[wplug] About the vfat

[Cameron McBride]

Not a solution to the problem at hand, but maybe a workable sidestep:
use something like mp3 wrap on your Beethoven. It's playable and will
preserve the order!


On 6/7/07, Diana A. Clarion <dclarion at fnordnet.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Tom.
>
> I don't *think* that you're missing any point, it's all user preference.
> Unlike most riders of the 61C, I'm listening to *Beethoven* on my MP3
> player, so the order in which the player finds the files becomes
> important.  I'd like to be able to fall through each movement of the
> Eroica Symphony, for example, in order, just as Herbie von K would have
> presented them.  My player is so cheap that it doesn't show anything
> more than an index number for each file, so I'd have to *remember* the
> order in which the files appeared in the directory for the purpose of
> pushing the little button to find the one I wanted.  I have the memory
> of an elephant; what's an elephant got to remember?
>
> On a directory that's seen deletions and additions, I'm not guaranteed
> that files will appear in the order I sent them over; it's all about the
> chain of deleted inodes or vnodes.  Ergo, I was hoping for some way I
> could shuffle the nodes manually.  If it's not to be, it's not to be.
>
> Incidentally, though, I've found one thing that mildly annoys me about
> Ubuntu and its hotplugging.  I bought and installed dosfstools for the
> purpose of making filesystems on SD cards, but Ubuntu won't let me use
> it.  I can't make a new filesystem on a mounted card -- of course -- but
> if I umount the card, the system won't see it, even if I kluge an entry
> in /dev.  It's only a mild annoyance, though, and besides, there's
> another system here that *will* let me use dosfstools.
>
> DAC
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