Too Much Music: My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off...

Moose Loc: North Carolina

My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off and can't select music. Its a scroll through process. As you know the USB thumb drive and SD cards can hold a lot of music, but getting to the music you want to hear is a pain. Anyone have a solution to making this easier?

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

Get a Cadillac. Finding a particular song isn't any easier but the driving while you're waiting is a lot more pleasant.

MJAbe Loc: Wisconsin

Not sure if you can do it with the flash drive but our vehicle has a built in Hard drive and we are able to store and search music by folders.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Moose wrote:

My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off and can't select music. Its a scroll through process. As you know the USB thumb drive and SD cards can hold a lot of music, but getting to the music you want to hear is a pain. Anyone have a solution to making this easier?

I use my desktop and put together "albums" of songs I like by type or some other criteria and then I burn them to a music CD with appropriate title and keep 10-15 of them in the car all the time.

niteman3d Loc: South Central Pennsylvania, USA

Moose wrote:

My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off and can't select music. Its a scroll through process. As you know the USB thumb drive and SD cards can hold a lot of music, but getting to the music you want to hear is a pain. Anyone have a solution to making this easier?

Put it on another device (tablet, phone?) which you use as your tuner then plugged into USB or connected via Bluetooth to the car radio which becomes the amp and speakers of your component system?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I have the music on my iPhone. It connects to the car via Bluetooth. It's easy to find what I want on the phone and start it playing.

If I stop, turn off the car for a short period of time, it starts right where I left off. If I leave it off for a few hours, it starts at the beginning of the piece I was last playing.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

And if your car doesn’t have Bluetooth, it may have an auxiliary 1/8” jack in either the glove box or center console which will allow you to attach either a phone, IPod type device or a tablet for music.

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

Moose wrote:

My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off and can't select music. Its a scroll through process. As you know the USB thumb drive and SD cards can hold a lot of music, but getting to the music you want to hear is a pain. Anyone have a solution to making this easier?

My guess is there is an advantage to small drives. One has a tendency to not over load them making what you want to find next to impossible. Sometimes more is not better.

DAN Phillips Loc: Graysville, GA

Amen to that. Nothing, nothing rides like a Cadillac!

I drove Cadillacs ambulance and hearses since i was 16 years old.

I bought my first personal one in '94, You will not find a better automobile made by any company in the world!

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

I have a 2017 Hyundai and store my music on a flash drive. You can select the songs alphabetically, select by artist, select by album - whatever. Can't be any easier. Or you can just play it from the start and cycle through. When you turn it off, it goes right back to where you left off and continues no matter what mode you're in. Even if you remove the flash drive it will go right back, as long as you don't record anything new on it. But even then, if you know where you were it's easy to get back.

RGreenway Loc: Morristown, New Jersey

Tesla also has a great user interface, you can search for a song, artist, album or genre, and play albums or songs you want. I have a 1TB drive with more than 10,000 tracks, my entire music library and it works great!

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

RGreenway wrote:

Tesla also has a great user interface, you can search for a song, artist, album or genre, and play albums or songs you want. I have a 1TB drive with more than 10,000 tracks, my entire music library and it works great!

Just a stupid question. What happens when you or the Cadillac owner sells the car?

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

paulrph1 wrote:

Just a stupid question. What happens when you or the Cadillac owner sells the car?

Well, I guess you either erase the drive (if it goes with the car), or you just let the buyer have the music.
I don't mind sharing.

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

My Honda Pilot has a DVD, CD, USB, BLUETOOTH, AM 1 and 2, FM 1 and 2, Satellite radio and a hard drive that controls song selections...... with today’s new cars there is no room for boredom.....

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Moose wrote:

My son has a car that has multiple music options including a USB drive and SD drive. The big problem with these drives is that you can't return to where you left off and can't select music. Its a scroll through process. As you know the USB thumb drive and SD cards can hold a lot of music, but getting to the music you want to hear is a pain. Anyone have a solution to making this easier?

I have used Flash drives since my Honda Accord had a USB port (2009 I think had one). I download music from Youtube and rip my CD's. Then I use Windows and a few other programs to create folders of particular artists or create a potpourri of tunes/artists. I then copy those folders to a flash drive and use in my car. My car music player has options of random selecting tunes in a folder or randomly selecting folders. I always have choices of music. I have 300,000+ mp3 files on my computer to select from. My favorites are jazz, classical and some older pop and rock.
My wife enjoys country, but it is not my favorite, so she has her own flash drive(s). We have two USB port so her flash drive is in one of the ports and mine in the other.

Mark