I am using Nero 6.0.0.19 to burn serveral folders of mp3 on a cd for my portable mp3 cd player. I notice that nero actually burn the files in reverse order!
I want to ask if any program can make cd that sort the files physically on the cd so that it can be read more readily in my portable cd player. It should save the batteries a little bit.

I never experienced that kind of problem, although I did use Nero for quite some time now... maybe it's a bug in .19, cause I recently did a compilation with .15... stupid question, but are you sure you didn't mess up setting or something?

burnatonce can do it.
You go to the DATA CD mastering window and in the "settings" screen be sure to uncheck "rearrange folders".
This will burn them in alphabetical order.
I think this is what you want, is it?

In the old times of Easy CD Creator 4, there were several options to physically sort files on the CD. I never got the newer versions.

There's no such setting in burnatonce. burnatonce always writes folders/files alphabetically.

Jamie

I've experienced similar problems with all of Nero 6 series.

If you look closer to it, it aparently sorts by date (newest first, IIRC).

Please excuse me if this is a naive response, but can you not just click on the column headers (Name, Type, Size, Date, etc.) in your compilation before burning, and achieve whatever kind of sort you want?

Regards,
Madrigal

Most hardware (if not all of them) sort by the file name... Put the track number 1st in your file name.

Make sure the numbers go 01, 02, 03, 04..... and not 1, 2, 3, 4....

always works for me.....

Just found out, that reversing order is quite a known problem of Nero 6.

Nero 5 doesn't have it, AFAIK

Edit: just a hurry' typo

I know they can "display" them as sorted by file name. What I want to have is to sort files "physically on cd" so that they can be read continously without moving the lens too much.

Well, yes of course, but Nero writes them 04, 03, 02, 01... And that's the problem

That's too bad.