- #SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE HOW TO#
- #SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE INSTALL#
- #SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE FULL#
- #SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE WINDOWS 7#
- #SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE FREE#
My plan is to rename albums to shorter names - Django One, Django Two, for example and change names of artists where the present name is something like the London Promenade Pickup Symphonic Players, to Sullivan, the composer. I have an excellent mp3 metadata editor which runs on Ubuntu Linux and will allow me to change artist and album names in an entire folder, or even globally. I'm assuming that I have some messed up album names which I'll find when I edit the file metadata. If I try manually to scroll though the albums on the little LCD, I get a couple and then no more. There is a problem with album names as well as with more complex artist names. No sweat with Django Reinhardt (D is silent) or Sviatoslav Richter, (Svee-ato-slav) or Willie Nelson, or On the Road Again, for that matter. I'm astonished at the artist names "Medea", the voice from the overhead is able to understand. It may be that I'm retreading already covered ground, but I'm busy loading a 16 gig flashdrive with the stuff I'd like to hear in my new focus SE - nice car by the way. I'm going to put the playlist files in root to start, before the 'music' folder and then go from there. I have formatted the USB drive several times in testing and right now I am going to manually copy the '.mpl' playlist files over to see if MFT can use them (or even see them) after this last sync session.įWIW - Playlists for me are just that, lists of songs to be played, not the actual files themselves just as WMP shows them to be. It copies all my music files and associated metadata (Album art, Artist Ect.) but the 'All Music' playlist does not even transfer as a file onto the USB drive so I have to assume that MFT is actually creating one so that it knows what is there. Has anybody gotten playlists in Win 8 WMP to work on a USB drive? I can't even sort by file name and Media Library won't transfer the files because they are on a removable drive (They originated from WMP anyway).
Also, if you know of different ways to create playlists on USB drives, please leave detailed instruction on how you do it.īelow are instruction I found while researching this from a Ford rep on using Windows Media Player to create a Playlist.Ĭlick to expand.This just does not work when the music files originate in WMP on Windows 8. If you try this out and find more interesting ways to use the program, please post details. I haven't tried any other folder structure but if you open the playlist created, you can see that the file locations are "relative" so I assume just about any folder structure will work. M3u as the file type and click Create Playlist. Enter a simple file name that sync will voice-recognize easily, select. Once you have your list complete, set the Save location to the top level of the USB drive. Once you have Playlist Creator installed and running on your Windows PC, plug in your USB drive and drag songs from the USB drive to the Playlist creator window.
#SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE INSTALL#
I set the "rip on CD insertion ON" and just kept feeding my computer CDs until I was done.įree Shareware that I used (be sure to deselect all of the extra software they want to install during installation).
#SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE WINDOWS 7#
I used Windows 7 Media Player 12 to rip my CDs and selected to rip at 256bit MP3 format. This structure is typically how ripping software will save MP3s. On the top level are Artist folders and inside those are the Album folders and inside those are the individual MP3 files. I then copied the files directly to my USB drive. Here's a description of the folder structure created automatically when I ripped my CD's. Also, please provide links to other threads that explain utilizing USB drives to their fullest potential with the "MyFord and Sync" system. I'm pretty sure there are dozens of ways to do this using other programs and invite others to share complete and detailed instructions on this thread.
#SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE FREE#
I ended up finding a free program called "Playlist Creator" to easily create playlists straight off the USB drive files. I can sometimes find Microsoft Media Player confusing and I needed something simple.
#SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE HOW TO#
I was having difficulty figuring out how to create playlists. I recently ripped all my CDs to MP3s and wanted to use a USB drive with the "MyFord and Sync" system.
Also, these instructions and the program explained below are for Windows computers. I have the basic MyFord and Sync system, but this might work just as well on MFT.
#SYNC PLAYLIST TO USB DRIVE FULL#
If you already have a usb drive full of music, you can skip to "Creating the playlist".