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Old 01-08-2012, 11:54 PM   #1
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USB tip needed for music streaming

I have a small 16 gig USB that I leave plugged in all the time. I loaded the music by using windows media player. I don't like the way it functions. Does anyone have tips or suggestions on loading music onto the USB so that it's easy to find artists or songs?

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Old 01-08-2012, 11:56 PM   #2
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I have a small 16 gig USB that I leave plugged in all the time. I loaded the music by using windows media player. I don't like the way it functions. Does anyone have tips or suggestions on loading music onto the USB so that it's easy to find artists or songs?

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U can just use ur iphone if u have the connectivity package. It should work with the wheel controls 2

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Old 01-09-2012, 08:54 AM   #3
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I was using my iPhone for a while, but I hate that the cord doesn't come out of the armrest easily. It puts pressure on the armrest if you lean on it too much, and I don't want to break any hinges. That's why I got the USB.
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Old 01-09-2012, 09:01 AM   #4
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I was using my iPhone for a while, but I hate that the cord doesn't come out of the armrest easily. It puts pressure on the armrest if you lean on it too much, and I don't want to break any hinges. That's why I got the USB.
I haven't tried with an iphone but with a droid u canplay the phones audio through bluetooth and still use the steering wheel controls. You pair them buy pressing the menu/select button on ur radio while the aux cable icon is displayed.

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Old 01-09-2012, 09:07 AM   #5
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I had this problem when I put my whole library on my drive. It seemed like I could never hear the song I wanted. My solution was to pare it back to 100 or so songs, then rotate songs out as I get new ones or get tired of the old ones. 100ish gives me room for decent variety and gives me 5-6 hours of listen time, but still allows me to quickly find what I'm looking for track by track.

You can always search via the radio, but who wants to do that while doing 70?
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Old 01-09-2012, 09:30 AM   #6
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I use a small flash drive as well. When I put music on it, I just open the drive in "my computer", then just drag what I want into it. No program needed. Depending on how my music is labeled and organized on my computer is how it gets put onto the drive. I try to keep things labeled correctly on my computer specifically for that reason. Like if you've ripped a CD onto your computer and all the tracks names are "Track 01, 02, 03, etc", it'll be a headache to find what you want in your car. If you need to edit some file names, right-click the file and either rename it or check its properties to see if there's some conflict. So while my USB is playing, with everything named correctly, I can search artists, songs, albums, genre, etc. If there's a bunch of new music that I've added that I only want to hear, I make a new folder in the flash drive called "New". Then, in the car, I can just go to Menu>Search>Folders>New and only play those songs.

I do however wish the system would stay where I left it when I turn it off and back on again. Like if I had it on random, it stays on random. Or if I were playing a particular folder, it stays on that folder. It just goes back to playing everything in alphabetical order when I get back on the car.
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:01 AM   #7
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Thanks for the feedback. I thought I was going to have to go the route of just loading it directly. My music is organized, so no worries there. Just pull the folders in by artist/album/song...then hopefully it works fine.
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:20 AM   #8
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Related but kind of different question... I have and use my droid to stream loaded music and also pandora... I have noticed that when I am using bluetooth the sound quality is not as wide...meaning the lows and the very high hodges just aren't there...up have to use a thumb drive in order to get better sound quality. Is this just me or an inherent limitation when tasting bluetooth?

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Old 01-09-2012, 11:25 AM   #9
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My music is organized, so no worries there. Just pull the folders in by artist/album/song...then hopefully it works fine.
I am using a 32GB drive (I run higher bit rates ) without any problems. The best structure I have found is to have every album as its own folder and the songs within each folder. Make sure you have no other file types (album art, M3U etc) in there or you will get an error stating unknown file type and the party is usually over. As I am sure you are aware, there is a 2500 song limit as to what can be indexed successfully...

I can search by artist, album and song name etc in this configuration...
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Old 01-09-2012, 09:29 PM   #10
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OP, this may be obvious, but did you try the search by song or artist functionality on the radio itself? I can find all mine by artist, by album or by song and it works fine.

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Old 01-11-2012, 11:01 PM   #12
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Yeah. I did. It didn't function the way I wanted so I'm going to load it manually using Explorer and not Media Player.


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Old 02-19-2012, 12:57 PM   #13
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I do however wish the system would stay where I left it when I turn it off and back on again. Like if I had it on random, it stays on random. Or if I were playing a particular folder, it stays on that folder. It just goes back to playing everything in alphabetical order when I get back on the car.
I have this same wish. It chaps my behind to have to reselect a folder every time I turn the car off and on. If I'm playing a particular artist, I want it to STAY on that artist until I change it.

Same goes for BT streaming. I have to reconnect my android phone every time I get in the car... then start whatever stream I want it to play.

Frustrating....
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I do however wish the system would stay where I left it when I turn it off and back on again. Like if I had it on random, it stays on random. Or if I were playing a particular folder, it stays on that folder. It just goes back to playing everything in alphabetical order when I get back on the car.
That's odd. Mine picks up right where it was when I get back in my car.

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