# Car not playing in sequence from SD card **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/car-not-playing-in-sequence-from-sd-card/67116 **Category:** Support **Tags:** player **Created:** [January 10, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/car-not-playing-in-sequence-from-sd-card/67116 "2025-01-10T01:44:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/reason/32/18761_2.png) [@Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reason) #### Post date: [January 10, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/car-not-playing-in-sequence-from-sd-card/67116/3 "2025-01-10T23:19:20Z")
This is likely the case. I have an older (2012) car stereo that plays from a USB drive, but will play in the order the files are written to the USB drive. This order is effectively random, from a listener's point of view. I believe this is a limitation of the FAT drive formatting; your car may recognize the SD card if it's formatted NTFS or something else, but it may not. Mine doesn't. My solution is to use a freeware called DriveSort. This will rewrite the file allocation table (which is where FAT gets its name) in the order you have selected, usually alphabetical/alphanumerical. It's portable, meaning you don't have to install it - just download the executable, put it in a logical spot so you can find it later, and run the executable. There are other utilities available to do the same thing; this was the first one I tried and it worked, so I stopped looking. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/car-not-playing-in-sequence-from-sd-card/67116)._