Spent a couple of hours going through posts the other day and found a recommendation to set up your folders as A, B, C, etc. and put the albums in them. This allows alphabetical scrolling, which is much faster on the premium system.
I have an 8GB sandisk that I have about 1800 songs on. I oridinally loaded it in the car with the normal 'my music' file structure arranged by artist, with the albums under each artist folder.
When I turn on the USB, it comes up under directory and shows artist, album, genre, etc. I have to scroll one artist at a time, which sux and takes forever.
I took the tip the other day and reorganized the folders under the alphabetical system. Took it out to the car and plugged it in and VOILA, it worked. Until the next time that I shut down the system and then restarted. Then, it defaulted back to the last song, but with the original display on the unit and back to scrolling by artist.
If I pull the USB out and reload it each time, it will re-read as the alpha directory, but it will not retain this in memory.
So the question; Is there a way to override the original way that the unit stored the tags so that I can retain the alpha directory organization as the default, each time I shut down the sound system?
All advice appreciated.
Thx,
Fig

 

Unfortunately not.

The system rereads the MP3 tags every time it starts so that it can see if there is any new music there to index.

Some of your problem may also have to do with the tags themselves. I removed as many tags as i could from the mp3 files so that i have only atrist and track name. this allows me to have more files and also seems to allow it to sort only by folder names.

I will try a few thing tomorrow when it is daylight again and see if i can come up with something for you. i have done a lot of research on this matter as i have so much music i want to take with me. Unfortunately in my case i just have to much music.

 

thanks a bunch. This shouldn't be so hard...
fig

 

I have a 32GB flash drive with about 24GB on it. I went through all of the mp3's and converted all idv2 tags to idv1, stripped out all tags other than artist, title, and album and renamed all files to Track Number - Title. My folders are organized by alpha(A,B,C...), artist, album. I then use the DIR button to find what I want to listed. It scrolls fairly fast and usually indexes within a minute.