without hacking cp, use rsync:

I have a couple of those simple FM music players, and yes, the players I have play songs in the order they were written to the player.

Make a temp directory, then use some of the tips given above to write copies of your music files it the order you want them to play, then copy that temp directory to the player and the then play order should be correct.

Doug G reiterated what I said. Actually I have the exact reverse problem that you do. My OS alphabatizes my list and I want it to be like it came off the CD.

I don't speak geek either. My Dafydd for David and Cealleigh for Kelly go to make up my Renaissance festival persona.

Copying in alphabetical order may help, but what happens when you want to add more files? This is a common enough problem that there is a program to deal with it - fatsort from http://fatsort.sourceforge.net/

Run it after copying any files to the USB stick and it will rearrange the FAT listing so that files appear in alphabetical order.

You can see the order in which files are found in a filesystem, which is what these basic MP3 players do, but using ls with the -U option.