USB Flash drive music organization

wjones14 · 04-02-2017, 10:11 AM

Some questions about organizing music on a USB flash drive:

Is this the proper folder structure?

Artist
-- Album
---- Songs

Can album artwork be added so it displays while playing? If so, where does the album art go in the folder structure?

My particular car has the Tech Package, but no Enhanced USB/Bluetooth, if that matters.

harma24 · 04-04-2017, 07:38 PM

Based on what I've seen, the folder structure does not matter; iDrive reads the ID3 tags. I have a mix of random files and files organized in the same folder structure which you note. iDrive can find them all.

Album covers will appear on the display. Not 100% sure how. Some I have the jpg in the same folder, others I don't have a jpg at all but it still shows up.

SteveInfante · 04-09-2017, 11:59 AM

If you don't have Tech can you still use the USB to play music?

pikcachu · 04-09-2017, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveInfante

If you don't have Tech can you still use the USB to play music?

I think so

Beartato · 04-09-2017, 01:55 PM

I use Mp3tag to add album art to my files, along with fixing any metadata issues.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

Also I use to the same file structure, except when I only have one album from an artist I don't put an album folder, to save the click. I prefer to browse by folder vs the iDrive's sorting method, seems easier.

scottyn · 04-09-2017, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveInfante

If you don't have Tech can you still use the USB to play music?

most definitely, yes. I've got a 64gb flash drive connected to mine...works beautifully.

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