Hello,


I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why some albums will not play in the order on the track listing. It looks to me that they play in alpha order.


I've edited the track info in iTunes, making sure the tracks #'s are sequential. The filenames on the mp3's have numbers in front of them, ie 01_track1.mp3 etc. These are albums that have been downloaded from Amazon.


When selecting something to play, I choose the artist list which is broken down into albums by that artist and then I choose the particular album.


Any ideas what piece of info in an mp3 file the MINI keys off?


Thanks.

 

Not sure this will help, but during a long cross country trip I had a chance to play with a USB drive with LOTS of music. There are some quirks with how a mini reads a USB drive.

When you insert a USB drive for the first time, you'll see it say 'scanning' in the display. This can go on for a couple of minutes depending on how many files are on it. Apparently it reads the meta data that is stored in each file. By meta data; artist, genre, album, etc. It then stores this data, according to the manual, for up to 4 different USB drives. This is assuming the meta data is actually in the file. That is how it knows when you select artist, it will only play songs from that artist. As far as your problem, they only way I've gotten it work correctly is to put all the songs for a given album in a separate folder, select that folder, then it seems to work correctly alphabetically.

But that creates a problem when you select random as it will only random play songs in that folder. Soooo, I gave up and put all my songs in a single folder called Music and decided not to worry about it.

 

How's the sound quality? Is it better than iPod connected through mini adapter?

 

Should be pretty much the same, it's just playing an audio file..

 

I figured there may be an improvement due to using the audio systems internal dac rather than the outboard device attached via Mini Cooper iPod adapter which uses iPod dac through the line in on the system

 

I have a 64gb sandisk 2.0 thumb drive with @ 2600 songs on it. How long does it take for all of the data to transmit to the car? I can find all artists and albums but some won't play. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. It took almost 3 hours for my computer to copy all of my iTunes to the drive.

Thank you

 

My drive has almost 1000 songs on it and it took around 30 seconds to scan them. From reading the manual, it appears that just about any audio file type will play, except a file that was encoded over 256 k/bits per second. From the manual -

Popular audio files, such as MP3, AAC and
M3U playlists, PLS and WPL, can be played.
Depending on the audio file, proper playback
can not be ensured in every case, such
as for bit rates greater than 256 kbit/s.

Music tracks with integrated Digital Rights
Management (DRM) cannot be played.

 

After a bit of playing around, I finally got the two albums I was having difficulty with show up in the correct order.


It does seem that it is ordering them based on the track # in the file metadata. I had originally looked at that before posting originally and I don't really know what changed in the files when I was playing around with it. The file's metadata looks to me the same as before I posted, but now they line up right. Who knows...


I do wish that this audio system could play FLAC's, but I guess with road noise and the channel issue, it doesn't really make that much of a difference.