Hello,

Just like to confirm that according to the manual only 1000 maximum music files on the SD card can be displayed.

 

If so, is there any way of increasing this please?

 

My car is 2013 with software from that date.

Could that be 1000 files in the root dir and not 'nested' ones?

3 hours ago, john999boy said:

Could that be 1000 files in the root dir and not 'nested' ones?

Sorry, don't understand

I have a SD card with over 11,000 music files in my 2015 Amundsen and it plays all of them no problem.

 

I organise my files like this:

 

\[artist]\[album]\[track number][space][track name].mp3

 

That means there are no files in the root folder, only folders (one per artist) - maybe as john999boy says the limit is 1000 files in the root folder?

Thank you for the replies.

 

I have it formatted ex-fat with the default allocation size (128 G)

 

I have 5500 files in 94 folders and  1600 files  in alphabetical order.

 

Please explain what you mean by the root folder

 

Thanks

 

47 minutes ago, ords said:

Please explain what you mean by the root folder

See Root folder explanation

 

Think of it like a tree - everything starts at the root.

Edited 17 April, 20197 yr by PetrolDave

1 hour ago, PetrolDave said:

See Root folder explanation

 

Think of it like a tree - everything starts at the root.

Thanks, but I don't see how I can get it to display all my files.

On 16/04/2019 at 16:40, PetrolDave said:

I have a SD card with over 11,000 music files in my 2015 Amundsen and it plays all of them no problem.

 

I organise my files like this:

 

\[artist]\[album]\[track number][space][track name].mp3

 

That means there are no files in the root folder, only folders (one per artist) - maybe as john999boy says the limit is 1000 files in the root folder?

 

9 hours ago, ords said:

Thanks, but I don't see how I can get it to display all my files.

See my earlier post - that works for me to be able to access all 11,000 files on my 2015 MIB1 Amundsen.

 

So what you do is format the SD card, then create a folder for each artist, then for each artist open their folder and create a folder for each album of theirs, then for each album open their folder and copy the MP3 files for that album into it QED.

 

If you use the default Windows Media Player file layout much of the work will have been down for you since it uses the [artist]\[album]\[track number][space][track name].mp3 format by default which means you can just copy the whole [artist] folder straight into the empty root folder of the SD card.

23 hours ago, PetrolDave said:

 

See my earlier post - that works for me to be able to access all 11,000 files on my 2015 MIB1 Amundsen.

 

So what you do is format the SD card, then create a folder for each artist, then for each artist open their folder and create a folder for each album of theirs, then for each album open their folder and copy the MP3 files for that album into it QED.

 

If you use the default Windows Media Player file layout much of the work will have been down for you since it uses the [artist]\[album]\[track number][space][track name].mp3 format by default which means you can just copy the whole [artist] folder straight into the empty root folder of the SD card.

Thank you for the reply. I will try this.  I just don't know why the PC can see all the files on the SD card, but not in the car. Maybe it's because of old software?

Edited 19 April, 20197 yr by ords
Sentence added.

Just now, ords said:

 I just don't know why the PC can see all the files on the SD card, but not in the car.

Because your PC runs Windows but the infotainment system in the car runs a completely different operating system - so there's no way you can compare them.