I sort my music by Album, and have the songs played in LP order. Playing them back on my PC was fine.
When I had my Pioneer headunit in- I quickly learned that playback order was all over the place when playing back by Album. It was my first intro to USB stick music. You may need to create Playlists and sort within those too.
It may not be needed with ALL headunits, but there is a program you should use when you write music to your USB Stick- whether by Album Folder or Playlist. After searching for my problem- playback jumbled order, I found reference to a program called Drivesort. There was also a quick set of instruction as to what options to tick and how to use it. In its File Manager inteface- you will see some weird symbols(~, etc) as well as compressed names, but once I added music, I fired up Drivesort(once I had correct options set), it took a bit to read all my directories. I clicked Sort and Save, and it took roughly 10 minutes to resort through all directories. My USB Stick seems to work in a number of vehicles- that way I wanted it to.
Drivesort is just a .exe executable file that you need to launch from within Windows Explorer. Once you have set options for your own sorting needs, Drivesort will save those option upon closing. The next time using it- point it to USB Stick Drive, sort and save.
Chris
When I had my Pioneer headunit in- I quickly learned that playback order was all over the place when playing back by Album. It was my first intro to USB stick music. You may need to create Playlists and sort within those too.
It may not be needed with ALL headunits, but there is a program you should use when you write music to your USB Stick- whether by Album Folder or Playlist. After searching for my problem- playback jumbled order, I found reference to a program called Drivesort. There was also a quick set of instruction as to what options to tick and how to use it. In its File Manager inteface- you will see some weird symbols(~, etc) as well as compressed names, but once I added music, I fired up Drivesort(once I had correct options set), it took a bit to read all my directories. I clicked Sort and Save, and it took roughly 10 minutes to resort through all directories. My USB Stick seems to work in a number of vehicles- that way I wanted it to.
Drivesort is just a .exe executable file that you need to launch from within Windows Explorer. Once you have set options for your own sorting needs, Drivesort will save those option upon closing. The next time using it- point it to USB Stick Drive, sort and save.
Chris
