[eric_in_co]

It's consistently resuming for me now. The worst behavior of my car is now completely fixed. Awesome!

 

[299792458]

ugh, why am I still stuck on 2018.50.6 (?! -- sympathy is welcomed haha)

Any indication about the fix action containing:

1) if USB drive is not removed while awake, no indexing is performed after wakeup && USB audio becomes selected (?)
2) if audio file being played before sleep exists, continue playing said file (?) (regardless if USB drive contents have been updated)

 

[eric_in_co]

ugh, why am I still stuck on 2018.50.6 (?! -- sympathy is welcomed haha)

Any indication about the fix action containing:

1) if USB drive is not removed while awake, no indexing is performed after wakeup && USB audio becomes selected (?)
2) if audio file being played before sleep exists, continue playing said file (?) (regardless if USB drive contents have been updated)

Sympathy for your old version. Are you unable to connect to WiFi or cell signal? You should be on a more recent version if your car can connect. Otherwise, maybe something is wrong with your car and it needs to be serviced.

Both problems you mentioned were fixed for me in 2019.5.15

 

[299792458]

Sympathy for your old version. Are you unable to connect to WiFi or cell signal? You should be on a more recent version if your car can connect. Otherwise, maybe something is wrong with your car and it needs to be serviced.

Both problems you mentioned were fixed for me in 2019.5.15

Firmware needed to be pushed, and got it squared away by Tesla Virtual Service yesterday. Now running 2019.5.15, and I've not 'noticed' any reindexing. 😁

 

[OakTownGuy]

So I have a USB thumb drive with a bunch of music on it and recently noticed that a lot of songs aren't showing up when connected to my car. The drive its formatted to FAT32 and all the songs are .mp3 files. Am I doing something wrong or is this an existing issue. Sorry if it's a noob question that has been already addressed here.

Thanks for any help.

 

[TrevP]

Make sure your files are indeed MP3s and not just named .mp3 and also make sure you don't have any strange characters in the file names. The Tesla media player is notoriously slow to index USB drives if you have a lot of music on them and it tends to reindex them frequently resulting in frustrating delays in getting the USB stick to come up.

 

[EV Dr.]

Check the Files view. You will possibly see songs that don’t appear where you expect them in the Artist, Song and Album views.

 

[Bokonon]

I'm having a strange issue with the music partition on my USB drive. After updating to 2019.8.4, the index for the drive became corrupt when the car briefly lost connectivity to the USB drive while indexing. (I blame a sub-optimal USB splitter for that.) Most songs on the drive cannot be found (by artist, album, folder, etc), and those that can will not play ("USB Loading Error"). If I plug the drive into my PC, all of the songs are visible and playable, so I know the drive itself is not corrupt.

Does anyone know a way of forcing the car to re-index the drive?

Unplugging the drive and plugging it back in doesn't seem to do the trick... though I have not yet tried plugging in a different drive with music, letting it index, removing it, and then plugging the original drive back in.

 

[sduck]

Change something on your current drive, it should re-index it.

 

[Bokonon]

Change something on your current drive, it should re-index it.

You'd think that would do the trick, but no dice...... added a few new songs in new folders, and no change. The drive has 10.5 GB of music (~3000 MP3s), so you'd think it would re-index in just a few minutes, but I don't see any indication that it's even attempting to do that.

 

[Bokonon]

Okay, I've looked more into how USB audio indexing works.... skip to the bottom for the steps I followed to rebuild a corrupt index.

Indexing in the current firmware (2019.8.5 as I write this) seems to be differential. In other words, if you add new songs to the drive, they will be added to the index, if you remove them, they will be removed from the index, and if you change them they will be updated in the index... but the car will not re-index any songs that haven't changed.

Indexing is also specific to a drive. If you have USB drives A and B, the car will maintain a separate index for each drive. As a result, simply swapping one drive for another doesn't trigger a re-index. The index itself is not stored on the drive.

All of this is normally great, because it means that the car won't have to re-index the entire drive every time it gets mounted on startup, and USB audio is available almost immediately. However, if the index gets corrupted, then you're in a small pickle, because the only way to wipe out all of the missing/corrupt entries is to remove the underlying files and replace them. But you have to do this in two steps, so that the car sees that the drive is empty and has a chance to remove all songs from the existing index.

In my case, the steps I followed were:

1. Re-formatted the music drive (using the "quick format" option, which is equivalent to deleting all files and folders in one go)
2. Went out to the car and plugged the drive in.
3. Switched to USB Audio and waited until the car showed no songs, artists, albums, or folders on the drive (~15 seconds after it had finished reading the drive)
4. Removed the drive, plugged it back into my laptop, and copied all of my music back onto the drive.
5. Returned to the car, plugged the drive in, switched to USB Audio, and waited for the index to rebuild (~45 seconds).
6. Confirmed that all artists, albums, and songs were present and properly indexed.

 

[Blue Meanie]

I've noticed that compilation albums (more than one artist) show up not only under Artists for each song, but under Albums as well: so for a single compilation of 15 artists I'm seeing the album listed 15 separate times under the USB Album selection tab. I know that in iTunes I've tagged the album as a compilation of various artists but that doesn't appear to help the Tesla interface. Any ideas?

 

[FurryOne]

I've noticed that compilation albums (more than one artist) show up not only under Artists for each song, but under Albums as well...

Most likely the only way around this is to use a MetaData Editor to change each song to point to a Album that you create.

 

[GDN]

I just copied my iTunes music to the drive and also discovered a mess when I looked for albums or artists but the best thing I’ve discovered is the “Folders” at the bottom of the list. If you use Folders your albums that are compilations are all listed under “Compilations” so go to “C” to find them each in their own folder kind of like you’d expect them to be.

 

[sduck]

Yes, this is a problem with the current USB audio system. And one of the main things I complain to tesla about regularly - I hope and wish that they'll eventually fix this mess of ancient cobbled together code. The workaround is to use the Folder tab. But you still need to go into the files and edit the tags to have the track numbers in the title field, if you want them to play in the correct order.

 

[FurryOne]

Most likely the only way around this is to use a MetaData Editor to change each song to point to a Album that you create.

Well, I tried creating a folder/Album called RoadTunes, added 13 songs, changed their metadata - Album name and numbering, and while it shows and plays correctly under "Folders", I end up with 13 "RodeTunes" entries under "Album"

 

[GDN]

Well, I tried creating a folder/Album called RoadTunes, added 13 songs, changed their metadata - Album name and numbering, and while it shows and plays correctly under "Folders", I end up with 13 "RodeTunes" entries under "Album"

Yep - hence my comment above. Folders is the easiest way to make sense of it.

 

[PaulK]

Is anyone able to use AIFF files in the Model 3 with recent firmware?

 

[TheHairyOne]

40GB worth of music in my car on a 240GB SSD, lossless formats sound way better. Wish surround was supported. Wish favorite persisted after removing drive. Would be cool to have a playlist creator or supported format, vs. putting files in a forced alphabetic order in a folder. Anyone have better luck making playlists some other way?

 

[Charles Jutkins]

Trying to do a Music USB. and having no luck . I know there is power to the USB Ports in the console but I have
heard they dropped data for all ports except the glove box usb stick . I tried both exFat and Fat in the center console.
They just don't work. I have heard that you need to get a bigger glove box stick or drive then partition it into a Music and Video Volume . Can anybody confirm.