Dragon2U

Hi all,
I just started playing around with burning some MP3's for my ride and ran into a snag. I have an 08 XB2 with the upgraded Pioneer player in it. No matter how many songs I place on the disk or how I arrange them the player will only read 64 of them. I cannot find anywhere in the documentation about limits other than they say that there is a limit of 192 folders and that the song name cannot be longer than 64 characters. I have tried a few different disks and no matter how many songs are actually on the disk the head unit only reads and plays the first 64.

I must be doing something wrong, the disk can hold a ton more songs, please help!!

TIA

Slody4Futbol

are you putting them into seperate folders? like...

ROOT

Folder 1 / Songs 1-20
Folder 2 / Songs 21-40
Folder 3 / Songs 41-60
Folder 4 / Songs 61-80
Folder 5 / Songs 81-100

Or putting them all into one folder?

Dragon2U

I originally placed them all in the Root directory, no folder at all, and of course that didn't work. I tried separate folders and had a similar issue but now see that it was "normal" to see a smaller number in folders as well. Where did you find that info? I tried "Search" here and looked in my manuals and couldn't find squat.


Thanks for the reply and assistance!

Slody4Futbol

been installing a while.. a lot of radios with mp3 capability can't see no more than X amount of files per folder.. so it's common to organize the mp3's before putting them on cd.. helps you.. and help the radio lol.. organize by cd.. artist.. or if it's a compilation of a bunch of stuff i used to do folders for artists with names A-D, E-L, M-R, S-Z.. try breaking it down with less than 64 songs per folder and see if that works

Dragon2U

Well ....... I did some experimenting and now I am really confused. Here are the folders I made up and the songs I had in them, then to the right is what the radio says I have in each folder. Some have less and some more but I am still about 40 songs short?????

Folder 1 had 17 but shows 16
Folder 2 had 29 but shows 20
Folder 3 had 26 but shows 18
Folder 4 had 30 but shows 14
Folder 5 had 5 but shows 16
Folder 6 had 18 but shows 5

When I tried it with all the songs in the root and no folders I think I had 140 songs but it only listed 64 of them. I am getting more songs recognized but I am still missing almost 1/3 or them.

Still confused and need a little assistance or clarification .................
Thanks

Slody4Futbol

are they all mp3? or are some wma? i know some radios have issues if you mix in teh same folder.. make sure you don't have any mp3, wav, wma, ogg, or anything else mixed in

Dragon2U

Good tip but yes, they were all MP3.

I tried burning one more time before I called it a nite, this time I made more folders (12) but limited the number of songs to 10 each and all 120 songs are now recognized in the player. I guess I will stick with the 10 song limit per folder.

It took a lot of experimenting but finally figured it out with your assistance. I appreciate the tips, maybe this will help someone else ......... I wondered why I was always hearing the some songs often and never remembered hearing others.

Thanks again!

Slody4Futbol

no problem

Florida'09xB

i have no such problems with my premium pioneer and mp3 playback. all in one folder, it plays over 100 songs.