Strange problem with folder behaviour (maybe mp3tags)

Hi,

I repeatedly experienced this problem with different audiobooks:
When drag'n'dropping a full folder of mp3 files (yes, the folder and NOT the single files from INSIDE the folder) into winamp the order of the files is not ok.

Instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
it somes starts at another number till the end and then begins with 1
ie. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5
or 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

the mp3 tags seem to be ok.
But when copying the files onto another drive (with dopus) and then putting these newly copied files into winamp it works fine.

Any idea?

the files have previously been copied to this drive (RAM disk) with 7zip. Maybe DOpus just uses the order that 7z used to unarchive it onto the drive?

If you drop a folder (not the files within it) on another program, then Opus (or whatever you drag from) will just tell that program about the folder.

What the program then does with the folder or the files inside of it is up to that program.

So the problem is with Winamp, and you'll probably see it behave exactly the same if you drag the same folder from Explorer to Winamp.

Winamp may be assuming that the filesystem lists files in alphabetical order, which is true of NTFS but not of FAT, for example.