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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 09:47 AM
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No Playlist, Artist, Album, Genre for USB

I have been searching all morning for an answer to this. I have only had my MINI a couple of weeks, so I am just getting around to playing with the features. 2009 Clubman with Nav and USB/Bluetooth. I loaded up my music on a USB and it has been playing great. Today I decided to create a playlist (M3U) and put it on the stick. The MINI will only recognize the directory option, I cannot get to playlist, album, artist, etc, they are all greyed out. Any ideas?

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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 10:59 AM
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I haven't tried music off a USB stick, but it could be that those options only work with an iPod.
 
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 11:08 AM
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Hadn't thought of that.
 
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 11:55 AM
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No those options work with a standard USB stick as well but the music MUST me properly coded with mp3 tags. if the music does not have the mp3 tags filled out properly then the system will not recognize them and thus can not use them to sort by artist, genre, album etc.
 
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 12:18 PM
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Thanks...I will have to look into how they are coded. In windows explorer it shows everything, but things must not be just right. That doesn't explain it not seeing the playlist on the stick.
 
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 01:19 PM
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I think I figured this out. I had all my music in 5 kind of generic specific folders. So I tried a different stick with them outside those folders and all the options work. It seems that it didn't like that extra part of the file structure.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2011 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by minisap11
I think I figured this out. I had all my music in 5 kind of generic specific folders. So I tried a different stick with them outside those folders and all the options work. It seems that it didn't like that extra part of the file structure.
I use th following and have not problem with it.

A>Artist>Album>track title.mp3
 
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Old Jun 16, 2011 | 09:04 PM
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usb memory stick and classical music

Originally Posted by schatzy62
I use th following and have not problem with it.

A>Artist>Album>track title.mp3
I have lots of classical music. At the moment, my file structure looks like:

Brahms>Symphony3>Movement1.mp3
Movement2.mp3
Movement3.mp3
Movement4.mp3
Brahms>Symphony4>Movement1.mp3
etc.

This works well except that the player cycles around within the last directory, going from Movement4 back to Movement1.

I would rather have it move up in the directory structure to Symphony4 after finishing Symphony3. Or at least stop so that I can choose something else.

If this were a Unix file system I could make a symbolic link that appeared after the last entry in the Symphony3 directory that pointed to the first entry in the Symphony4 directory. But I don't think that FAT32 will do that.

Playing on the standard CD Audio system with Convenience Package, 2011 Clubman.
 
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