I've ripped all my CDs and have put MP3s at 320kbps on an SD card for use in the car. Each album is in a separate folder. All's been fine for the last couple of years and I've added a few CDs every now and then. Recently albums have been appearing twice in the menu and they'll play track 1 of the first one then track 2 of the second, then track 2 of the first and track 2 of the second and so on. They only show up once on the computer. I've even tried formatting the card and recopying the mp3s onto it with no change. I've got about 400 CDs on the card and it's nowhere near full.

 

Anyone else experienced this or have any solutions?

Edited 26 November, 20205 yr by themacster

Haven’t seen this particular issue but I did have problems with the album art when I just copied my iTunes library to the sd card and tried to use it.

I ended up loading the entire sd card in mp3tag and going through all of the files correcting the art to be a maximum of 600x600 (and even then some art still had to be recreated before it would show) and updated all of the tags.

all works fine now in that respect.

I was surprised at just how many errors there were with tags considering I’d never noticed a problem with the iPod and am pretty fussy with making sure the tags are correct in iTunes!

I had issues with my albums after I'd been "adding to the card" for a while.

So I'd ripped most of my albums and copied them to the card, then added a couple more now and again, then a couple more - eventually it's as if the index gets itself in a mess.

I found that every six months I'd take the card out, format it and copy all my music back across as "one dump".

Everything is fine once more, can add albums, still fine - but if it all gets messy again after I keep on adding - I'll do the same again.

On 28/11/2020 at 17:40, SkudMissile21 said:

Haven’t seen this particular issue but I did have problems with the album art when I just copied my iTunes library to the sd card and tried to use it.

I ended up loading the entire sd card in mp3tag and going through all of the files correcting the art to be a maximum of 600x600 (and even then some art still had to be recreated before it would show) and updated all of the tags.

all works fine now in that respect.

I was surprised at just how many errors there were with tags considering I’d never noticed a problem with the iPod and am pretty fussy with making sure the tags are correct in iTunes!

I had to resize all my album art images too to make them smaller. I had issues when I had the Amundsen unit in my previous Octavia where they had to be no more than 200x200, but the Columbus in my current Superb doesn't seem to have this limitation. Fortunately I've got dbpoweramp and it comes with an image resizer that does batch conversion so it wasn't too painful.

On 03/12/2020 at 16:57, Stoofa said:

I had issues with my albums after I'd been "adding to the card" for a while.

So I'd ripped most of my albums and copied them to the card, then added a couple more now and again, then a couple more - eventually it's as if the index gets itself in a mess.

I found that every six months I'd take the card out, format it and copy all my music back across as "one dump".

Everything is fine once more, can add albums, still fine - but if it all gets messy again after I keep on adding - I'll do the same again.

Thanks, it did start happening when I added albums. I'm sure I tried reformatting and copying everything again, perhaps I've just got too many albums on there for the Columbus to cope with, but I'll give it another go. They're only on the card once as I can prove when I view the card on the computer.