CDROM to flash drive -
Kevin Martin
kevintm at ameritech.net
Fri Mar 18 20:02:57 UTC 2011
On 03/18/2011 02:43 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I bought a series of lectures and happily downloaded the first
> two series. Several weeks later I found that they had changed
> their system, installed a new "download manager" which rejects
> my Linux access.
>
> I protested and they sent me a set of disks, beautifully put up,
> etc. My problem is that each series, there are four, is on 12
> CD's, each of which has a dozen mp3 tracks on it. I need to put
> all of them on a flash drive to play in my digital audio book
> player.
>
> I copied each of 12 disks into separate directories, 0/ through
> 11/, that works fine they will play on Audacious, but when I try
> to copy them all into one directory which I named Flash/ using
> the file manager it insists on sorting them and completely
> destroys the order of things.
>
> I see no option to simply append as I paste.
>
> They have offered a refund, anxious to get rid of me no doubt.
> But I would like to make the copies rather than just give up.
>
> Perhaps someone can put me on the right track. I will provide
> more details if required.
>
> Bob
>
>
Are you trying to have a Flash/0 thru Flash/11 set of directories or are you trying to have *all* the files from the 0/ - 11/
directories directly under Flash/ ? I assume that the files on the 12 cd's are named similarly, hence the issue with sorting. If
you are trying to have all of the files under Flash/ you could do bulk renames of the files under each 0/ - 11/ directory such that
they reflect that directory structure (so all of the files under 0/ would be renamed to 00-<filename> and all of the files under 11/
would be renamed to 11-<filename>...then the sorting issue would be, pardon me, sorted.).
Kevin
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