New XC60 Playlists

[S90]

I couldn't be arsed with any of that, just use my iPhone and Apple Music, create playlists in that and then just tell Siri what playlist to use. Pain free

[MaDProFF]

Why do people bother with USB media?

I just connect my phone up with BT and use play lists I have on my phone, also then I can use it to connect everything I want to listen music from.

Am I missing something using USB over BT

[paulod]

Originally Posted by MaDProFF

Why do people bother with USB media?

I just connect my phone up with BT and use play lists I have on my phone, also then I can use it to connect everything I want to listen music from.

Am I missing something using USB over BT

Only thing with usb is my music on there is higher quality than on my phone as I used the compressed version in itunes due to space restrictions on a previous model and I've never changed it back.
Also using bluetooth eats my battery - at least I think it does.

[Goodshot]

Originally Posted by MaDProFF

Why do people bother with USB media?

I just connect my phone up with BT and use play lists I have on my phone, also then I can use it to connect everything I want to listen music from.

Am I missing something using USB over BT

Because I have 30-40 albums I like a lot on a USB drive. Previous two cars -A8 and Evoque I just used to plug in the USB drive and downloaded them to the cars hdd and used their playlist, shuffle or jukebox facilities which met all my requirements. I don't have any music on my phone.

[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?

[simmondp]

After much playing, I can now export my iTunes playlists to a USB stick.

It is attached; simply format a USB stick as FAT32 and name it either "Volvo Music" or "Car Music" [This stops you accidentally overwriting another USB Drive]

And run the attached VBS script - the "status" window is a little Clunky" in VBS but seems to work fine.

If you need to have UNIX separators rather than DOS then you can start it with the switch UNIX. i.e. iTunesPlaylistExportToVolvo5.vbs UNIX

It also works for my wife's Ford Sync3.

Enjoy

[Badja]

Thanks Paul, used this with a 64gig Sandisk formatted in NTFS and it worked fine. Plugged in my '68 plate V60 and playlists tab showed up under the USB app, played fine, great stuff.

[DunDunFather]

I posted my solution using good old MS-DOS on THIS THREAD which worked fine on my 2019 S60.