Quote Originally Posted by Frankenstrat View Post
Yes, they do play in alphabetical order, but I would prefer them to play in the sequence in which I originally copied them (one at a time) onto the USB pen-drive.

Thinking about this a little more I've just realised what happened. I have a huge number of MP3s on my hard drive, the vast majority of which are non-commercial recordings. I listened to each one for a few seconds and decided whether or not to drag and drop it onto the USB drive. Listen, DnD, listen DnD etc.

I played this in the car and it did indeed play in the order they were dropped onto the USB drive. However, some of the names of the tunes were so long that they would bleed off the end of the screen. So I took the USB drive out of the car and shoved it into a USB port on my PC at home. I went through and edited all of the names such that they would fit onto the screen. So, for example "dan_thompson_band_mandomadness_192_mix3" became "DTB Mando Madness". So having renamed most of the tunes on the USB drive the table of contents (TOC) was rewritten and that's why it now plays in alphabetical order. The only solution to this so far as I can see is to dump the tunes onto my HDD, erase the USB drive then drag the tunes back one by one in the order I want them to play in. I'll give this a burl over the weekend and report back.
Sounds like user error .

It has nothing to do with what order they are copied onto the USB. It may be worth making sure all the ID3 tags/file names are neat, and place each albums in it's own folder. You are able to brows by artist, album or song etc and will be in alphabetical order.