CD/usb data transfer issues

[13Goat]

New here, so maybe this has been hashed/rehashed before. 2013 2500 with a dead cd player (the one in the console). Decided to put my collection of cd's on to a 16gb thumb drive. I loaded about six albums on the drive, and then I decided to see how they looked and played in the truck. Well, all of the albums are there (all 84 songs) but they are not separated by album title, artist, or any logical order. The first album title I transferred is what shows up on the display, and the songs are numbered 1-84. I did the transfers on Windows 10, using Windows Media Player. Anyone have the same results transferring to usb?Any suggestions as to how to keep each album in its own discreet file? I don't want to go down the road trying to find a particular song out of x number of other songs.

 

[jejb]

Format the drive as Fat32. Then drag folders/albums over from your Music folder on the computer and drop them on the thumb drive. See if that cures it. You might try putting this question in the correct generation forum too. The software has changed a lot since 2013.

BTW, I see in you list your motor as a "Cummings". No insult intended, but there is no "g" in there. It's Cummins.

 

[13Goat]

Oops, my bad. Did not check my spelling before posting!!!!

 

[smittyd174]

First off format drive to Fat 32 like mentioned . Instead of transferring the album over . Create a file on your desktop , then copy and paste the songs only to this file , you can select all songs and move the entire album at once , once you have copied all songs to the file send them to the flash drive . Note all songs must be mp3 , wma or other supported file . I have a 64 gig stick I used in my 2010 , 2016 and now in my 2022 around 1500 songs on it .
The only thing about my 22 is you can't use the voice activation to play a certain song on my 10 and 16 press the va button and say play song and it would play that song .
It's not hard and if you can't get it ask a 10 year old , they can do it . That's from personal experience lol

 

[WY-Dave]

the audio files that are "ripped" from the cd are usually encoded with the name, artist album etc.

this will manually put in the information
Right ckick on the file name


Then fill in the blanks

 

[jejb]

Oops, my bad. Did not check my spelling before posting!!!!

It was not in your post, it's in your info under your userid.

<<<<< Over in this section. You'll have to go into your board settings to change it.

The wife's 21 Pacifica was pitching a fit over her USB drives again yesterday. Only seeing one song, not changing the song title when it changed songs, etc. I did a soft reboot (hold down both the radio knobs for about 10 seconds) of the system while she was driving. When it rebooted, all was good.

 

[mtnrider]

Like WY-Dave said, you are missing the metadata or "mp3 Tag". There are tools that can add that data for you or you can do it manually, but that is going to be time consuming. Just search mp3 metatdata or mp3 tag programs.
Media player is just a dumb ripper and will just number them sequentially. There are better rippers that can make this much easier and add the data in the process.
The radio doesn't read the file name, it reads the metadata



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[13Goat]

Well, thanks everyone for the input. We get through the holidays I'm going to get back after it and see if I can get this crazy thing to work. Got an 11 year old granddaughter--might get her involved in working this out. Thanks and Merry Christmas, all.