iTunes (and several other software programs) organizes files into folders with the name of the album.

When on USB, my Corvette (2014) will play the first folder and any song(s) in that folder but not move forward.

If I move all files to the root of a FAT32 USB drive, it plays the first song and cannot be advanced further.

Similar experiences or alternate approaches?

Thank you in advance.

 

My music files are also arranged in folders per album. When I select an album and a track in the album each track plays in order and then the cycle repeats until I select another album and track. I do not have random or shuffle selected. Both my 2014 vette (SD card) and 2014 Acadia (USB) work this way.

What are you trying to do?

 

I have all of my songs by artist then album. I used Media Player to create playlists. I select the playlist I want (normally the one with all of the songs in it) and select shuffle on the radio and let it go.

 

What file format did you elect?

(Side bar) My wife's 2016 RAV/4 Limited will not play USB based *.wav files.

(Son of sidebar) What became of my (2014 Stingray) HD Radio channels? We have many here, and I had them programmed in until we had a firmware update to the infotainment system. Problem resolved: the firmware flash had defaulted to no HD channels. Reset it and all is well)

 

I am beyone frustrated with the usb connectors. Although they appear to work if I connect an iPhone to get Apple Play (which seems worthless to me as the phone is no longer accessible) but when I connect my iPod it mostly doesn't work. It did work once, but only once. Since then nothing I have done has made that connector work.

I will try and build a USB thumb drive today with the music on my iPod. Based on the comments above I should organize it by album? Hard to do because I have a lot of single songs collected. Somehow I have little confidence in Detroit to design an electronic device that will work. (Based not only on my new Corvette but my Wife's new Ford Hybrid).

Took a while to find out what Format the Thumb Drive needs. Chevrolet.com simply gives the instruction to "Format" the drive. Kinda dumb given the size of Thumb Drives these days. Apparently it supports up to 32 GB and need FAT32 formatted drive.

 

Format the device in FAT16.........it works for me.

 

Admittedly, I do not listen to the radio or music that much in the Corvette. In the Viper(s), I could not. They were simply too loud. In the Ford GTs, I enjoyed listening to the supercharger and exhaust.

I most miss music when I am stuck in traffic, not moving (99% of all driving here). So my interest in the USB, SD card, my iPod, my iPhone...they are rather academic and for purposes of tinkering.

It would seem to be easy to create an interface where you insert a USB 3.x drive, have your music in *.wav files so there is less loss and, ideally, have the song/album reliably show on the screen.

From American cars, I do not anticipate that being easy. I would assume that my neighbors' 911 or Huracan or SCUDERIA work with ease, but then, again, I suspect that they too would rather listen to their motor then music.

Short story: I took my first Ford GT in for servicing (at 200 miles, the transaxle had failed, 200 miles later the linkage came loose...). In the service line, I was situated between two huge Ford brand City utility vehicles. The mechanic working on my GT, dropped a wrench on the frame and tried to cover it up with nail polish. Maybe that happens with a Scuderia, but I would think not.

 

You get a better result in FAT16 than in FAT32? That would be interesting.

 

OK, I am with the OP. I downloaded my xml files from iTunes to a 16GB thumb drive formatted to FAT32. It plays in the cubby usb port. But it only shows one of the 7 albums that comprise those 661 songs that were downloaded (a bit over 9 GB of music) along with a couple of songs from one of the other albums. So 5.5 albums are missing.

I had a Double D sourced Kenwood 890HD system in my traded in 08 Z and it was wonderful. Everything worked and worked seamlessly. BT, iPod, XM, Pandora, Nav, Radio, etc. This system in the Corvette (MyLink) is a mess. Thy MySync in my Wife's (notice the capital letters for the boss) Hybrid is actually pretty good with everything seemingly working well there. For some reason MyLink seems to be a bigger problem. I keep reading of problems with iPods like I had and now we move to the Chevy recommendation which is a Thumb Drive and that apparently can't access all the files.

Can we drill down technically. If multiple albums of xml files won't work what will? I don't mind getting mp3 or wav files even if I have to rebuy them. The other idea is to take some of my CDs and rip off the songs there into a thumb drive but need to know how GM has programmed their system to know what file hierarchy and type of file it is compatible with.

PS: I am going to the General Section and ask the Question to see if we have some experts on MyLink not with Z06s.

 

Mt car always defaults to the first album on my media device. Every time I change the media, I need to search the media and select a file to play. As soon as you pick something outside the first album, it should play everything.

When you do a search, don't pick an artist or you may get nothing but that artist.

On a side-note, I've also found that the file table gets wonky if I add and remove files. I'm in the habit of doing a quick format on the media before I add my new media selection.

I hope this is helpful.

 

How do you search the media? With the take forever voice command? Or with the head unit. I forget what it is called. Maybe "Tune". That is what will only show me songs in the first album. I will try it for a while now that at least I have some way of getting to the music on the Thumb Drive and see if I can't play something else. Really seems wonky but that is what we will have to live with. I love the new car but really miss my Kenwood unit. It is so very much better than what MyLink does.

Thank you for your help.

 

 

For the songs? mp3 For the playlist? m3u

From another thread that this question was asked.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...post1592043733

 

Made a new USB. Also use an iPod (rather than my iPhone). Both play the same song three times even when you manually advance.

Encourages one to listen to AM radio or the static between stations.

Certainly a system that is imperfect.

 

shrink said it best: imperfect

It's a very cheap system that GM puts in the Vette. For comparison, the unit in the LTZ Z71 trucks is far better.

I format FAT16 then move all of the files to the root (no folders). It will continue to play for hours...........or until the battery goes dead.

 

I shall make a FAT16 drive and try. Unquestionably the FAT32 is not working well. All files in the root is problematic since 137 songs have the same title (they may be the same song from 5 concerts etc).

I am not disappointed in any aspect of the car. It is an inexpensive fun ride and meets many of my needs. It is the only recently purchased (since 2006) American car. I plan on getting a Z06 unless I opt for a Porsche. But the infotainment unit will not be part of the decision.

 

hGiven the proliferation of MP3 players and Apple products that do all this automatically and don't require the operator to be an IT professional, it would have been a lot easier for GM audio engineers (if there is such a thing) to simply allow the MP3/iPod players to plug and play. If I go to Apple Car Play on my 16 my music will play just fine from my phone using the Apple Music app, but that requires me to have my iPhone on Apple Car Play, tethered to the car and in the cubby rather than available for use as a phone.

An elegant solution but somewhat costly would be to call Dennis at Double D and get another Kenwood and ancillary equipment to integrate into the Z but having to spend another $2k on a brand new $110,000 car seems really sad.

 

It truly is an inconvenient system.

I did not see a purpose for XM (for us). There is decidedly little on FM HD channels (of which we have many) so we must brew our own music or listen to talk radio.

"Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy."

 

I have a 2014, so it might be a bit different if you have a newer car.

You can navigate the media using the center display or the steering wheel controls. Faster is to select the audio section in the center panel. Then tap on the USB (or SD if that's what you use) icon on the left side and it'll open a list of all media on the drive. You'll have options for sorting, like by artist, playlist, song, etc. Pick by song and pick any song.

If you want to use the voice controls, you should be able to hit the voice button and say "Play songname". As long as you know the name of one song that voice will pick up easily, this should have the same results. I just used this yesterday and said "Play Heathens" and it picked it right up. It did massacre the pronunciation, so that was good for a laugh.

You should then be able to hit advance or back and get a different song. If you shuffle, like I do, it should bounce around the media. YMMV



I've found the entire system to be very easy to navigate. Perhaps the designer thinks a bit like I do. I absolutely love how the tree format works for the steering wheel controls.

 

Thanks for the insite. I will try using the steering wheel controls. I can't work with talking to that robot. It thinks and responds way to slowly for me and generally I drive with the top down so it doesn't work.

A menu tree format would be great but I haven't figured out how to build that on my thumb drive yet. I have moved from iTunes loading it to actually moving MP3 files into a subdirectory called Music that is organized by Album. I will see if that works better.