NexSort

2002-09-10, 22:00
FATSort has got an own homepage here.

2002-09-09, 11:50
As I wrote below - NexSort development has been canceled. Its successor is called FATSort. FATSort will not use the operating systems file operations to reorder the files. Instead it will (as the name implies) work directly on the fat of the Compact Flash card (or any other removable fat-16 drive). Since a program error in this program can be pretty fatal (ruining the fat, basically ruins every thing on the disk), there will be no public beta available until I feel I that the program is stable enough and I have implemented the functions I want. (Support for single-directory play lists is one of these things).

This program will probably only work in Windows 2000. It probably also needs to be run as an administrator. I will look into the requirements when the program is ready for a public release. I have also found out more stuff on the NexSort and occasional crashes of my Nex. This is not caused by a malfunction in NexSort. This will eventually occur if you move files/folders to your Nex without a reformat now and then. NexSort nearly speeded the process up a bit. I have contacted Frontier Labs about this, and await an answer from them. Hopefully, this is something they can replicate and not only something that depends on my system configuration/CF-brand.

If you feel you have to tell me something, don't use the yahoo forum since some people rather discuss impedance of their headphones that read about this program (don't get me wrong here, I have found that discussion interesting to, at least the first couple of postings). If you want to say something, send me an email and I might consider answering.

2002-09-06, 22:43
My new pet (alias FATSort) has just taken her first stumbling steps. Congratulations FATSort!

2002-09-06, 22:42
Since I have fixed everything people so nicely have pointed out regarding NexSort, there will be no further active development of NexSort.

2002-09-06, 10:10
Public beta 0.9.5 is released. NexSort should now work on windows 9x as well as on Windows 2000.

2002-09-05, 13:20
New public beta is released. See included history-file for changes. Cancel still doesn't work. Win98 is still uncertain since no one gives me feedback. Post feedback at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nexiimp3/.

2002-09-04, 11:07
Fixed (not verified) some problems with the expire-date, making NexSort impossible to start in countries with "wrong" date-format.

2002-09-03, 13:30
A new public beta is released. Sorting should work now. Although, the sorting may seem strange, this release is mainly for evaluation of the sorting algorithm, not the sorting order. Also note that the cancel-button doesn't work at the moment. Also, I have had kind of a bad day today - you use this utility at your own risk :)
Have been told it doesn't work on windows 98. I will look into this later.

2002-09-03, 01:42
After a complete rewrite of the sorting core and some different algorithms, I might have got it working :). At least it didn't crash on my excessive (2) test runs. I haven't completely finished it (hope those needed changes doesn't screw the whole thing up again). If it still works tomorrow, all I have to do is to implement functions to show statistics and make it possible (if possible) to cancel a sort operation (seems overkill to have it multithreaded if it doesn't respond when it's busy :)

2002-09-02, 11:10
Ok, I got my Nex back, great support Advanced Mp3 Players! I have also been able to verify that the sorting-algorithm still makes my Nex crash on subfolders. I will look into this and fix it as soon as possible (I'm waiting for some documentation on Fat16).

2002-09-01, 21:36
First official beta of NexSort is released. After some late bug-fixes, it should work on Windows 98 as well. It is still unsure if it works as expected, since I have given my Nex II the flash of death. Before this, I had some problems with my crashing upon entering subfolders. I blame 1.42 for this, and hope I can get away with it. I should receive a new Nex in a couple of days. Then I will be able to evaluate the current sorting algorithm.

2002-09-01, 18:00
A homepage for the NexSort utility is constructed. It will temporarily (?) be placed at http://hem.passagen.se/chsw/NexSort.html. Since there is no support for PHP, this will be a simple HTML-page.