Default file order of “dir” command in Windows console

Question

Just wondering how Windows determines file ordering when running a "dir" command (without any arguments) in a command prompt.

I know you can explicitly specify an order, but just curious how ordering works when no parameters are used. (I have a home stereo which can read songs from a usb drive, and it seems to play songs in the same order as that seen when I run a "dir" command on a windows XP command prompt. If I can figure out how the ordering works in a vanilla "dir" command, I might be able to control the play order of the songs on the stereo by changing certain attributes of the files).

Answer 1

dir (without arguments) command always shows files/dirs unsorted, in other words - in same order, as files/dirs are located on disk. NTFS file system "sorts" files/dirs internally (simplifying).

Thought, you may copy files one-by-one to achieve preferred sorting on your player.