usb drive playlists support

[weeb webber]

hey everyone. regarding the 2021 G70, i'm trying to figure out what, if any types of playlists can be recognized when using a usb (mass storage 500GB) samsung T5 ssd drive. when i connect my ipod classic, i can access them fine, but playlists created in windows media player and saved to the ssd drive don't show up at all. another this is that the car's audio system does not show all the artists/music on the ssd either. any info and/or solutions out there?

 

[sethsquire]

hey everyone. regarding the 2021 G70, i'm trying to figure out what, if any types of playlists can be recognized when using a usb (mass storage 500GB) samsung T5 ssd drive. when i connect my ipod classic, i can access them fine, but playlists created in windows media player and saved to the ssd drive don't show up at all. another this is that the car's audio system does not show all the artists/music on the ssd either. any info and/or solutions out there?

I keep a bunch of mp3's in separate folders (by album) on a flash drive and it works fine for me.

 

[weeb webber]

I keep a bunch of mp3's in separate folders (by album) on a flash drive and it works fine for me.

yeah, i am able to do that part. but, have you successfully tried to use your own custom playlists on that drive as well? thanks for the reply.

 

[sethsquire]

yeah, i am able to do that part. but, have you successfully tried to use your own custom playlists on that drive as well? thanks for the reply.

No, but if you wanted you could just create folders with all the files in there on the USB drive and play it like that?

 

[woofmang]

hey everyone. regarding the 2021 G70, i'm trying to figure out what, if any types of playlists can be recognized when using a usb (mass storage 500GB) samsung T5 ssd drive. when i connect my ipod classic, i can access them fine, but playlists created in windows media player and saved to the ssd drive don't show up at all. another this is that the car's audio system does not show all the artists/music on the ssd either. any info and/or solutions out there?

Here's what has worked for me with USB drives made on Windows:

Create a file named "playlist.m3u" in the top level of the drive.
Inside that file, list all of the tracks by folder, like the following:

Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\02 Stockholm.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\03 Traveling Alone.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\04 Elephant.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\05 Flying Over Water.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\06 Different Days.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\07 Live Oak.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\08 Songs That She Sang In The Shower.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\09 New South Wales.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\10 Super 8.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\11 Yvette.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\12 Relatively Easy.mp3

In this example, I have a "Jason Isbell" folder on the top level of the drive, and inside that folder, I have several of his albums, each in its own folder (in this case, the album is "Southeastern"), and inside each album folder are the individual tracks as shown.

To speed up the process of creating the playlist file, open a command prompt window in the top level folder where the music is and type "DIR /B /S > playlist.m3u" (without the quotes). This will create the playlist file and write a list of all the tracks to it in the format above.

Then, open the file in a text editor like notepad (don't use Word; this file has to be plain text), and do a mass delete of anything that comes before the top level folders that represent artists (assuming you have a folder structure like mine).

For example, my music is stored in a folder in my Documents folder on my C drive, so the m3u file in my case had a list with the full directory path to every mp3 file, like "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3" and so on. In this case, I deleted "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\" from every line of the file.

What you end up with then is a list of every track with the full path from the top level of the folder, as shown above. You also get a list of the folders that the individual tracks are in (in my example above, there was also a line that just said "Jason Isbell\Southeastern"), and you should delete those, too.

The USB drive that I made like this works in every car I've ever driven that has a USB port that can be used to play music.

Hope this helps.

 

[weeb webber]

Here's what has worked for me with USB drives made on Windows:

Create a file named "playlist.m3u" in the top level of the drive.
Inside that file, list all of the tracks by folder, like the following:

Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\02 Stockholm.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\03 Traveling Alone.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\04 Elephant.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\05 Flying Over Water.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\06 Different Days.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\07 Live Oak.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\08 Songs That She Sang In The Shower.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\09 New South Wales.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\10 Super 8.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\11 Yvette.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\12 Relatively Easy.mp3

In this example, I have a "Jason Isbell" folder on the top level of the drive, and inside that folder, I have several of his albums, each in its own folder (in this case, the album is "Southeastern"), and inside each album folder are the individual tracks as shown.

To speed up the process of creating the playlist file, open a command prompt window in the top level folder where the music is and type "DIR /B /S > playlist.m3u" (without the quotes). This will create the playlist file and write a list of all the tracks to it in the format above.

Then, open the file in a text editor like notepad (don't use Word; this file has to be plain text), and do a mass delete of anything that comes before the top level folders that represent artists (assuming you have a folder structure like mine).

For example, my music is stored in a folder in my Documents folder on my C drive, so the m3u file in my case had a list with the full directory path to every mp3 file, like "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3" and so on. In this case, I deleted "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\" from every line of the file.

What you end up with then is a list of every track with the full path from the top level of the folder, as shown above. You also get a list of the folders that the individual tracks are in (in my example above, there was also a line that just said "Jason Isbell\Southeastern"), and you should delete those, too.

The USB drive that I made like this works in every car I've ever driven that has a USB port that can be used to play music.

Hope this helps.

awesome thanks. i'll give that a try!

 

[Ace Deprave]

Here's what has worked for me with USB drives made on Windows:

Create a file named "playlist.m3u" in the top level of the drive.
Inside that file, list all of the tracks by folder, like the following:

Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\02 Stockholm.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\03 Traveling Alone.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\04 Elephant.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\05 Flying Over Water.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\06 Different Days.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\07 Live Oak.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\08 Songs That She Sang In The Shower.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\09 New South Wales.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\10 Super 8.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\11 Yvette.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\12 Relatively Easy.mp3

In this example, I have a "Jason Isbell" folder on the top level of the drive, and inside that folder, I have several of his albums, each in its own folder (in this case, the album is "Southeastern"), and inside each album folder are the individual tracks as shown.

You have excellent taste in music!

 

[AuditoGenesis]

Hi all,
Tried this and still no joy.
Playlists just do NOT show up as an option.
Do I need to navigate to them via the folder option?

Here's what has worked for me with USB drives made on Windows:

Create a file named "playlist.m3u" in the top level of the drive.
Inside that file, list all of the tracks by folder, like the following:

Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\02 Stockholm.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\03 Traveling Alone.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\04 Elephant.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\05 Flying Over Water.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\06 Different Days.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\07 Live Oak.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\08 Songs That She Sang In The Shower.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\09 New South Wales.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\10 Super 8.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\11 Yvette.mp3
Jason Isbell\Southeastern\12 Relatively Easy.mp3

In this example, I have a "Jason Isbell" folder on the top level of the drive, and inside that folder, I have several of his albums, each in its own folder (in this case, the album is "Southeastern"), and inside each album folder are the individual tracks as shown.

To speed up the process of creating the playlist file, open a command prompt window in the top level folder where the music is and type "DIR /B /S > playlist.m3u" (without the quotes). This will create the playlist file and write a list of all the tracks to it in the format above.

Then, open the file in a text editor like notepad (don't use Word; this file has to be plain text), and do a mass delete of anything that comes before the top level folders that represent artists (assuming you have a folder structure like mine).

For example, my music is stored in a folder in my Documents folder on my C drive, so the m3u file in my case had a list with the full directory path to every mp3 file, like "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\Jason Isbell\Southeastern\01 Cover Me Up.mp3" and so on. In this case, I deleted "C:\Users\My Name\Documents\Music for Car\" from every line of the file.

What you end up with then is a list of every track with the full path from the top level of the folder, as shown above. You also get a list of the folders that the individual tracks are in (in my example above, there was also a line that just said "Jason Isbell\Southeastern"), and you should delete those, too.

The USB drive that I made like this works in every car I've ever driven that has a USB port that can be used to play music.

Hope this helps.

 

[AuditoGenesis]

Hi all,
Tried this and still no joy.
Playlists just do NOT show up as an option.
Do I need to navigate to them via the folder option?

Apologies for resurrecting this, but has anyone solved the playlist issue, and if so, how? I've already tried the instructions, above.

TIA

 

[wpscully]

To paraphrase:

... Create a file named "playlist.m3u" in the top level of the drive ... list ... every track with the full path from the top level of the folder... . The [playlist] works in every car I've ever driven that has a USB port that can be used to play music.

I completely agree with your example creating "playlist.m3u". A USB stick with the playlist created with your technique will play on, for example, Windows Media Player as a playlist. Change the back-slashes (\) to forward-slashes {/} and your playlist works properly on Linux or UNIX media players. Technically I think your example is showing "relative paths", from the playlist file to the music file. For this reason the playlist file must be in the root of the USB drive, as you say. So far, so good!

But how did you tell the system to play "playlist.m3u", as opposed to, say, "mylist.m3u"?

Here's why I ask. (And to be as clear as I can, I have attached two pictures from the Genesis Digital Owner's web site showing the USB Music interface screens.) The first, the USB Music image, shows the currently-playing album and artwork, and controls like play/pause, next/previous track, etc. On this screen In the upper right-hand corner is the "List" button, which Genesis describes: "Moves to the file list screen". Attached is a file showing that "List" image too. In the center of that screen is a hierarchical listing of the files and folders found on the USB stick. Along the left edge of this List screen is a way to change the center list to show the Artists, Songs, Albums, and "Recently Added" files. What I do not see is any way to select an arbitrary m3u file.

So again, how do you choose play list "abc.m3u" as opposed to "xyz.m3u"?

I thought tapping "List" on the USB Music screen, then "Files" (on the left edge) of the List screen might show all the m3u files saved in the root of the USB stick. But on my 2022 Genesis G70 2.0 Prestige Edition with 15 speaker premium sound, it doesn't. I can't find any way to show me any m3u files anywhere, in parent or child folders.

Why does this matter? In your example you've created an m3u file to play all the songs on one album. But how about a playlist for "all the number one songs from 1970-1979". Certainly one could hand-create a folder containing each of perhaps 100 MP3s copied from each artist's album folder. But that's tedious. This is the use-case for playlists. And that's why being able to point to a playlist and have Genesis play the song found within matters.

Thanks in advance for any additional info you can add.

Please understand I'm not trying to be a jerk by describing this in such excruciating detail. I'm just not sure the answers so far are helping me "select a play list" as opposed to "create a play list." I need help with the former, not the latter.


PS: Here's the contents of the USB stick I'm using to test:

E:\>dir
Volume in drive E is G70-Music
Volume Serial Number is 4A63-CC3D

Directory of E:\

08/09/2022 12:23 AM <DIR> London Warsaw New York
08/09/2022 12:23 AM <DIR> Aretha Franklin
08/09/2022 12:34 AM 162 G70-Test.m3u
1 File(s) 162 bytes
2 Dir(s) 31,020,679,168 bytes free

E:\>type G70-Test.m3u
\Aretha Franklin\00 Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do).mp3
\London Warsaw New York\07 Basia - Until You Come Back To Me.mp3

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[AuditoGenesis]

I have the exact same problem and, no matter what format of M3U or M3U8 file I use, nothing works.
I've tried changing the coding (ISO-Latin, ASCII, etc.) but it just will not recognize a playlist.
I ended up having to put each playlist in a separate folder, which creates duplicates among some playlists....

]The system has a limit of 8K files, which seems to be in total, versus per folder, so those duplicates means I've had to "tighten my belt" on what music I can put onto the drive....

To paraphrase:

I completely agree with your example creating "playlist.m3u". A USB stick with the playlist created with your technique will play on, for example, Windows Media Player as a playlist. Change the back-slashes (\) to forward-slashes {/} and your playlist works properly on Linux or UNIX media players. Technically I think your example is showing "relative paths", from the playlist file to the music file. For this reason the playlist file must be in the root of the USB drive, as you say. So far, so good!

But how did you tell the system to play "playlist.m3u", as opposed to, say, "mylist.m3u"?

Here's why I ask. (And to be as clear as I can, I have attached two pictures from the Genesis Digital Owner's web site showing the USB Music interface screens.) The first, the USB Music image, shows the currently-playing album and artwork, and controls like play/pause, next/previous track, etc. On this screen In the upper right-hand corner is the "List" button, which Genesis describes: "Moves to the file list screen". Attached is a file showing that "List" image too. In the center of that screen is a hierarchical listing of the files and folders found on the USB stick. Along the left edge of this List screen is a way to change the center list to show the Artists, Songs, Albums, and "Recently Added" files. What I do not see is any way to select an arbitrary m3u file.

So again, how do you choose play list "abc.m3u" as opposed to "xyz.m3u"?

I thought tapping "List" on the USB Music screen, then "Files" (on the left edge) of the List screen might show all the m3u files saved in the root of the USB stick. But on my 2022 Genesis G70 2.0 Prestige Edition with 15 speaker premium sound, it doesn't. I can't find any way to show me any m3u files anywhere, in parent or child folders.

Why does this matter? In your example you've created an m3u file to play all the songs on one album. But how about a playlist for "all the number one songs from 1970-1979". Certainly one could hand-create a folder containing each of perhaps 100 MP3s copied from each artist's album folder. But that's tedious. This is the use-case for playlists. And that's why being able to point to a playlist and have Genesis play the song found within matters.

Thanks in advance for any additional info you can add.

Please understand I'm not trying to be a jerk by describing this in such excruciating detail. I'm just not sure the answers so far are helping me "select a play list" as opposed to "create a play list." I need help with the former, not the latter.


PS: Here's the contents of the USB stick I'm using to test:

E:\>dir
Volume in drive E is G70-Music
Volume Serial Number is 4A63-CC3D

Directory of E:\

08/09/2022 12:23 AM <DIR> London Warsaw New York
08/09/2022 12:23 AM <DIR> Aretha Franklin
08/09/2022 12:34 AM 162 G70-Test.m3u
1 File(s) 162 bytes
2 Dir(s) 31,020,679,168 bytes free

E:\>type G70-Test.m3u
\Aretha Franklin\00 Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do).mp3
\London Warsaw New York\07 Basia - Until You Come Back To Me.mp3

 

[Olosaf]

I have the exact same problem and, no matter what format of M3U or M3U8 file I use, nothing works.
I've tried changing the coding (ISO-Latin, ASCII, etc.) but it just will not recognize a playlist.
I ended up having to put each playlist in a separate folder, which creates duplicates among some playlists....

]The system has a limit of 8K files, which seems to be in total, versus per folder, so those duplicates means I've had to "tighten my belt" on what music I can put onto the drive....

From everything I have read everywhere, it can't be done. Hyundai did not design their systems to recognize Playlists.

It's blowing my mind that this luxury brand can't do things my 2010 Mercury could do.