FATSORT - Console App for macOS Catalina

This is a version of FATSORT (v. 1.6.2.605) that was modified to be able to compile for macOS Catalina.

Backstory

When using hardware devices to play music from SD cards or USB disks, you may find that they play files in non-alphabetical order. While this not a case for modern devices like iPhone, iPod or devices that Android base. However, this problem still exists on devices even at flagship car audio systems like Sony RSX-GS9.

There are a lot of other apps that can solve this problem, despite, FATSORT is the only one that can work at macOS.

How to Use

• Extract the source, copy fatsort file to any folder you want (for example to Downloads fodler).
• Open Terminal and change directory to the fatsort file location.

cd ~/Downloads

• Connect your flash drive and run mount command to see flash drive location.

mount

This image shows how to distinguish connected usb drive (highlighted with yellow) and it mounted volume path (highlighted with red).

• Run diskutil unmount “Volume”.

diskutil unmount /Volumes/WINVER1903X

• Run fatsort from Terminal with sudo and specify usb drive path.

sudo ./fatsort /dev/disk2s1

To pass a option command to FATSORT, read more about options here.

How to compile

• Download latest Xcode and Xcode command line.
• Extract the source, open Terminal and change directory to the source location (src folder).
• Build the software by running the make command.

Author

FATSORT written by Boris Leidner.

modified by Sherzod Khashimov.

License

Copyright © 2004−2019 Boris Leidner.

License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2.