Organizing your USB flashdrive
03-31-14, 05:32 AM
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Let me take a stab at this
I looks like you are trying to sync your usb to media player
and create playlists on drive
to add music to usb for car I have found you need to do this out of media player and as files
I create a folder lets say disco
then I manually copy the individual mp3 files to the folder
you cannot move the folder the mp3 is in only the mp3 file
so I would have a folder of disco with 20 songs copied into it
I create my folders like playlists and move individual items rather than whole albums of songs
I am using a 16gb sandisk filled with 13gb of mp3 this way and plays perfect in a ML
Hope this helps
I looks like you are trying to sync your usb to media player
and create playlists on drive
to add music to usb for car I have found you need to do this out of media player and as files
I create a folder lets say disco
then I manually copy the individual mp3 files to the folder
you cannot move the folder the mp3 is in only the mp3 file
so I would have a folder of disco with 20 songs copied into it
I create my folders like playlists and move individual items rather than whole albums of songs
I am using a 16gb sandisk filled with 13gb of mp3 this way and plays perfect in a ML
Hope this helps
03-31-14, 02:11 PM
#63
Let me take a stab at this
I looks like you are trying to sync your usb to media player
and create playlists on drive
to add music to usb for car I have found you need to do this out of media player and as files
I create a folder lets say disco
then I manually copy the individual mp3 files to the folder
you cannot move the folder the mp3 is in only the mp3 file
so I would have a folder of disco with 20 songs copied into it
I create my folders like playlists and move individual items rather than whole albums of songs
I am using a 16gb sandisk filled with 13gb of mp3 this way and plays perfect in a ML
Hope this helps
I looks like you are trying to sync your usb to media player
and create playlists on drive
to add music to usb for car I have found you need to do this out of media player and as files
I create a folder lets say disco
then I manually copy the individual mp3 files to the folder
you cannot move the folder the mp3 is in only the mp3 file
so I would have a folder of disco with 20 songs copied into it
I create my folders like playlists and move individual items rather than whole albums of songs
I am using a 16gb sandisk filled with 13gb of mp3 this way and plays perfect in a ML
Hope this helps
Thanks for your reply, but I don’t understand.
So instead of moving whole albums onto the drive at once, I should move individual tracks at a time? How that would make a difference if the file structure is the same?
What I have now is a drive, the root directory of which contained folders for different albums, which contain individual tracks themselves; I don’t think it can be any cleaner.
Any additional thoughts? I’d really like to get down to the bottom of this!
Thanks again!
Last edited by dbs600; 03-31-14 at 02:49 PM.
03-31-14, 03:07 PM
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I don't know why this works
but this is how it was shown to me and I do have this working
no root directory on flash drive
just the file folders you create
and yes you must move individually the mp3 file and not the album file
for some reason the album folder is not understood
or has imbedded confusing info for system
also
when you get this running there is a freeware program called mp3gain
that you can run on these folders you created and it will level recording volume differences
good luck
but this is how it was shown to me and I do have this working
no root directory on flash drive
just the file folders you create
and yes you must move individually the mp3 file and not the album file
for some reason the album folder is not understood
or has imbedded confusing info for system
also
when you get this running there is a freeware program called mp3gain
that you can run on these folders you created and it will level recording volume differences
good luck
03-31-14, 04:04 PM
#65
I don't know why this works
but this is how it was shown to me and I do have this working
no root directory on flash drive
just the file folders you create
and yes you must move individually the mp3 file and not the album file
for some reason the album folder is not understood
or has imbedded confusing info for system
also
when you get this running there is a freeware program called mp3gain
that you can run on these folders you created and it will level recording volume differences
good luck
but this is how it was shown to me and I do have this working
no root directory on flash drive
just the file folders you create
and yes you must move individually the mp3 file and not the album file
for some reason the album folder is not understood
or has imbedded confusing info for system
also
when you get this running there is a freeware program called mp3gain
that you can run on these folders you created and it will level recording volume differences
good luck
Can you please post two screen shots of your drive like what I did a few posts back?
04-02-14, 08:11 PM
#66
So I tried it; I formatted the drive; made new folders and manually brought the tracks into the new folders, but it didn't work. 
The car scrolls through the flash drive contents (didn't have as many files as I had previously) and states "No Music Files".
These are WMA's; they should play, right!?
The car scrolls through the flash drive contents (didn't have as many files as I had previously) and states "No Music Files".
These are WMA's; they should play, right!?
Last edited by dbs600; 04-03-14 at 08:07 AM.
04-07-14, 07:07 AM
#67
So I tried it; I formatted the drive; made new folders and manually brought the tracks into the new folders, but it didn't work.
The car scrolls through the flash drive contents (didn't have as many files as I had previously) and states "No Music Files".
These are WMA's; they should play, right!?
The car scrolls through the flash drive contents (didn't have as many files as I had previously) and states "No Music Files".
These are WMA's; they should play, right!?
04-24-14, 03:43 PM
#69
Finally got my USB drive to work (converted WMA's to MP3's, even though WMA's should've worked), but now have the prolem depicted by the photos attached, which is that the folders on the drive are not displaying in alphabetical order (“GoodFellas” is “1” going to “AM Gold 1972” as “2” then the list continues in alphabetical order until “Yanni”, which is “67” followed by “Everything but the Girl” as “68”, and continuing in alphabetical order from there. Strange, right!? Any fix for this!? Ttried plugging and unplugging the drive, restarting the car, etc. all to no avail...
Last edited by dbs600; 04-24-14 at 03:58 PM.
04-28-14, 11:34 PM
#71
Finally got my USB drive to work (converted WMA's to MP3's, even though WMA's should've worked), but now have the prolem depicted by the photos attached, which is that the folders on the drive are not displaying in alphabetical order (“GoodFellas” is “1” going to “AM Gold 1972” as “2” then the list continues in alphabetical order until “Yanni”, which is “67” followed by “Everything but the Girl” as “68”, and continuing in alphabetical order from there. Strange, right!? Any fix for this!? Ttried plugging and unplugging the drive, restarting the car, etc. all to no avail...
06-19-14, 04:34 PM
#72
I've finally converted all my songs over to my USB drive. I can't seem to get the album cover to display. I've tried setting the images to cover, as well as artist in the ID3 tag but it's not showing up on the player. Does anyone know what ID3 field should be used for the image?
12-13-18, 07:17 AM
#73
I know this post is old but make sure your flash drive is formatted with MBR partition, FAT32 and not GPT. You may use an old USB that was an installer, format it, but it will never be recognized with GPT.
12-13-18, 01:36 PM
#74
Sort your files in different folders.
However, each song will have an mp3 tag to it, so you also have to alter this tag.
If you do not do that, one folder containing one artist will be listed with several differnent names of the same artist if you tell the car to play an artist by voice comand.
If you just use the buttons to select songs and only select song from the folders you have created, you'll be fine without altering the mp3 tags.
However, each song will have an mp3 tag to it, so you also have to alter this tag.
If you do not do that, one folder containing one artist will be listed with several differnent names of the same artist if you tell the car to play an artist by voice comand.
If you just use the buttons to select songs and only select song from the folders you have created, you'll be fine without altering the mp3 tags.
12-13-18, 01:40 PM
#75
In Windows, if you select "properties" when you right click a file in Explorer, you will see a "Details" Tab and that has list of metadata for the track. You can do it manually or use an app to set those keys.
