Somewhere I read that you can have 3 or 4 playlists. Which seems like quite a limitation to me. Must be somewhere in the console.I'm considering buying a new TLX with the tech package and today I attempted to listen to music from my own USB drive and I found the interface rather poor and this is a problem for me. I have my music organized by artist/album and correctly tagged, and I have a folder with a number of playlists. But I found no way to load a playlist in the TLX. Is this possible? Did I need to initiate a scan of the device somehow?
Never a dumb question.dumb question, im old-school and do not sort anything by artist/album in mp3 metadata
im hardcore DOS style folders/filenames type of guy lol
will the TLX be able to load files simply by folder and files?
Thanks for the welcome.Somewhere I read that you can have 3 or 4 playlists. Which seems like quite a limitation to me. Must be somewhere in the console.
The interface is a bit plain. I copied over my MP3s that I bought on Amazon. I moved over the entire folder structure with album art. The display shows the folder structure and the songs within the folder. It's not as pretty at the HDD directory. The album art is cool though. I wonder if it pulls art from my USB or gets it through GraceNote?
I see this is your first post, Welcome to the Forum!
I agree, using a playlist should be a lot easier. I am looking forward to trying playlists out once I get my car back from the shop. With a lot of songs , playlists make sense, if not a necessity.Thanks for the welcome.
Loading an m3u files should be dead simple, I'm a software developer and I can tell you there are fewer files that are easier to read than an m3u file. For some reason Apple has never chosen to support them, thus making iTunes not work well with other media players, and it looks like Acura is in bed with Apple and they only want ipods and iphones to work well with their system.
I like to load a few thousand files on a device along with a few playlists, load a playlist, and just go from there. Works absolutely great in my Ford Focus. Should be a simple operation for any system really.
I don't like to listen to music from my phone either, after all I can easily get cheap USB sticks and load them up with as much music as possible, getting phones with tons of extra space isn't that easy. Then there's the battery issue, or I have to always plug the phone in when I drive, and so on. It's just not the way I want to do it. And I just can't help but feel that a $40k car should work the way I want it to in this regards and that I shouldn't have to change what I do to suit it, especially when others do it fine.
What if you create a m3u file on your PC and copy that file to your USB?I'm considering buying a new TLX with the tech package and today I attempted to listen to music from my own USB drive and I found the interface rather poor and this is a problem for me. I have my music organized by artist/album and correctly tagged, and I have a folder with a number of playlists. But I found no way to load a playlist in the TLX. Is this possible? Did I need to initiate a scan of the device somehow?
Good question and good discovery.here's a challenge for you guys....or rather guinea pigs
i have a mp3 file that i have been able to play on the computer, my cell phone and on my lexus (via usb).............just not on the TLX (via usb). it can load the file name but it just says "unplayable file"
the major difference this mp3 file has over other files: it is 4 hours long. yes, four hours
basically its a non-stop mix of a crap load of songs
so i was wondering if the TLX's mp3 system has a cap on how big of a file their system can playback, and if my file is way too long to be supported. can you guys give it a try for me please? thanks in advance
just for the record, mp3s that are 1 hr long plays fine
I decided to check before I went off to bed. Amazing.any luck, my friend?
Another good idea. I will add it to my list for my grand report.maybe u can forward it to acura and see what they say about it....
Can confirm, on all Acura around 2016 and 2017 will not play long MP3's on an USB. I keep trying and have had no luck. I make music mixes and they are upwards of 8 hours long and I can not get them to play. Acura has no answers. I have tried AAC and WMA formats and no luck. New USB sticks, nope. These tracks play on everything else, other cars, trucks, computers just not on a certain generation of Acura vehicles. Very frustrating.tried re-converting the long mp3s, no go
tried taking a 1hr mp3 that works, make duplicates and have it play back to back, and create one big mp3 file
2hr still works
3hr no works
i give up
also another pet peeve: it takes 3 taps on the touchscreen to change the repeat/random playback modes. which is fine, but every time you skip the next song, the repeat/random setting is reset, which i find annoying because i will have tap 3 times again, and will cause distracted driving. they really should provide a small touch icon area on the playback screen that can toggle between different repeat/random modes on the fly