Infotainment media playback from USB problem.

[Wiz33]

I know the system does not remember you last audio source but this just happened today. I started the car, selected Media, select USB-2 (A port), then I select Album. Normally this would put up the cover arts and you can select the album and then select the song. Today, when I select the Album ,ti came up blank but if I select the folder, I can see the album list and select it but the sones are listed in alphabetical order instead of album song number. Anyone seen this?

 

[Wiz33]

I know the system does not remember you last audio source but this just happened today. I started the car, selected Media, select USB-2 (A port), then I select Album. Normally this would put up the cover arts and you can select the album and then select the song. Today, when I select the Album ,ti came up blank but if I select the folder, I can see the album list and select it but the sones are listed in alphabetical order instead of album song number. Anyone seen this?

Update:

Went out for my first night drive later that evening and things are working again. the problems seems to be that it takes forever to load the the album cover arts for 20GB of music. The other problem remains as it will only play songs in alphabetical order from an album and not the actual song number.

 

[Liquid Hot Magma]

Update:

Went out for my first night drive later that evening and things are working again. the problems seems to be that it takes forever to load the the album cover arts for 20GB of music. The other problem remains as it will only play songs in alphabetical order from an album and not the actual song number.

Did you add numbers to the front of each file name for all your songs? If not, you may have to go to your computer and rename all your files.

 

[JimH]

Did you add numbers to the front of each file name for all your songs? If not, you may have to go to your computer and rename all your files.

Or use something like mp3tag or even iTunes (if you must!) to add track numbers in the metadata - this may work if that's where the audio unit is looking…. This also allows album art embedding into individual song files which may speed things up…

My "local" music on iPhone is curated using this approach and seems to work fine....

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

 

[BarryH]

I had raised similar concerns with the local dealer. The rendering of folders and the files within them is problematic.
Folders appear to be in read order rather than alphabetic, while file order within the folder is alphabetic (I have added the number as a prefix to the filename). I haven't worked out what the "songs" order is as it is not alphabetic and not in Album/Folder order (random?) - I have 250GB of music so loading Albums is an extremely slow exercise.
Not remembering your place can make listening to audio books on longer drives a challenge

 

[Wiz33]

Or use something like mp3tag or even iTunes (if you must!) to add track numbers in the metadata - this may work if that's where the audio unit is looking…. This also allows album art embedding into individual song files which may speed things up…

My "local" music on iPhone is curated using this approach and seems to work fine....

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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

They works fine on my S5, RS5 and 718. But I have found one album that it's going with track number. I'll take a closer look at the file property and see. The one album tha tworks actually have nothing in the track column but have track number as the front of the title.

My other albums that have proper track and disc number does not work.

 

[Wiz33]

Did you add numbers to the front of each file name for all your songs? If not, you may have to go to your computer and rename all your files.

I found one album that is working with track number, will look at the file property but they all work on my other cars

 

[Wiz33]

Did you add numbers to the front of each file name for all your songs? If not, you may have to go to your computer and rename all your files.

All my other cars will read the track number in the file property. I did find one album that have the track number at the start of the title and that one works but that's an oddball, the rest of the industry reads the actual track number column.

 

[usa4manu]

By the way, I haven't found the shuffle possibility when listening to all songs on the USB. Is it missing or I need to buy some glasses? Thanks!

 

[Wiz33]

No shuffle button and the fact that the system doesn't even remember the last album played much less the last song and continue from there is a pain.

By the way, I haven't found the shuffle possibility when listening to all songs on the USB. Is it missing or I need to buy some glasses? Thanks!

 

[Davebeats]

There is a shuffle option, you have to expand the view of the media player