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09-12-2012, 07:22 PM | #1 |
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[DIY] USB Audio Fixes (FR-S Stock HU)
wasn't sure if i should post this in the DIY section as it seemed more appropriate here since people looking for help with this will likely head straight to the audio subforum.
i recently made the switch from bluetooth to USB after i realized how much better USB is. i took @Bonburner's suggestion and bought the [ame="http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Flash-Drive-SDCZ33-032G-B35/dp/B00812F7O8/"]SanDisk 32gb Cruzer Fit from amazon[/ame] and i think that this is honestly the way to go. excellent quality flash drive, quick. so i got started loading my music to it and after having used it for about a week, i've come across 2 very annoying issues. work was a bit slow today so i had some time to resolve them. 1. Certain MP3's not working. this one is pretty annoying and you don't really know if you have a non-working mp3 unless you specifically browse to that song only to see your stereo skip to the next one. i'm not entirely sure what causes this issue, but the fix for this is to reencode that mp3. for this i recommend dBpoweramp Music Converter. i've linked to their page, which offers a 21 day fully working trial. i bought this program a while back because i found that it's the best at what it does.
that's it for that one. this song should now work perfectly fine on your stock stereo. 2. Songs not listed in alphabetical order. the way i have my songs set up on my flash drive is as follows. 00 New Album the first time i set this up and used it in my car, it worked great. i had only put a handful of albums on there, but they were all in alphabetical order and everything was fine. when i added some more music the next day, i found that all of the new folder and subsequent songs i added were at the bottom of the list instead of mixed in alphabetically with whatever was already on there. i searched a bit online and found several people saying that you have to sort your music in a folder on your computer first, then copy everything all at once to the flash drive. that seemed like a waste of time and a bit of an annoyance to me as you would have to do that every time you wanted to add a new song. so i eventually found a program called DriveSort. i'm not sure how this does what it does, but it worked like a charm. this program does come with an "at your own risk" warning, but i've used it a couple of times now and haven't had any issues.
you'll have to repeat this every time you add new songs, but luckily it takes less than a minute. this will also work for individual folders. for this, simply follow steps 1 to 3, then open a folder by double clicking on it. select all the mp3's in the folder using the same method in step 4 (the mp3's have a different icon). and then follow through with steps 5 and 6.so there you go, i hope this helps. please post your results and if you find any better ways of doing things.
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09-13-2012, 08:32 PM | #2 |
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How are you having issues ?
My car links up bluetooth without a problem , If you really are worked up about "better music" then you should buy production CD's , nothing beats it.. I-Tapatalk |
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I haven't found free time to figure out how to fix the title and artist reading but I'll take a look into that program soon
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title and artist reading?
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Yup, you can shuffle the Stereo Header's text to show the File name, Artist/Song Name, or Folder/Track or something like that.
The artist and song name are under the file's Details tab. Even though they All say what it should say some says No Name No Artist
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i think that's just a matter of adding the info in the mp3 properties. you can do that in windows explorer.
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Some say No Name No Artist though
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oh i've had that happen somewhere else before. i had to find the mp3 in itunes, right click it and convert ID3 tags to v2.2. that usually did the trick but i'm not sure how to do that outside of itunes.
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Tracks on USB drives are played in the order that they were placed on (copied to) the drive. It seems this is true regardless of whatever other folders, structures or tags you have built. My guess is that the program you found loads the tracks in the order that you have built, so it solves the problem. If you try to add a new song or album, this goes to the end of the line since it was the last to be added. Re-doing the entire drive with the program again probably re-installs each song in the order you intended, fixing the problem. Modern computers are extraordinarily efficient devices. Normally they copy files (tracks) to a USB drive in the most efficient manner that they were programmed for. This may or may not have anything to do with the alphabetical or track order that you have so carefully set up. Sorting may allow Windows to copy them in the intended order. You're lucky you found this program. I use a Mac computer to load radio shows (downloaded from my subscription) to a USB drive. The only method I have found that works is to load each track individually in the order I want the STUPID stereo to play them in. It's really a pain in the neck. Thankfully I never have more than about 30 tracks at a time.
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It's not a problem when working on computers because newer computers use a different format for the hard drives. Flash drives are still FAT32, but nearly any computer automatically sorts it before showing the files to you. They probably don't do this automatically on most head units because of the limited processing power - it takes a relatively large amount of processing power to sort things quickly. Head units are already slow enough reading from USB that they aren't going to add processing power (and increase cost) or sort it anyway (and add load time). |
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