I made the following discovery the first time I dumped an audiobook onto a 2gb SD card and dropped it into my Milestone. Thinking I was crazy with the results I got, I tried it in the R9--same thing. The result was that the files played totally out of order, but always the same order, so I knew it wasn't a shuffle mode that was at fault. I did a little reading-up on how these SD cards work, and it turns out that they are formatted using the old FAT16 *8 by 3) file system that we all remember from DOS and Windows 2 and 3. Be mindful of this when you load files with long filenames from your XP machine onto these SD cards. They'll take the file, even name it correctly, but when the R9 or Milestone reads the card, it stops after the eighth character of the name, so if the unique part of the filename is after that, all bets as to what order the things will play in are off. Put the files through Bulk Renamer and cut off the most number of characters you can before the uniqueness of the filename comes up. For instance, in the file named "John Sandford - Easy Prey D01 track 01.mp3", you have two problems--first, cut off everything to the left of the first "01", and second, cut out the word " track " (that has a space on either side of it). This will leave you with filenames like 0101.mp3, 0102.mp3, etc.--all unique and auto-sorted correctly. You can always make a copy of the folder you wish to transfer to your FAT-formatted card first and do the renaming there.
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