Mega Stick 256 Tracks Playing Order

Question

Hi!
I just bought a MSI 256 MB; and I was wondering this... how does it select the songs to play... in which order?
Because it doesn't pick them according to the filenames, for what I have tried. I think it does it according to the name of the song in the ID3 tag.
Please; if someone knows it for sure, let me know. And also; what happens if the file doesn't have an ID3 name; if they are in different folders, and how does it pick WMA files, where the info these files save is different...?
Thanks in advance;
Dan_Aykroyd

Answer 1

Hi all,
I actually really like the MegaStick (good value for money) but the file organising system sucks massively (a MAJOR flaw with the design and one that if MSI cured I'm sure would boost sales! HINT HINT!)
I've tried changing the ID3 tags like everyone says but it still seems confused when track numbers go over 10.
I have ordered a folder 1,2,....,14 and the tracks play in the order 1,10,11,12,13,14,2,3,...,9 Grr! How do I stop this.
Someone (one of the posts) said they go by alphabetical order based on the first 6 characters.  This can't be true as I renamed the files and they were still in a weird order.  One thing I did try which I got strange results from was the following:
-Copy album to stick (check player and it indeed plays in weird order).
-Go and rename the tracks to a,b,c,d,... in the order they should play.
Not only do they play in order, but the stick decides to ignore the ID3 track name and put on screen /a,/b etc..(note the "/").  Only when I name things with one character does this happen?!?!?
Also, what was the deal about the post with recommended file names 111111_..., 111112_... ?  Does this mean label track 1 111111, track 2 111112 etc.?
Again, someone mentioned the folders play in alphabetical order, but I don't find this eiter.  Can anyone give me the official, bottom line, last word on this.  Please!
Cheers,
Parks