Copying files from konqueror

[Dotan Cohen]

I have a portable MP3 player that has the horrible habit of playing
songs in the order that they were copied to the device, not the order
that the ID3 tags suggest nor alphabetical order of the file names.

When I copy a folder from ~/music to the device (mount://sda) via USB,
the files are copied in some random order (at least, I don't
understand in what order they are copied). I need them to be copied in
alphabetical order of filenames, as I name the songs 01 - Title, 02 -
Another Title, and so forth. Yes, I use spaces in my filenames. The
delicate wife/ linux balance of our household does not support
underscores in filenames.

Note that if I order the files in alphabetical order in Konqi by
clicking Name, and then select all and drag the very first file over
to the device, they are copied in the correct order. However, this
takes me a long time as I must first create a folder, then do the
above procedure for each album- that's about 20 times (1GB device). If
Konqi would transfer in alphabetical order I could just select 20
folders (each is one album) and let it fly.

Any suggestions? I don't rule out a bash script to move the files, but
I don't know bash. Are there any alternative file managers that might
do this? Nautilus/ Midnight Commander? If anybody has these installed
I'd appreciate if you'd check thier behaviour, as I don't want to
install each and every file manager just to check this. Thanks, all.

Dotan Cohen.
http://simplesniff.com