Thumb drive problems
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Burning Brakes
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Thumb drive problems
Have my songs on a thumb drive. Worked great in M4, works great in '23 Tucson. In Vette, titles keep scrolling down. If I put it in random play, songs play fine but I have zero control over them. If in random, can press 'next' and will go to next title. Tried three different drives, same results. Anyone have any ideas? Stereo sounds great, btw. 14 speakers in that small of a car...wow. Thanks!
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are all the songs in one complete folder, or are they burned where there are absolutely no folders at all,? tthey all need to be in one folder in order to shuffle correctly
Melting Slicks
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Have my songs on a thumb drive. Worked great in M4, works great in '23 Tucson. In Vette, titles keep scrolling down. If I put it in random play, songs play fine but I have zero control over them. If in random, can press 'next' and will go to next title. Tried three different drives, same results. Anyone have any ideas? Stereo sounds great, btw. 14 speakers in that small of a car...wow. Thanks!
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Burning Brakes
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Burning Brakes
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Instead of using a USB drive with your MP3s/FLAC/etc, If you have an iPhone, transfer your MP3s/FLAC/etc. into iTunes then transfer them over to your iPhone and use Apple CarPlay in your C8 to play you're iPhone music library. You'll also get all of the additional metadata/artwork/etc.
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I've been very happy using a USB for my music collection. It's organized into band folders, then album folders under that, then the actual song files. Works great.
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It is very simple and much easier for older folks, I just set up a USB thumb drive for a friend. I prefer the low profile drives, 64GB being about the largest I reccomend. Load as many mp4 files as you can. Insert the drive in the USB slot in the console slot. Fire up the car. It will take about 30-40 minutes to index the first time. After that about 5 min each time car starts. You can then select USB from music screen and select how you want to play music from a number criteria. It sorts the files exactly like you put them on there. I typically use my phone with Poweramp, but as backup have a music USB as well.
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I have a top level folder called "Music" on my USB flash drive. Every "album" has its own subfolder titled <artist> - <album>. This is the way Windows Media Player rips the music from CDs and they play fine in my 2020 (I'm using 320 kbps MP3 format). I also use a playlist to segregate the music I like from the music my wife likes and it works fine with one exception. There seems to be a limit in random mode on how many songs it will play before it starts repeating. It might also do this if I'm not using a playlist but I haven't tried long enough.
Does anyone else have problems of songs repeating before all songs have been played in random mode when using a USB flash drive?
Does anyone else have problems of songs repeating before all songs have been played in random mode when using a USB flash drive?
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I have a top level folder called "Music" on my USB flash drive. Every "album" has its own subfolder titled <artist> - <album>. This is the way Windows Media Player rips the music from CDs and they play fine in my 2020 (I'm using 320 kbps MP3 format). I also use a playlist to segregate the music I like from the music my wife likes and it works fine with one exception. There seems to be a limit in random mode on how many songs it will play before it starts repeating. It might also do this if I'm not using a playlist but I haven't tried long enough.
Does anyone else have problems of songs repeating before all songs have been played in random mode when using a USB flash drive?
Does anyone else have problems of songs repeating before all songs have been played in random mode when using a USB flash drive?
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Burning Brakes
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I did that and found all songs are in a separate folder--in fact, some have an album folder and then show the individual songs. If I go to "Artists," I can select the songs in that folder and they play fine. The comment about time to "index" is interesting. Will try after 10 minutes or so of driving. When they play, sounds better than anything on XM. Very pleased with sound system.
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I found the easiest thing to do is leave all the folders where they are but take some time and create a new folder, called “all music” Thank you, then copy all your music in every folder into the new folder into the all music folder and then choose that and shuffle… That way everything is left the same and you’ve just added another folder. naturally, you might have to buy a bigger USB stick to make this happen
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Ask your kids, or the neighbor's kids, or your grandkids.
Failing those options, ask someone at the local Best Buy, or other computer shop.
Most of the suggestions on here so far should help, or confuse.
The "indexing" comments were probably the most likely issue.
Failing those options, ask someone at the local Best Buy, or other computer shop.
Most of the suggestions on here so far should help, or confuse.
The "indexing" comments were probably the most likely issue.
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Burning Brakes
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Son and son-in-law both very techie knowledgeable. Will give them a try.
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I’m just happy I transferred 1800 song from my vintage 2nd generation iPod (circa 2004) before it died. Unfortunately I’m not able to fix the same type of problems the OP listed because of the way the files transferred.
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That's my understanding too. I ripped my CD collection, ~200, to disk using MP3 format at the lowest loss level. And then have probably another 10-15 albums I've bought online and downloaded to my collection over the last year or so.
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I didn't see if anyone answered the question. Using a USB drive, there is no way to control the songs with the steering wheel (like you could in the C7). You can only skip or go back using the touch-screen. Such a simple feature that was forgotten in the C8.