RX450h USB music

[Lesfac]

Ive just got my first Lexus and Im enjoying finding my way around it. I'm puzzled by the order that the system shows the music on my USB stick. It seems to ignore alphabetic organisation and has scrambled the titles then put numbers in front.

Is there a way around this so that I can find folders alphabetically?

Also I have to say for such a lovely car it seems odd that the USB stick has to protrude into the storage box just waiting to be damaged when you stuff things in there.

Lesfac

[PDM]

25 minutes ago, Lesfac said:

Ive just got my first Lexus and Im enjoying finding my way around it. I'm puzzled by the order that the system shows the music on my USB stick. It seems to ignore alphabetic organisation and has scrambled the titles then put numbers in front.

Is there a way around this so that I can find folders alphabetically?

Also I have to say for such a lovely car it seems odd that the USB stick has to protrude into the storage box just waiting to be damaged when you stuff things in there.

Lesfac

Are you using album or folder view?  It's best to use Album view as the system does not present folder hierarchy properly to the user (it flattens everything and will not show a folder that itself does not directly contain mp3 files).  The system only really makes sense if you use mp3 id3 tags... you may use folders to organise it for yourself, but the system organises albums and songs based on id3 tags.  It will show album names alphabetically in album view.

The solution to the protruding usb stick is to get a small form factor device such as this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra-Flash-Drive-Read/dp/B07857Y17V

Paul

[Lesfac]

Thanks for the reply. I've ripped some of my favourite CDs into MP3 files and put them into folders with names to identify the contents. I've also made folders containing a mixture of songs and artists. The names of the folders are logical and could be found alphabetically but as I said it's all scrambled.

I am using folder search. I don't know what it does if you say album search but it doesn't help.

The folders only contain MP3 files.

It seems illogical. My Kia Sorento handled it perfectly.

I wanted to check I'm not missing something.

Lesfac

Edited April 16, 2023 by Lesfac
additional comment

[PDM]

As much as it would be nice for the folder view to behave logically - unfortunately it doesn't and there is no point in fighting it!  You aren't missing anything with folder view.... the system is just designed to play using id3 tags of individual files rather than folders.  Infact, it matters not what folders the mp3s are in.  You could just drop all of them in  the root and it would play albums based on album tag name and artists name.  It catalogues all the mp3s on the disk at start-up, by scanning all the id3 tags and builds the album list from that.

So the first thing to get this to behave sensibly is to make sure all your id3 tags are in order.

It may take you some time to get used to but I believe it will do all you need it to do, you just need to get used to how to work with it.

Let me know if you have any more questions.  

Paul

[Lesfac]

Thanks Paul

I guess I have a learning curve. I'll have to find out about id3 tags. Never heard of them before.

Les

[PDM]

30 minutes ago, Lesfac said:

Thanks Paul

I guess I have a learning curve. I'll have to find out about id3 tags. Never heard of them before.

Les

Les,

Try this software:

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Not too difficult to get to grips with it. You may eventually find it better than your previous way of working.

Paul

[Lesfac]

Thanks Paul.

I used the software and it's in much better shape now. I recognise what I'm looking at.

Cheers

Les