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Music via USB drive
- Thread starter donskibeat
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I tried the USB stick which played songs AOK in my C8 Corvette. The C8 recognized the HFS+ format. The Emira failed to even see the stick in the USB2 plug-in. I then reformatted the stick on my Mac, from HFS+ to ExFAT and VOILA!: the Emira now recognizes the USB stick and plays songs on it. Unfortunately I had to erase hundreds of songs on the USB stick during the reformatting process, but at least I’ve now got functioning USB in the Emira.
but how about album cover arts? It takes like 3-4 minutes to load my Album cover arts off a USB 3.2 USB-C drive but the folder option loads almost right away.Works nicely on mine, superfast loading of tracks too!
You probably are using a slower rated USB stick. They sell them in different "speeds" sometimes one brand works better than the other. On my Emira it loads everything in milliseconds.
The Sandisk Ultra Fit 128Gb, it's rated at about 400MB/s read speed. Should do the job. Better to organise the tracks, in folders.
Bulls-Vivid-Red
Well-known member
I have 40GB of music on a UBS-C 3.2 (exFAT), all artists and albums separated into folders and it takes roughly 3 minutes to index everything. The sorting within albums is seemingly alphabetical, but seems to ignore leading track numbers in the file names.
It's absolutely ridiculous that the system default makes you manually select the USB source and indexes every file/song from scratch each and every time.......even if you were just listening to it on your last drive.
Maybe I'm missing something here, does anyone know if there is a way to have the music default back to the last source used? Cars from over a decade ago continue music exactly where you left off, does the Emira have this ability? As of right now it really seems that the best solution is for me to use Android Auto each and every time.......
It's absolutely ridiculous that the system default makes you manually select the USB source and indexes every file/song from scratch each and every time.......even if you were just listening to it on your last drive.
Maybe I'm missing something here, does anyone know if there is a way to have the music default back to the last source used? Cars from over a decade ago continue music exactly where you left off, does the Emira have this ability? As of right now it really seems that the best solution is for me to use Android Auto each and every time.......
Yea, Not remembering the last source used, playing in alphabetical order. You can get around the play order by adding track number in front of the song title but you have to do it in every album.
Does anyone know if the USB port will support a portable digital music player like so of the high-end Sony Walkman?
That's what I use in my RS5 but since the Emira default to USB-C port, I got a USB-C Flash drive but I'll take the one off my RS5 and give it a try.
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Bulls-Vivid-Red
Well-known member
So to be clear, to get past the default alphabetical order I'd need to add the track number to the title listed under the properties/details tab? Only 5000 plus files to update LOL! Stinks that it won't honor the track number when it's literally already part of the name of the file itself, not to mention also part of the file details. I honestly could live with this if I could figure out a way to have the damn thing start up again at the place when I left off.
@Wiz33 I saw in another forum somewhere that portable digital music players are not supported. Lotus put just a basic navigation and audio software package on there and quite frankly expect people to user Android Auto or Apple Play for any form of advanced experience.
Before you do that try adding the track numbers as proper .mp3 file tags using this :
www.mp3tag.de
Maybe on just one folder as a test?
I only use iphone as a music source (which plays albums in the correct order via Carplay) so can't tell you for sure if it works from USB but could be worth a try, but my whole music library is properly tagged in any case.....
Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.
www.mp3tag.de
Maybe on just one folder as a test?
I only use iphone as a music source (which plays albums in the correct order via Carplay) so can't tell you for sure if it works from USB but could be worth a try, but my whole music library is properly tagged in any case.....
All my files have the proper track numbers in the file properties. I only have one album that will play in the proper order and when I examine the file properties. That one have the track number in front of the song title.Before you do that try adding the track numbers as proper .mp3 file tags using this :
Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.
Maybe on just one folder as a test?
I only use iphone as a music source (which plays albums in the correct order via Carplay) so can't tell you for sure if it works from USB but could be worth a try, but my whole music library is properly tagged in any case.....
Man.v.Cars
Emira Fan
My USB C works but not the older USB port next to it, tech at dealers tried my USB in another Emira and it wouldn't work, even though it works fine in 4 other cars.
Bulls-Vivid-Red
Well-known member
So to be clear your USB-A stick works in NON-Emira vehicles only? Is your USB-A stick formatted as FAT vs NTFS?
Did you switch to USB -1?
Man.v.Cars
Emira Fan
Fat32. I formatted a usb c stick the exact same and put the same music on and it works fine in the USB c port.
Man.v.Cars
Emira Fan
How do you do that, it only comes up Media>USB and doesn't recognise anything in the USB A port, but does when I plug USB C into the USB C port.
Man.v.Cars
Emira Fan
Duh, what an idiot! I didn't see that.
How embarrassing. I'll see later. My excuse is I picked the car up yesterday after the dealer got the screen working for the 1st time, a pinched/broken wire in the dash. Though the reversing camera isn't working either.
Thanks for that.
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