SD card wont list mp3s alphabeticaly on my headunit

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SD card wont list mp3s alphabeticaly on my headunit

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anyone know how to make them alphabeticly? its driving me mad, they show up on the headunit in the order i added the files, so the last song i added is at the end.
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is there no way of sorting them on the pc, if it could be done i would say sort them some way on your pc
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they are all in order on the pc on the sd card, yet in headunit all over the place in order of added
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is there a shuffle mode on by any chance
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na shuffles not on, had a fiddle with the headunit and cant find anything that would affect it. really annoying me, must be a way?
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ye must be the way mate,

bit of a pain that tho 8)
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2 quetions what sort of radio is it, and what did you use to put the songs onto the sd card ie drag and drop, i tunes, windows media player or something else
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was just dragging from my documents into the drive, is there a better way? and ive sorted it now using a program called drivesort which puts it in order, although its a pain having to use this program once ive dragged the files onto the drive, dunno if theres another way?
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try just syncing what you want with windows media player or itunes it usually puts them in order and sorts out the id tag.
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today i found out by reading my alpine instructions that its the head unit that plays them in the wrong order

i made a cd yesterday to play in the car and it shuffles all the songs ,

when i put in pc its all in order

so its the actuall radio that is the problem, nothing you can do thats just the way they play
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bloody japanese electronics
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This sounds familiar, do a google search for an mp3 tag editor, you'll find the mp3 tag differs from the filename.
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