Please tell me that these were files that were still in MP3 format? OMG that would save me SOOOO much time.

 

Musta missed it, my bad.

And if someone tells me that I can copy an MP3 CD to my hard drive I'm going to be very annoyed at how much time I wasted burning audio CDs...

Do you really need to preserve the date/timestamp of your downloaded (err...backed up ) music?

 

Sorry guys (and gal). That was a typo. I meant to write burned audio CD (CDAs) that was burned from an MP3 to CDA conversion.

Good catch. My remark came in response to the claim that you can burn only original CDs...

 

Correct,,, one can copy any AUDIO CD to the music box, ie , orginals, home made copies/duplicates, or audio CD created from Mp3 flies.

 

recursive copy doesn't necessarily require creation time preservation. There are plenty of times when I copy something that I actually WANT the new times to reflect the copied time and not the original time.

having to burn mp3s to CDA, then rip them back sucks. The bit rate on the musicbox is already crappy enough as it is. Having to deal with it from a lossy source sucks even more. I'll stick with using my lame encoded mp3s on my ipod or cf card

 

Hey everyone,

I think I know why you guys are having issues with Windows copy to copy files to your CF card. Just make sure that after you highlight the files you want to copy over, that you drag them to the compact flash directory by clicking on the first file and then drag it over. If you don't, then the first file going to the CF card is the file you clicked on when you did the drag and then every file after that, then it will copy over the first files and down when it gets to the end.

For example, if you highlight 20 mp3 files to copy over, and you click on the 10th file and drag them over, the order displayed in the G will start with that file.

I got my CF card today and tested it out that that is indeed the case.

I've also noticed that when you copy over a whole folder, it will begin with the first file in that folder.

Hope that helps.

 

Thanks for the very cool observation! I wonder if it would work if you selected from bottom up like so:

1. Click on last file/directory.
2. Hold down shift.
3. Click on first file/directory.
4. Drag and drop.

 

Hmmm... Not sure if that will work. I don't think it matters how it's selected, just where you clicked when you drag it over.

However, if you selected from the bottom up, you're more likely to drag from first file/dir, right?

 

Guys,

I compared XCOPY vs Explorer DRAG, and the resulting file entries (a HEX dump on the sectors) are exactly the same.

The only difference is that XCOPY uses "incomplete" and then renames the file and there's a "deleted" entry called "incomplete" after.

Other then that, it looks absolutelly the same.

In regards to file ordering, there are tools, that could re-order your entries in any order you liked. At least for DOS.
There was a tool from the Norton DOS toolset, that could "optimize" your directories by ordering all your entries alphabetically.