Music on USB stick in a D4 MY13 - issues..

[dudette]

I've been having some issues for a while now with playing MP3 music on a USB stick which is connected inside the center console lid. Some songs will play no problem, others will stop part way through (time varies), others won't play at all (with error message file can't be read or similar) - yet they all work just fine when played on a computer. Have also found that the 'shuffle folder' function mostly works.. but the 'shuffle all' generally doesn't... in fact most times it'll just freeze!

i've tried numerous different brand USB sticks, different capacities, and different configurations of the files on them (folders, no folders, different quantities of files etc etc). So far i've not come across the magical combination that just works!

then i got to wondering....Is there a limitation on the number of files that the car system can read? Is there a file bitrate it may not like?

Any help appreciated as it's driving me nuts, and i don't want to continue to resort to playing music from my phone via bluetooth.

[Ferret]

... Is there a file bitrate it may not like?

Have heard mp3 files encoded with the 'variable bit rate' format are problematic. Just what I have heard, no direct experience myself wrt Landrover but it is a known problem with some players.

Constant and Variable Bit Rates (http://www.richardfarrar.com/constant-and-variable-bit-rates/)


Being a more recent encoding method, some older MP3 players or computer software may not be compatible with variable bit rate encoded MP3 tracks or podcasts.

[Petetheprinta]

The max no of songs that can be played in a folder is 1024. Any more than that and the extra songs won’t play. They non playing songs can be scattered throughout the folder. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason on how it randomises songs. It will often play a song twice. The no of folders you can have is only limited by USB size.

I’ve found it is better to play songs sequentially not randomly. I play alphabetically by song name which I set up in my computer. This ensures a good mix of songs and artists. There are less errors this way, but it still occasionally has a error reading message. I put this down to a glitch in track rather than the player, the computer is more forgiving.