Sorting of music and videos on SD card

[slats]

I have struggled with how the F series sorts the music and video folders on my F700BT and my F90BT for the month and a half that I've owned them. Has always seemed random sometimes and alphabetical other times.

 

So--of course I decided a while back to number my folders or files that I wanted to sort my way. Well--even that didn't seem to work. Some music/videos sorted the way I wanted but other folders weren't in the order I had numbered them in.

 

Now many of you smarter folks on here probably already figured this out--but for us slower folks--and I have a feeling I'm not alone in my slowness--this tidbit of info that I just discovered today may be helpful to you.

 

I was numbering my folders like a normal person--ie. Music or Video folder one I would number "1 Title or Artist", then "2 Title or Artist" etc. Well--the AVIC will sort those as Folder 10 and Folder 20!! So--to get the unit to sort your first 9 music or video folders the way you want you need to make all the digits double digits. In other words Folder 1 will be "01 Title or Artist" and Folder 2 will be "02 Title or Artist". Now maybe everyone else in the world knew this but I sure didn't until today.

 

If this is old news to everyone I apologize--just disregard this post. I do hope it helps others who have been baffled as I have at why I couldn't get music and videos in the order I wanted them on my SD card.

[wiretap]

Yup, lots of computer systems will sort like that. It's kind of annoying. I've found batch renaming your existing songs using the 01.. 02.. 03.. naming theme helps immensely on a wide variety of computer systems, whether it be an MP3 player, car deck, software player, etc. Then in the future you know how to name properly for picky devices/software.

[slats]

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