Navigation & Audio USB HARD DRIVES and USB KEYS
#126
nicknbecka - agreed... I get the same results with a 16gig flash drive.
Even if it does need to index again, it's often still playing whatever was playing before the car was turned off while it does.... and it completes the indexing within 2 minutes or so.
All my music is in the root folder of the drive... not sorted.
I can say for sure that it can continue the last played song up to at least a day after the car was turned off. .
Even if it does need to index again, it's often still playing whatever was playing before the car was turned off while it does.... and it completes the indexing within 2 minutes or so.
All my music is in the root folder of the drive... not sorted.
I can say for sure that it can continue the last played song up to at least a day after the car was turned off. .
I've got all my files in the root folder, (couple of hundred) but my MINI only plays about a dozen tracks.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
Regards,
Paul
#127
I have about 500 tracks in the root directory of my USB memory stick, but my MINI will only play about a dozen tracks (maybe it doesn't like the rest).
Any ideas why this would happen?
Regards,
Paul
#128
What does it do exactly? Begin playing and stops? Doesn't even begin playing?
To try to isolate the issue, I would copy a nonplaying track to another, empty memory stick and see what happens when you play it. Are all your tracks in the same format (e.g. mp3)?
To try to isolate the issue, I would copy a nonplaying track to another, empty memory stick and see what happens when you play it. Are all your tracks in the same format (e.g. mp3)?
#129
Hi RKW,
Thanks for the response,
It plays the dozen or so tracks, perfectly, then goes back to the start and plays the same ones again, ignoring all the others.
All tracks are MP3.
I tried it without a playlist and It played tracks from A to G. I thought a playlist might solve the problem, so added all tracks to a list and it decided to play tracks from S to Z.
I'll try your suggestion tomorrow, but my suspicion is that it doesn't like lots of tracks, I think it will play the single track.
Thanks again for your advice.
Regards,
Paul
Thanks for the response,
All tracks are MP3.
I tried it without a playlist and It played tracks from A to G. I thought a playlist might solve the problem, so added all tracks to a list and it decided to play tracks from S to Z.
Thanks again for your advice.
Regards,
Paul
#130
#131
It seems like it has a problem with finding files, not with ability to play them. There might something about the folder structure on your memory stick that it can't deal with. Try reformatting the memory stick (FAT32 format) to put it in a clean state and copy the mp3 files back to it again (save everything first to your computer if necessary). Or else rearrange your tracks a folder as AZdsrt suggests.
#132
I had that problem, was related to the number of files in the root directory. FAT32 has some kind of limit. I created a folder called 'Music' and put all my files in it. Problem solved. One thing I learned is that it will just about any kind of audio file (ie mp3, wav, etc)
I'm wondering if I might be due to the capacity of the stick, I'm using a 16GB stick.
Regards,
Paul
#133
It seems like it has a problem with finding files, not with ability to play them. There might something about the folder structure on your memory stick that it can't deal with. Try reformatting the memory stick (FAT32 format) to put it in a clean state and copy the mp3 files back to it again (save everything first to your computer if necessary). Or else rearrange your tracks a folder as AZdsrt suggests.
I'll also try another stick, and see if that makes a difference.
Regards,
Paul
#134
Did you load the USB Drive with a Mac? Even though it may be formatted FAT32, the Mac puts some invisible files on the stick that may be your problem. (These invisible files were why my '13 MCS wouldn't play any of my songs...)
If YES to the Mac part, you can toggle the invisibility bit and trash all the invisble files you find on the stick. OR....you can do a Goggle search for an app called "Clean Eject". It is a donationware app written by some Swedish (I Think) guy that does the clean up for you. If you do use "Clean Eject", be a decent fellow and sent the author a few bucks.
If YES to the Mac part, you can toggle the invisibility bit and trash all the invisble files you find on the stick. OR....you can do a Goggle search for an app called "Clean Eject". It is a donationware app written by some Swedish (I Think) guy that does the clean up for you. If you do use "Clean Eject", be a decent fellow and sent the author a few bucks.
#135
Regards,
Paul
#136
#137
My intuition is that this is a firmware bug in the stereo, and you're just trying to find a workaround. I would try adding files incrementally (say 20 at a time), retest each time and you might narrow it down to particular files that trigger the problem.
#138
I did notice yesterday that the MINI display had a tick next to "List" as if it trying to play a list (there are no play-lists on the stick).
When you select "List" is says "empty list", so I wondered what that meant.
After a bit of playing around I managed to select one of my directories to play and the tick next to list has gone.
It's played quite a few songs since, so I'll keep my eye on it and report back.
It's all a bit tricky when you are working without any instructions.
Regards,
Paul
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