chuckyarla

I listen to my music via a 64gb USB stick. I have 5 different folders on it - General Music A-Z, Compilations, Soundtracks, Irish Music, Classical. In my previous cars ( Audi A6/5-Series) the system showed the 5 folders. Then I could go into which ever folder I wanted and select the artist/album/track that I wished to listen to. In the Lexus it seems to have merged the 5 folders together. Is there a way I can sort this? Thanks.

teezee1000

I spent a whole Saturday trying to figure this out. I ended up sorting my folders by artist. It seems to work best with the voice search function.

chuckyarla

How did you do that?

teezee1000

I made folders by the artist... ex:
[Drake]
One Dance
Controlla
Hotline Bling
[Anderson Paak]
The Bird
Put me through
Come down
The audio system seems to work best when I set it up like that. If you are using a MAC you will need a 3rd party app to remove invisible files that will show up in car audio system.

chuckyarla

Thanks. The folders within each directory are under the artists' names. But the system doesn't recognise the directory.

teezee1000

the car doesn't see your files or doesn't see the folders?

chuckyarla

It doesn't recognize the 5 directories I have split my music into (Music A-Z/Classical/Irish/Compilations/Soundtracks). It has merged them all together.

DallasDave

iTrader: (1)

I did the same. In the root directory of the USB stick, I put all the individual artists' folders. Within each of those folders were folders with their albums (some artists just had one, others many).

When you pull up the music screen, select "browse" (it's in the bottom RH corner when the music screen is using the main display). Multiple tabs should appears near the top of the screen. Select the folder titled Artist and away you go.

teezee1000

Ok subfolders are not going to work with this setup (would be nice) so in your root directory you will need to make your individual artist folders.

Start with the browse button.



When u click there you should see the Tabs up on the top, you can choose the different tabs to sort to help search for specific music.


The artist, song, albums, genre and composer tabs pull from the MP3 metadata. It will be a good idea to get a good 3rd party program to edit them correctly.


As you can see mines is screwed up and I'm kinda OCD about this stuff so I will take the time to make sure my songs are proper.


Hope this makes a little more sense to you.

chuckyarla

Thank you all for your kind help. I'll have to play about with it and see can I make sense of it. Pity it doesn't recognize my directories though - all my other cars did.

grayson73

So folders only works with one directory in the root of the USB, correct? No sub-folders.

teezee1000

Yes it would seem so. I thought it might have something to do with the voice operated search function, but I believe that's more tied to MP3 meta data than the folder.