How to rescan USB flash drive when new songs are added

garyo · August 4, 2020

The USB music player works very well, I really like it. I added some new songs to the device but when I plug it back into the truck it does not see them. Is there a way to rescan the USB flash drive so the radio can see the new songs? I searched and could not find it.

Thanks,

garyo

redwngr · August 4, 2020

29 minutes ago, garyo said:

The USB music player works very well, I really like it. I added some new songs to the device but when I plug it back into the truck it does not see them. Is there a way to rescan the USB flash drive so the radio can see the new songs? I searched and could not find it.

Thanks,

garyo

Settings in audio in personalization maybe?

. Reset Music Index: This allows the music index to be reset if
you are having difficulty accessing all of the media content on your device.
Touch Yes or No.

garyo · August 5, 2020

Reset Music Index is greyed out. Any ideas?

garyo

redwngr · August 7, 2020

On 8/4/2020 at 8:46 PM, garyo said:

Reset Music Index is greyed out. Any ideas?

garyo

Did you try to use search to find the 'missing' tunes?

Sorry, I'm just guessing.

Grandpa1 · August 7, 2020

Are the new songs in the right format? MP3?

garyo · August 7, 2020

Yes I did a search and could not find them. Yes they are all MP3 format. I guess I'll change the volume name and see if that works.

Thanks for the reply's.

diyer2 · August 7, 2020

My experience isn't with the newer vehicles. When I added new songs to a flash drive I wiped the drive clean and reloaded all the songs. I also didn't use MP3. Probably doesn't matter though.

garyo · August 7, 2020

Okay, I think I figured it out. For some reason there seems to be a cap on how many files I can have on the root of the flash drive. So I just created a folder, then put all the songs in there and they are all recognized and play. Go figure. I know the max amount of files for an NTFS root is 512 but I only had a couple of hundred in there, no where near 512. So I'm stumped. Any of you guys have hundreds or thousands of music files in the root of your flash drive? I have that mini sandisk cruzer fit 64GB.

Thanks for everybody's help and suggestions.

garyo

Transient · August 25, 2020

Not a flash drive, but on my cell phone I have over 2,100 songs. My truck has no problems reading and playing them when I'm not using Android Auto.

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