long sample names: not loading properly

I copy alot of samples from my PC to the harddrive in my 1000 and most of them have long names. Everytime I have a folder with something like:

Jackson_5_longsamplename_1.wav
Jackson_5_longsamplename_2.wav
Jackson_5_longsamplename_3.wav
Jackson_5_longsamplename_4.wav

in it the mpc cant display the whole name an somehow thinks its the same sample. every part I load sounds like the first one in the row.
Any idea how to fix this without changing samplenames? thanks in advance

max namelength is predetermined by the hardware. only a certain number of bits are allocated for the name of the file, if you exceed that limit, the OS will truncate the name, leading to the loading problem exactly as you described. keep namelength to 16 or fewer characters and you should be fine. ie,

J5_short_name_01.wav
J5_short_name_02.wav
J5_short_name_03.wav
J5_short_name_04.wav

electric dragon wrote:only a certain number of bits are allocated for the name of the file

Exactly right.

or put the numbers on the front. i do it like this 1name 2name etc.

then I gotta do some serious renaming now

now thats going to be useful.
thanks!

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