Hi all, I seem to remember a while ago that we had a discussion in a thread about transferring music to the SD card to use as media in the infotainment system.
Playlists were mentioned, but adding them can be a bit daunting if you don't feel that confident around a PC keyboard.
I thought I would try and write a fairly easy to follow explanation as to how I did this.
I will add at this point that I use iTunes on my PC, but if you don't, the method will be quite similar.
Now I don't profess to be an expert on the PC, far from it, and others may use a different method, but this worked for me, so here goes.
OK so this is what I did to get all my music on the SD card with all my playlists.
My music on my PC is all stored in a folder called D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music.
I basically copied all the contents of this folder to the root of the SD card. So the SD card basically then contains folders for each artist that in turn contain folders for each album and so on.
Then in iTunes, I went to my playlists and export them out as individual .M3U files
File > Library > Export Playlist.
If you then open the files in a text editor like Notepad, you will see that it is essentially just paths to each music file in the playlist.
You then need to edit the path to remove the start of it so that the files can be found on the SD card.
For example:
D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music\Dire Straits\On Every Street\Calling Elvis.m4a
This needs to be:
Dire Straits\On Every Street\Calling Elvis.m4a
To save having to do each line manually I do an edit\search and replace ("D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music\ ). Leave the "Replace with" field blank.
The beauty is that this text is common to all of the .M3U files, so you can copy it to the clipboard using "Ctrl C" and paste it into the "Search and Replace" field with "Ctrl V". This saves a great deal of time.
Then save the playlist files and copy them to the root of the SD card.
Works a treat
Hopefully you'll find it works OK for you too
Steve
Playlists were mentioned, but adding them can be a bit daunting if you don't feel that confident around a PC keyboard.
I thought I would try and write a fairly easy to follow explanation as to how I did this.
I will add at this point that I use iTunes on my PC, but if you don't, the method will be quite similar.
Now I don't profess to be an expert on the PC, far from it, and others may use a different method, but this worked for me, so here goes.
OK so this is what I did to get all my music on the SD card with all my playlists.
My music on my PC is all stored in a folder called D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music.
I basically copied all the contents of this folder to the root of the SD card. So the SD card basically then contains folders for each artist that in turn contain folders for each album and so on.
Then in iTunes, I went to my playlists and export them out as individual .M3U files
File > Library > Export Playlist.
If you then open the files in a text editor like Notepad, you will see that it is essentially just paths to each music file in the playlist.
You then need to edit the path to remove the start of it so that the files can be found on the SD card.
For example:
D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music\Dire Straits\On Every Street\Calling Elvis.m4a
This needs to be:
Dire Straits\On Every Street\Calling Elvis.m4a
To save having to do each line manually I do an edit\search and replace ("D:\Music\iTunes Media\Music\ ). Leave the "Replace with" field blank.
The beauty is that this text is common to all of the .M3U files, so you can copy it to the clipboard using "Ctrl C" and paste it into the "Search and Replace" field with "Ctrl V". This saves a great deal of time.
Then save the playlist files and copy them to the root of the SD card.
Works a treat
Hopefully you'll find it works OK for you too
Steve