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I have a sonivox speaker for travelling... it can read USB sticks and memory cards. But: Whenever I enter the USB stick, it will always start with the same song. Changing a song takes about 4 seconds. So skipping only 40 songs is gonna take you a while.

Is there some weird way I can't think of, of making the USB stick returning the next song randomly?

I was on the website of said vendor - they don't even list the product there. It is a latin american product, so I am not that surprised.

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  • Does it play them in order by file name? If so, I suppose you could randomize the file names for a little more variation. Oct 16, 2013 at 20:12
  • Does the sonivox support directories? If not just move the most recently played songs to a subdir.
    – Hennes
    Oct 16, 2013 at 20:29
  • Do they support m3u files, or any other playlist format?
    – Zoredache
    Oct 16, 2013 at 22:18
  • If you answer "yes" to the question posed by Kale then I can probably write something which randomly shuffles the files on the USB stick for you.
    – Richard
    Sep 6, 2017 at 7:38

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In general a device that reads from a USB stick without any options will simply pull it in alphabetical order. The only way to shuffle these songs is to actually rename them before putting the USB stick inside the player.

There are probably scripts you can write to automate this when you plug the USB stick into a computer/laptop but there isn't any sort of universal code that all players will adhere to and be instructed to randomize the songs.

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I think the best you can do is to rewrite the filesystem on the USB stick by clearing it out and then adding the files back in a new order. The player would then play them in that order until the next time you do this.

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You could shuffle the files' names, or change their ID3 tags, if the player is using that info to decide what order to go in.

But there is no way to really tell a player to force shuffle mode, sorry.

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  • you woulnt have to rewrite the filesystem. just rename the files, or change the tags, depending on how the player works
    – Keltari
    Oct 16, 2013 at 21:06
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Copy all your files from you computer's main music file and sync them to the usb drive Before you sync them - rearrange them the way you wish them played It worked for me

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The is a free program called MP3 Randomize you can insert into a folder with your mp3 songs. Run the program and it will replace the file name with a random number. Hence, your whole folder will be randomized. I did it on about on a flash drive containing about 7000 songs. Works like a charm.

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    – bertieb
    Jun 24, 2018 at 1:06
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    This answer would never work for the original poster. The person is traveling with a portable MP3 player and shuffling the songs on the USB flash drive with a program like this requires at least some working system to do that. What they are asking for is simply can the files be randomized on the USB flash drive itself without being connected to anything other that the player. Jun 24, 2018 at 1:23

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