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For those who use the USB input to the Prado stereo, it has some issues. (ours is a 2016 GLX)
I have put a small USB hub in our console, and have 2 x 64 GB memory sticks in it - one with all our music and one with talking books (we do a lot of long drives). That way when you select source on the stereo, 2 USB icons come up and I can select music or books, rather than having them all mixed together.
However, the track order kept coming up as all jumbled if you select album. This is particularly annoying for talking books, as the chapters are all jumbled. If you select artist/album, they come up in the correct order. Stop the car and re-start it and the track resumes where it stopped, but the order is all jumbled again - unless you stop the track, find it by Album/artist, then re-start the track. PITA.
I made sure the tracks were names with 01-trackname, 02-trackname etc still no joy. Look in windows, order is all correct. Looked in the file metadata for clues but nothing.
So I spent some time researching why the talking book MP3s on the stereo are all jumbled up - harks back to DOS days, and the firmware that MP3 players use. Basically lists them by the date copied onto the memory stick - and Windows does not copy them in order, so you get a dog's breakfast of the hidden file copy date. And the issue is not uncommon - lots of car stereos have the problem, and even a circa 2010 Samsung mobile phone that I set up as an MP3 player jumbles the tracks.
But where there is a problem and the Internet you can find a solution. Basically the stereo sorts based on the dates the files are copied - and if you do a large copy and paste in Windows, it doesn't copy them in logical order. So after research I down loaded "DriveSort" from the web (free). And sure enough it showed the files in the same jumbled order as the stereo. But the program can then quickly sort all the tracks on the memory stick to the correct/logical order. Re-sort took about 5 minutes.
BTW I copied all the sorted files back onto my main server - but windows randomised them again. So the USB sticks are fine, car stereo is fine but I have to re-run DriveSort each time I add files (but it is quite easy/quick).
For the anal amongst us.
http://www.anerty.net/software/file/DriveSort/?lang=en
I have put a small USB hub in our console, and have 2 x 64 GB memory sticks in it - one with all our music and one with talking books (we do a lot of long drives). That way when you select source on the stereo, 2 USB icons come up and I can select music or books, rather than having them all mixed together.
However, the track order kept coming up as all jumbled if you select album. This is particularly annoying for talking books, as the chapters are all jumbled. If you select artist/album, they come up in the correct order. Stop the car and re-start it and the track resumes where it stopped, but the order is all jumbled again - unless you stop the track, find it by Album/artist, then re-start the track. PITA.
I made sure the tracks were names with 01-trackname, 02-trackname etc still no joy. Look in windows, order is all correct. Looked in the file metadata for clues but nothing.
So I spent some time researching why the talking book MP3s on the stereo are all jumbled up - harks back to DOS days, and the firmware that MP3 players use. Basically lists them by the date copied onto the memory stick - and Windows does not copy them in order, so you get a dog's breakfast of the hidden file copy date. And the issue is not uncommon - lots of car stereos have the problem, and even a circa 2010 Samsung mobile phone that I set up as an MP3 player jumbles the tracks.
But where there is a problem and the Internet you can find a solution. Basically the stereo sorts based on the dates the files are copied - and if you do a large copy and paste in Windows, it doesn't copy them in logical order. So after research I down loaded "DriveSort" from the web (free). And sure enough it showed the files in the same jumbled order as the stereo. But the program can then quickly sort all the tracks on the memory stick to the correct/logical order. Re-sort took about 5 minutes.
BTW I copied all the sorted files back onto my main server - but windows randomised them again. So the USB sticks are fine, car stereo is fine but I have to re-run DriveSort each time I add files (but it is quite easy/quick).
For the anal amongst us.
http://www.anerty.net/software/file/DriveSort/?lang=en