Mylink indexing issues with thumbdrive

KYDMAX · October 3, 2018

I have a 2015.5 truck with the I06 radio. I listen to most of my music on a 32gb USB thumbdrive drive plugged in the center console. The problem I'm having is something is wrong with the way it has indexed my music. It shows duplicates of all my songs, even though there is only one copy of the song on the usb stick. Sometimes when I go through and select a specific song on the screen it will play another totally different song. If I have it set to shuffle and click next it will cycle through like 4 songs before stops to actually play the song. I have tried removing the USB drive and changing the drive name and to try to trick it to re-index with no luck. Is there any way to update the MyLink software to correct the issues I'm having? Will buying a new navigation map update also update the other software? Has anyone updated the Gracenote database? My current software versions are: Software= 23228505 Gracenote= 23432184 Map=23496379. Thanks!

xMEATxHAMMERx · October 3, 2018

I have a 2015.5 truck with the I06 radio. I listen to most of my music on a 32gb USB thumbdrive drive plugged in the center console. The problem I'm having is something is wrong with the way it has indexed my music. It shows duplicates of all my songs, even though there is only one copy of the song on the usb stick. Sometimes when I go through and select a specific song on the screen it will play another totally different song. If I have it set to shuffle and click next it will cycle through like 4 songs before stops to actually play the song. I have tried removing the USB drive and changing the drive name and to try to trick it to re-index with no luck. Is there any way to update the MyLink software to correct the issues I'm having? Will buying a new navigation map update also update the other software? Has anyone updated the Gracenote database? My current software versions are: Software= 23228505 Gracenote= 23432184 Map=23496379. Thanks!

I would try reformatting the drive first, then a new drive second. I had a card in my 2015 and had no issues, but I had a drive go bad 4 months into owning my 2017. And the drives can do funny things when they go bad.

And as always... Enjoy your ride!

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j13smiley · October 3, 2018

Any time I update songs on my thumb drive, I delete it completely and re copy all the music back onto it. Seems to help with issues like that.

KYDMAX · October 5, 2018

SOLVED......I originally copied and pasted my ITunes library folder straight to the USB drive. The Mylink indexing software isn’t as good as iTunes for sorting it. So I downloaded a program called MusicBrainz Picard to sort and repair my root music folder on the USB drive. Ran roughly 1300 songs through the program and set it to save files by artist name, then album, then song. It took about 2 hours for my MacBook Pro to process all the songs. The program pulls from the internet and fills in any album artwork and other metadata and saves it along with sorted song. Put the USB back in the truck and it works great. The response is sooooo much quicker now. Night and day difference. Voice control easily finds and plays the song I ask for too!