I just bought a little portable stereo that I can put an SD card or flash drive into and it will play the songs on the drive. I have several thousand Mp3’s on my computer and I want to be able to put them on the drive or card and play them. The stereo has nothing but, play, FF, rev, and skip forward or back functionality. All of my files, of course, have titles, lengths and dates. Some have artists, some album name, and some genre. The problem I have is that I can only save them to the drive in alphabetical order (and maybe by length, date, album ect) I want to save them ‘randomly’ or in a shuffled list. This way I do not have to listen in alphabetical order or to all one artist then all of the next, ect. Is there a program which will shuffle already saved filed on a drive or at the least save them ‘randomly’ without having to rename 3000 files one way or the other and allow me to have a random playlist going? Windows does not have a ‘random’ view and I am sure this would have to come from a 3rd party program.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
Solved Saving Files In Random Or Shuffled Order
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I know of no program available that does that. However, what you can probably do is write a batch file that will add random numbers to the files after they are on the flash drive. It would first have to count the number of files present.
Ask this new question on the Programming forum and it is likely someone can produce a script for you. You could copy this batch file onto the flash drive to run it then delete it once it has finished. I’m not clever enough but feel sure it is possible.
Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks