USB

[Max_Headroom]

I put several  albums of mp3's on a flash drive when I put it in the car usb port it lists the songs but if I look at the folders it doesn't list all the songs in each one, I can play all songs on the drive one after another but it's not very user friendly, I didn't format the drive before adding the music is this where I went wrong?

[flash22]

It's a bit picky, formatted in fat32 <32gb as it can make indexing take longer

No more than 8 folders deep and a max 255 files per folder, 256 character file names

Artist - Album - Tracks

It likes MP3s but not m4a

Do you have the nav ?

[Max_Headroom]

Thanks i will give it a go.

[Max_Headroom]

Sorry I don't understand do you mean each stick can only have 8 folders I have 24 in all.

[flash22]

The folder depth - a folder within a folder  max is 8, 5 or less is better

you can have up to 3000 total folders on the stick

 

 

[Max_Headroom]

Thanks I have bought a pack of 3 sanDisk 16GB sticks and have formatted the first to Fat32 I am transfering the files as I type this so fingers crossed it works.

[Max_Headroom]

Failed again 

Albums are there some are full some only have a few songs in them and other songs are scattered about randomly i have given up and will use the USB port to charge the phone and bluetooth songs to the car.

I have noticed you can use the forward and back button on the car system to move to the last and next track but the player i am using doesnt move to the next folder when the last song is played does anyone know of a player  that does this?

 

[flash22]

are all the tracks the same format

just try 1 or 2 albums on an USB stick

the USB has to be formatted in fat32, if you are a mac user there are issues with the way it formats in fat32

[Max_Headroom]

Thanks for the suggestion but i have given up i have spent too much time on this i have an ad free player on my android phone that  works perfectly using Bluetooth  not as convenient as having the folders etc on the car screen but i am happy with my set up knowing i can skip tracks using the forward button on the car head unit meaning i don't have to touch the phone.

[Janx1975]

Sounds like the metadata for the .MP3's might be mixed up.

Multimedia systems dont "see" folders like we do - they see what the metadata tags tell them. 

So you may have copied the mp3s to an album named folder, but the 'system' sees that it is somewhere else.

 

The easiest way to do this is to google "id3 tag editor" and look for a free version for home use.

You can then edit the "album name" meta data to be what you want it to be - it will then show up on the Multimedia display in the folders that we know it should be in.

 

(To explain further - you can physically copy the mp3 file to a folder on USB called "Pink Floyd" but the meta-data on the file either doesnt have an album name or has a different one. The result is that it isnt in the folder in the multimedia screen but IS in the folder on the USB stick).

Give it a try with one or two songs/folders and use the tage editor to see how it works.

 

Hope this helps.

 

[Max_Headroom]

Thanks Jankx but i am now done with USB i have wasted far too much time on it.

 

The good news is i have found an ad free music player (video below) that works great and allows me to use the steering wheel controls to move tracks i also bought a cup holder mount similar to this so i don't have trailing wires onto the dash its all working well and i have 125GB of space to play with (not that i will ever fill it)