SD card - tracklistings

[leehal]

Has anyone managed to find a fix to this problem?

When I access the music on my SD card the tracks play in alphabetical order.

[digigriffin]

So that would be down to how you name them then?

I just put folders and mp3 from itunes straight on the SD card and they are listed in the correct order.

I think I tunes prefixes the track names with "01-", "02-", "03-" so that may be why they list correctly.

[Hippogriff]

Not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, but MP3s have tags called ID3 that carry metadata about the Track. Things like Artist, Album, Year, Genre and Track Number. I would hope that the MMI reads these tags on the MP3 files.

In ID3 version 1, and 1.1, this was very simple - as there is 128 bytes at the end of an MP3 file and each field has a fixed length. If you want to put the Track Number information in your MP3 file it goes into the last two bytes of the Comment field, which is 30 bytes long; last byte actually - there is a null separator.

In ID3 version 2, all this became more complicated... however, you'd more than likely always use a tool to manipulate these tags anyway. Then you can set the Track Number from any asset in your MP3 file... maybe you have named the Tracks like "<##>, <name>.mp3" or "<name> (<##>).mp3", it shouldn't really matter as you can tag it properly using a tool. There's lots around - Google something like "mp3 tagger" or "id3 tagging" I'd guess.

Then, no matter what format you have your MP3 file names in, you know that the Track Number field is filled in via the ID3 tag - then you'd hope the MMI reads those and sorts the tracks in number order rather than alphabetical.

I'll get my car this coming Wednesday, so I have all this to look forward to.

[nickhx]

Hi,

I find the easiest way is to import the tracks into iTunes and then right click the tracks, select get info and then change the track numbers by hand. I then copy the tracks back to my SD card and my Audi B8 concert stereo then picks up the correct order fine.

Cheers

[leehal]

Seems to be working OK now that I am copying files from my iTunes folder, only tried 1 album so far though!

[leehal]

Can anyone help me out with regards to best type of card formatting and also does the player read wma & mp3's?

I have a strange problem.

Tried a brand new Transcend card tonight, added tracks for an album from my iTunes folder (MP3's) and inserted the card. The tracklistings appeared, skipped through them saying they were damaged and then proceeded to another set of the same track listings and played them. Once a track had played they remained in the correct sequence but the number that was next to the name disappeared. To play the songs again I have to scroll through the 'damaged' tracks which still appear in the folder but are grey rather than orange.

[nickhx]

I use the Panasonic SD Card formatting software which works very nicely and is available from here:

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html

[leehal]

Thanks for that, but I use a Macbook.

[martin@wolfy]

Thanks for that, but I use a Macbook.

The macbook is the problem!!!! i have an imac and it does the same. You have to run a clean up program over the folder once you have ripped the tracks and before you transfer them to the card as it transfers a load of hidden files.
Cannot think of the program name at the mo as i am on my macbook, will let you know however if you want just search with google and you will find the solution.

wolfy!!!!

[bradshep]

The macbook is the problem!!!! i have an imac and it does the same. You have to run a clean up program over the folder once you have ripped the tracks and before you transfer them to the card as it transfers a load of hidden files.
Cannot think of the program name at the mo as i am on my macbook, will let you know however if you want just search with google and you will find the solution.

wolfy!!!!

Hi I'm having the same problem with my MacBook. Can you please tell me how to solve this and witch software to use. Thanks

[Jop]

I'm really surprised at this thread.
I use an imac, I couldn't believe it was so hard to load an SD card with music.
So, I had to test.

I grabbed a 2Gb SD card from Mrs Jop's samsung camera. put it in the card reader that cost me 2.99 from a petrol station, didnt bother formatting it and dragged over one folder of about 10 songs from the finder (not the itunes application)

Put it in one of the sd slot in the car and hey presto ....(to quote an apple tag line) "it just works"

there were the image files still on the card and, of course, they didn't play.
But the music played just fine.

Remember... keep it simple stupid.

[martin@wolfy]

Hi I'm having the same problem with my MacBook. Can you please tell me how to solve this and witch software to use. Thanks

I use a program called blue harvest, simply tick all the items you want it to clean in the settings and then right click on the SD folder and choose clean up with Blue Harvest when you have transferred you tracks.


wolfy!!!!

[leehal]

I'm really surprised at this thread.
I use an imac, I couldn't believe it was so hard to load an SD card with music.
So, I had to test.

I grabbed a 2Gb SD card from Mrs Jop's samsung camera. put it in the card reader that cost me 2.99 from a petrol station, didnt bother formatting it and dragged over one folder of about 10 songs from the finder (not the itunes application)

Put it in one of the sd slot in the car and hey presto ....(to quote an apple tag line) "it just works"

there were the image files still on the card and, of course, they didn't play.
But the music played just fine.

Remember... keep it simple stupid.

Not wanting to rain on your parade, but, try installing multiple folders, different file formats etc. I consider myself to be very competant with both PCs and Macs and this is far from easy. Sometimes it works, somtimes it doesn't.

[bradshep]

To all Mac users.

After many hours of serching on the internet I have found a way to remove those pesky ._ files :biglaugh: that show up on the sd card when playing music tracks. Apple added a tool for removing the files by using the terminal when they relised leopard.

To remove them, open up terminal and type dot_clean -m leave a space after the m then drag and drop the folder or sd card to the terminal window, this enters the correct path into the script for you, press enter and your done.

This method worked for me Hope it helps, let me know how you get on.

Brad

[dandy27]

Only two weeks til my beast arrives, and im getting really imaptient now, every flippin night im dreaming about what button im pressing next.

So thought as I was bored on Saturday, I would go for another spin by Peterborough Audi. I had my fully loaded SD card i my pocket and decided to pop in, sit in one of the Sline A4`s in the showroom and pop the card in.

To my amazement, all 46 albums showed and tracklistsings perfect. I coulndt help but to crank up the volume, especially when the track I selected was the Phonics.

So it appears everything is ready. I have a macbook and simply dragged the files from the itunes library onto the card. I did see those annoying hidden files people are mentioning, but didnt bother me too much.

Spent the rest of the weekend importing all my CD`s into itunes and ensuring all the tags were up to date.

BTW, if your importing a cd to itunes, make sure you select the option to import as MP3. I got caught out by that as by default itunes brings them in as ACC, which your Auid aint gonna recognize.

[troc]

The Audi MMI system works with AAC files quite happily - what it doesn't play are any DRM'd or "protected" files - which is whar iTunes used to sell, although now you can choose to get the high(er)-quality ones without DRM instead (or maybe that's all they sell now?). Anything ending in .m4a should be fine (I've a number of albums I bought from iTunes and they all play in the car from an SD card, or the jukebox)

It won't play the .m4b format that iTunes uses to define an audiobook though but as these are exactly the same as .m4a files, you can just rename them :)

John

[leehal]

My issues seem to be sorted too, seems my iTunes library contained MP3s and M4a's and the two don't mix.

Any albums I want to add in M4a format I change to MP3 using iTunes.

[troc]

My issues seem to be sorted too, seems my iTunes library contained MP3s and M4a's and the two don't mix.

Any albums I want to add in M4a format I change to MP3 using iTunes.

I'm still puzzled by this - I just checked and I can play .m4a files from an SD card without a problem. I tried ones I've ripped myself and also some of the ones I bought from iTunes. Might be different MMI versions? Most of my library is .m4a these days in fact as I re-ripped everything last year (that was fun..........:()

(I'm simply dragging and dropping music from my iTunes folder to the SD cards on my mac btw)

If I had a wishlist (other than the 4000 file limit that seems to exist), it's be for the 3G MMI to rip cds onto the jukebox for me :)

[ScottyUK]

If it could rip (and I've seen it discussed on a German forum that it may be possible!) would you want to accept the standard rip or would you rather do it on a computer where you can set the format etc?

In car would be easy but then you'd have to take the CD out there so there's no advantage. It's easier to do it in doors and get better quality.

[troc]

True Scotty - I'd not want it for the usual stuff but occasionally I've been round at a mate's or whatever and wanted a copy of something - usually can't be bothered with booting computers, ripping and then finding some way to get the tracks to the car - so in this case, chucking the disc in the car would be a nice solution.

John