How to format usb drive for car
- #HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR HOW TO#
- #HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR TRIAL#
- #HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR WINDOWS#
#HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR HOW TO#
When I plug the thumb drive back into my computer, a new System Volume Information directory is created for this album as you warned.Īny other suggestions on how to see the artwork? By the way, I only have the 6" display screen, but I presume that should not prevent artwork from displaying and satelite radio artwork displays perfectly on this screen. If I delete the System Volume Information directory from the thumb drive, I can see it disappear, but playing the thumb drive still provides no artwork. jpg files all of which are artwork but in different resolutions. If I re-format the thumb drive as exFAT and then copy, the album plays correctly but no artwork is displayed. When I copy that album to a thumb drive formatted as FAT32, nothing plays in the car. I am also struggling with no USB artwork display (2018 M240i). What I can say for sure is, now that I have reformatted my USB drive and making sure I used FAT32, and deleted that SVI directory, my album art no longer disappears when I turn off/on the car. I am going to guess it had something to do with the USB formatting, and/or the existence of that system volume information directory (but can't say for sure). Sometimes, you have to reboot the head unit to get it to reappear. Sometimes, you can just change mode (FM, Sat, CD) and the art will reappear other times that won't work, or you have to do it multiple times. Sometimes, the album art would appear when the very next song started but not always. I found that any time I (and others) turn the car off (where I would see album art) and then restart, 50/50 chance the album art does not reappear. Lots of folks post about this issue - this forum & other model's forums so it's out there. Number of songs in directory can affect indexing. I can even pull drive and put back in and music will start where I left off. Not sure how exiting the car would affect.
#HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR WINDOWS#
NOTE: every time you insert your USB stick into your computer, Windows will add that folder (you can edit the registry to prevent that) and you will have to delete it each time. iDrive even retains the art on those CDs now! And many of my CDs are so old there is no album art - I had to save an image from google or amazon, and add artwork via iTunes. Sure enough, I deleted that folder & voila - my entire library showed up in iDrive (aftter iDrive read the USB stick) & I've not lost album art after shutting off the car since. You have to do it from the CMD prompt.ġ) Type CMD in the Windows search box & run as administrator.Ģ) Change the directory to whatever Windows shows as your USB stick (mine is Fģ) Type the following after your drive label (e.g.: F:\) exactly as shown, no space before the "rmdir":Ĥ) Then eject the USB stick & remove it from your computer. If you see that folder - delete it.īUT Windows will not allow you to delete it using Explorer. And also look for a system folder, "System Volume Information". Several posts in Windows forums said to look for particular Windows system files (extension. If it's not, you'll need to reformat it to FAT32.Īfter reformatting, I copied my iTunes library back to the USB stick.īut, iDrive would only see either the first album or the last - even though my entire library was on the drive, and even after driving around or leaving the car on for a while. Just make sure your USB drive is FAT32 (not NTFS, or FATEX). Windows 10 does not have an option to format FAT32. I will be curious to know if anyone else experiencing the disappearing album art, or missing, newly added music resolves these issues with this fix.įirst, I reformatted my USB drive using a 3rd party application that would format to FAT32 (iDrive only reads FAT32). But since doing this, I can now see my entire music library in iDrive - all 6.543 songs - and I've not lost album art once after shutting off the car. I don't know which step or steps fixed it all. (Where you have to reboot the head unit, change mode or just wait for songs to cycle for album art to come back.) I can't tell you what step - if any - fixed these issues, but I can tell you after doing this, I can see my entire library & I no longer lose album art after turning off the car. And, my previous post about a fix didn't work in the long run.īUT - after lots of searching in Windows & BMW forums, this time, I think I've found the right fix! I've seen a lot of posts about issues with music & album art in iDrive when using USB drives, so I know I am not alone in my frustration.
#HOW TO FORMAT USB DRIVE FOR CAR TRIAL#
But, as I found out from all of this trial & error, iDrive didn't always "see" newly added music. Every time I added a new album to iTunes, I would add it the USB drive. iTunes shows over 6500 songs iDrive only shows 5300. The music on my USB drive is copied from my iTunes library. I finally got fed up with new music not showing up in iDrive after adding it to my USB stick, and the constantly-disappearing album art every time I turned off the car.