Hey guys,

I have had problems with purchasing and now burning discs for upload to sync. The discs often show as UNKNOWN ARTIST and UNKNOWN SONG on my sync system. The same disc loaded in my computer shows artist and song track. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot????

Have any of you had this difficulty and do you know a fix???

 

Unfortunately it's the sync disc reading system. I even have new CDS that read unknown artist and track names. You have to input them manually which is a PITA.

 

So... you can input the artist and track manually??? If you don't mind, clue a techless dork in.

 

Yes. Go to your juke box. Go to SETTINGS. Edit library, then go to the artist it would be scanned in unknown artist. You only have to edit the entire artist and the cd name just once, but each track your going to have to do one at a time.

 

YOU DA MAN!!! Thanks for the intel. Sounds time consuming but ultimately beneficial....

 

No problem man. Very time consuming indeed.

 

Just a suggestion, Eric. You could skip CD's altogether and copy MP3's to a flash drive. I've found it to be very convenient. I've got about 5000 songs on a flash drive and haven't brought a CD into the car yet.

 

Exactly what I do. Especially since I don't buy CDs anymore unless I really like the artist.

 

Exactly what I do as well. You can use your PC to make sure the MP3 has the correct artist/album/track title/etc.

Oh and don't forget about "genre" also. That way you can just tell SYNC "Play Genre Hard Rock" or whatever whenever you want to skip to a certain type of music.

I was so happy to get a HDD with the Nav package, but since you can't rip MP3 from CD I just purchased a microSD card and put it on a USB adapter, it's super tiny and doesn't interfere with the storage in the armrest.

 

This is the only way u can do it which would require you to buy a SD card so that sync can detect it, if you use a plain ol storage stick it wont work.

 

Not true. plenty of people who have used flash drives or portable hard drives loaded with tunes and sync indexes it all just fine.

 

I use a flash drive with no problems. the only trick is to make sure that the artist and song title info is populated in the "file details" synch doesn't care about the MP3 file name, it's the metadata it goes by (the additional details like 'song' 'artist' 'genre'.

I purchased a 16 gig flash drive that is very small and doesn't interfere with storage

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041Q38SA

that thing easily holds thousands of songs.

 

I actually use a portable laptop hard drive. The one i use is a 40 gigabyte drive that i have formatted in Fat 32, Fat 32 has a limitation of 32 gigabytes. Got it out of a junked PS3 and bought a 10 dollar case for it. But it has to be formatted as Fat 32 if you have a USB flash drive that isnt working it may not be formatted correctly. I rip all songs to my laptop and then drag and drop them onto the drive. I also created playlists in windows media player using the drive and then saved the playlist on the root directory and voila, playlists work like a charm. But my Sync doesnt have the hard drive built in, but i assume you can transfer songs and such from a portable drive to the built in drive.

 

Actually fat32 only has a file size limitation of 4gb. Maximum volume size is limited by cluster size, but is usually limited at 2tb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

 

If only that was true, it would make life so much easier.
The only way I've found to put songs on the built in HDD is by ripping them from a CD or CDR. Can't copy from a portable drive or USB stick, and can't rip from a CD with MP3 files.

Ripping from a standard CD (12-24 track at most on each CD) would take forever, so I just use a microSD card mounted in a USB adpater.

 

Yes. But this is actually what i was referring to. Its a limitation in windows for creating a Fat32 partition.
"The Windows 2000/XP installation program and filesystem creation tool imposes a limitation of 32 GiB.[18] However, both systems can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size. This limitation is by design and according to Microsoft was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient.[13][19] This limitation can be bypassed by using third-party formatting utilities"

I have never tried it on a portable hard drive with the Sync system but i have heard of people using 3rd party software to create a partition as large as 250gb for their Mustangs. But for just the regular computer user 32 gigabytes is as big as its going to get. I have used 3rd party software to partition an 80 gigabyte drive to be used with a Pioneer deck with the USB and it wouldnt read it. Took the same drive and created a 32 gigabyte partition and it read it just fine.

 

So are you saying that you dont use the built in HDD at all? If thats the case im glad i didnt pay for that upgrade on my car. I actually took my portable drive which was hooked up to the aftermarket radio in my wifes Durango with me on the test drive. I told the sales person that if the drive didnt work it would be a deal breaker. I was kidding of course. But it definitely would have bummed me out. But it worked like a charm, it wouldnt play all the songs immediately since Sync had to import the names and file info but it pretty much worked flawlessly after about 30 minutes.

 

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I have a 2tb hard drive formatted to fat32 for use with my xbox 360and it works just fine loading and unloading movies via USB. Additionally, I know people who have 250gb drives as fat32 and sync reads them without issue, one of them being a 2010 mustang gt premium.

EDIT: were actually saying the same thing. Windows won't natively do it, but 3rd party software does it without issue. Although I'm fairly certain I did it natively in windows 7.

 

Yes we are. I didnt mean for it to seem like a debate LOL. I have never tried in Windows 7 to format a drive with Fat32. I believe i was still on Vista when i did the hard drive i am using now. Interesting to see. Not like i need that size of a drive though. Im only using about 16 gb of the 32gb I have right now. But its good to know for future reference!