For those of you that use the SD card with the infotainment system, how do you organize your audio on the card? All music in a single folder? A Folder structure of Artist -> Album -> Song? How do you have your filenames?
I have a pretty big collection that I'm trying to organize in an easy to use manner.
Posted Jun 29, 2017, 10:56 PM UTC
I also have a big collection. I use FLACs all tagged with MusicBrainz. Placed Artist folders containing > Album > Song on my SD.
Protip: Format your SD card as ExFat allows for faster card access because it's a file system designed for flash memory. Was able to play 24-bit flac after formatting this way, not before with FAT32.
hmm, mine with FAT32 accesses almost instantly, I was impressed that it didn't seem to take any time to read it the first time. It's only an 8gb though. Couldn't get it to play VBR WMA files though. Now everything is in 320kbs mp3. I wonder if ExFat would have let it play the VBR files.
Maybe, but not sure, I haven't been in possession of any WMA files in well over a decade, maybe 2, because it's just not a standard anyone uses. I can tell you for certain it matters if you're using lossless files.
Even though I hardly use it directly any more, I keep everything in iTunes just because it makes everything all tidy. So, I just copy over my "iTunes Music" folder which has ./artist/album/track#-title.
Post 40 on this Vortex thread was helpful. http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7017899-Those-using-the-SD-card-for-music-how-does-it-work/page2
I used Musicbee to upload it in that exact format. Filenames were track number - track name.