New XC60 Playlists

[ukden]

Collected new XC60 from dealer yesterday.

Very impressed with car (so far).

One problem I have not yet found a solution for, is using Playlists on a USB stick.
According to the manual, the system can access up to 100 Playlists with a maximum of 1000 files per playlist.

I have tried using a USB stick with approx 1500 mp3 files saved in album based folders. I have tried a .pls playlist and a .m3u playlist each with a selection of tunes from the various albums.
The car does not seem to recognise the playlists, they do not appear on the screen. I can however choose individual tracks, artists, etc.

Anyone any suggestions?

[Lexman8]

See post #11 here: https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showt...light=playlist

[Lexman8]

Thought I'd experiment with playlists again. Image 1 shows the folder layout on the Lexar USB stick. Image 2 shows the files in the album and image 3 the corresponding .m3u file contents. The playlists were created using sPlaylistMaker as in image 4 and everything plays as expected in the car.

Note that you should select 'No path' as the Path Type as Sensus will index the file locations itself. In this example the .m3u file is written in each folder. If you select 'Root folder(s) only' as the Write location along with 'No path' you get a warning that they may not play correctly. It produces a .m3u file as in image 5 where there are duplicate track numbers. I'll try this layout tomorrow and see whether Sensus makes sense of it (see what I did there?). I suspect it'll play correctly despite the warning which I guess is for playback devices which are dumb and cannot index the contents themselves.
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[Lexman8]

*Talking to myself*...

Putting the playlist file in a higher level folder or the root doesn't work. It has to be in the same folder as the tracks it's referring to. Guess Sensus isn't so clever after all.

[apnicolle]

Tried various options, programs, tags, xml editing...wasted many hours and gave up.
Now just use random or browse for a specific album. Or for the truely random experience I say some words at the voice control and see what it come up with...

[Jcbrown]

Originally Posted by apnicolle

Or for the truely random experience I say some words at the voice control and see what it come up with...

LOL - I had some great results when I told it to "go boil its f*****g head" when Sat Nav repeatedly got things wrong

[simmondp]

Cannot get playlists to work; tried all the suggestions (no leading slash), using backslash rather than forward slash etc.

XC90 MY2020 (2 days old) fails to recognise the existence of the playlists (in the root directory)

Anyone got this to work - if so can they post a sample playlist

Originally Posted by ukden

Collected new XC60 from dealer yesterday.

Very impressed with car (so far).

One problem I have not yet found a solution for, is using Playlists on a USB stick.
According to the manual, the system can access up to 100 Playlists with a maximum of 1000 files per playlist.

I have tried using a USB stick with approx 1500 mp3 files saved in album based folders. I have tried a .pls playlist and a .m3u playlist each with a selection of tunes from the various albums.
The car does not seem to recognise the playlists, they do not appear on the screen. I can however choose individual tracks, artists, etc.

Anyone any suggestions?