Cars play songs on flash drive in alphabetical order by file name.

[J. P. Gilliver (John]

You're welcome.

Any chance of a URL? Sounds potentially useful. (Though I'd probably forget I had it after a while!)

I don't know what "DOS" dir actually does if you don't give it the /o: parameter at all. []

(Not relevant, but it does amaze me how electronics has progressed. I already had something to play MP3s [my SatNav/GPS], which I played through a cassette adapter; when I had to change car, and got one that didn't have a cassette slot, I was amazed to be able to get a fully synthesized stereo FM transmitter gizmo for 3 pounds 20 [probably $3 in US] - even with a rechargeable battery and charging circuitry built in. [Though my faith was somewhat restored when I found it has the channels transposed {which doesn't really bother me}.])

Oops - I had been deleting that for non-UK 'groups. The petition only got 330 signatures in the six months anyway )-: [first threshold is

10,000 where you get a government reply (100,000 gets you a debate in parliament)].

[micky]

TCC/Le is the free one.

Alphabetical by file name.

I left something out. When watching the screen with RadioMaximus, you can see that the caption, the song title, changes a little before the song is over, and at least with the music stations I listen to (100FM and 181FM), the songs are stored individually, but the first 2 or 3 seconds of each song is at the end of one file, and the next file starts

2 or 3 seconds into the song.

Well, with the $16 gizmo, I can't hear the transition at all, even when I try, and I tried several times (and I didn't try 100's of times, but would have noticed anyhow). It goes straight from one file to the next. (If the songs didn't span files you'd expect a moment of silence between them, but here there is no silence. It sounds perfect.)

But with every car radio, Mazda, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, there was a moment, a full second, of silence or maybe not even silence, but a tiny thud or click, 2 or 3 seconds into every song.

Cheap is sometimes better.

I can't try it with my 2005 Toyota becaus it has no USB input (other than one or another gizmo.)

You're right.

Wow.

[J. P. Gilliver (John]

Thanks for those. (I wondered why you gave two until I looked at the first one: in my browser at least, the first one - that tells me about it - almost uniquely, has no link to the download one!) []

When I play mp3s on my SatNav, it plays a little blip at the start of any file, that comes from a few seconds into the file.

I've often found that! []

It's not a bad system: tends to get misused as a measure of public opinion (which it isn't - it only counts supporters for any petition, not those against [that's what my petition was about]), but at least it gives _some_ input for the populace. (The "debate" at 100k is _not_ necessarily - usually isn't - in the main chamber as seen on TV; it's usually in a committee room somewhere. [And usually a better debate for that.])

[nospam]

yes it does.

there are two download links, a green button and an orange button, for

32 & 64 bit versions, and appear at the top *and* the bottom of the page. it's impossible to miss.

there is also a separate download link at the top right of the page, which goes to the second link listed above for all of their products. that link is also a drop-down menu to directly download the specific product.