USB Music Help

Head83 · 12-05-2023, 02:48 PM

I was hoping someone smarter than me can help me out. Ive read several threads talking about the topic but couldnt find anything that matched my issue. I have a 2023 G20 LCI. I purchased a SanDisk 256GB Ultra Fit thumbdrive to put my music collection on since iPod didnt work. I used CopyTrans to pull all my music off my iPod and it sorted everything in folders artist/album/songs. Everything looked great so I copied it onto the thumbdrive with a root folder of music so it looked like drive:/music/artist/album/song. I plugged it into the my USB port by the cup holders and it only recognizes one song. I can manually go in and see that it sees the root music folder but only one folder below that with one lonely song. I thought that was odd and read some posts about formatting the drive so reformated it to NTFS, copied everything over again and got the same result after plugging drive back into car. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?

Assassin · 12-06-2023, 05:43 AM

I have a simple set up on a 128gb usb stick. Only 2 folders, MUSIC and PLAYLISTS (m3u format). Works a treat and easily maintained.

perryinva · 12-09-2023, 09:52 AM

My drives only have the artists in the root, with all the meta data within. It takes album and song info from the meta data.

Head83 · 12-11-2023, 10:08 PM

I ended up just filtering everything out using *.mp3 and copying it over to the drive. That seems to have worked and the car is sorting everything usin metadata.

12-05-2023, 02:48 PM	#1
Head83 New Member 2 Rep 8 Posts Drives: 2023 330i X-Drive Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Colorado iTrader: (0)	USB Music Help I was hoping someone smarter than me can help me out. Ive read several threads talking about the topic but couldnt find anything that matched my issue. I have a 2023 G20 LCI. I purchased a SanDisk 256GB Ultra Fit thumbdrive to put my music collection on since iPod didnt work. I used CopyTrans to pull all my music off my iPod and it sorted everything in folders artist/album/songs. Everything looked great so I copied it onto the thumbdrive with a root folder of music so it looked like drive:/music/artist/album/song. I plugged it into the my USB port by the cup holders and it only recognizes one song. I can manually go in and see that it sees the root music folder but only one folder below that with one lonely song. I thought that was odd and read some posts about formatting the drive so reformated it to NTFS, copied everything over again and got the same result after plugging drive back into car. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
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12-06-2023, 05:43 AM	#2
Assassin First Lieutenant 142 Rep 341 Posts Drives: M340d MHT xDrive Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: Scotland iTrader: (0)	I have a simple set up on a 128gb usb stick. Only 2 folders, MUSIC and PLAYLISTS (m3u format). Works a treat and easily maintained. __________________ G20 M340d X-Drive M Performance, Black Sapphire, HUD, Adaptive Susp...... previously F31 335d Xdrive Shadow Edition M Performance, Individual Tanzanite Blue, HUD, Adaptive Susp, Evolve-R Map, Xhp Stage 3 E60 535d Msport Carbon Black/E39 530d MSport, Black Sapphire/E34 525i MSport, Avus Blue/E34 520i MSport, Briliant Red
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12-09-2023, 09:52 AM	#3
perryinva Private First Class 123 Rep 161 Posts Drives: 2022 Z4S30i 2019 X3x30i Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Richmond, VA iTrader: (0)	My drives only have the artists in the root, with all the meta data within. It takes album and song info from the meta data.
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12-11-2023, 10:08 PM	#4
Head83 New Member 2 Rep 8 Posts Drives: 2023 330i X-Drive Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Colorado iTrader: (0)	I ended up just filtering everything out using *.mp3 and copying it over to the drive. That seems to have worked and the car is sorting everything usin metadata.
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