Media player MP3's

Eddcole · April 6, 2018

Hi all, just bought a 2015 IS300h Advance, so far I love it apart from the navigation version that appears to version 1. I was rather hoping it would be the premium.

Any way too late now. My questions are as follows.

1. Is it possible to upgrade to the premium and what is involved? also rough idea of cost.

2. I can get the media player to play the MP3's from usb but they appear to play in a random order

3. can you structur the USB so you can see the folder names so I can then go to artist/Album etc

Thanks in advance

Edd

route66 · April 6, 2018

I'm not in the car now, but the basic thing you need to do - once in the media player - is to move the wheel LEFT to get a menu that will allow folder access

Thackeray · April 6, 2018

9 hours ago, Eddcole said:

I can get the media player to play the MP3's from usb but they appear to play in a random order

Turn off "Random/Shuffle" in the USB menu.

Blisteringblue · April 7, 2018

The USB media is OK but I think it struggles a little with the ID3 tags embedded into the files. In the end I pretty much stripped all my files of theirs and rebuilt with very basic info

Artist ; Album ; Track ; Track Number ; Genre and I also changed all embedded album art to 120 x 120 size. With each artist name as the First folder on the USB stick and then just a single folder for each album under this.

After doing this the wheel navigation on my standard infotainment works fine. Can View happily via Artist ; Track ; Album ; Genre etc and you always get the correct album art and not those awful gracenote pictures.

Eddcole · April 8, 2018

Cheers guys for the replies. Really helpful. Looks like a busy weekend coming up

Blisteringblue · April 9, 2018

The only bug that really annoys me with the USB is if you stop the car while playing USB and forget to restart the track when you next start the car it reverts to track 1 folder 1 on the USB Stick. I swear every-time I forget. The only work around I've found is just start the playing track as soon as you start the car (sometimes a couple of times) and then it can normally sort itself out, you know when it will work when the mini dash screen shows the track info again.