Pegojack
Roger Freestone
I bought a new Skoda Elroq 100% electric car in January. I'm very pleased with it but I have one minor irritating problem which I'm hoping one of our highly knowledgeable posters will be able to solve for me.
My pre-recorded music is precious to me, I listen to it all the time in the car. I have downloaded hundreds of CD albums and streamed music selections, and in my previous car, a Skoda Octavia, I played it via a standard 'A' plug USB memory stick plugged into the socket in the fascia. This worked fine, the music list would be displayed exactly as it was on the stick and I was able to make selections without problems.
The Elroq only has the new 'C' type sockets to take USB sticks, so I bought a new, high capacity, dual headed one with a 'C' plug and 'A' plug and I copied over my entire music catalogue using my desktop computer to make the transfer.
Now the music on the stick is all nicely ordered into folders representing each album or compilation of singles I've made up, in an alphabetical list by artist. Fine, except when I plug it into a 'C' socket on the Elroq lower fascia and look on the infotainment screen to play it, my neat list is nowhere to be seen. There is a source dropdown menu on the screen, but no USB stick on it, only a label 'my media'. The car is reading the stick, because it offers me a choice of artist or album, however it has chewed up my nice neat folders and presents a complete mish mash of music in no particular order at all. it doesn't recognise about a quarter of the albums and lists them as 'unknown album', so the only way you can find out what they are is to play a track or two to identify them. It splits up all the compilations into their constituent tracks and scatters them throughout the artist or album categories. In short, it's a mess and a bit of a distraction when I should be keeping my eyes on the road. The format of the stick is exFAT, if that means anything to the tekkies out there. Someone on an internet forum suggested changing all the tracks to MP3 format and I tried a few, but with no noticeable difference. Does anyone have a solution? It's driving me crazy!
My pre-recorded music is precious to me, I listen to it all the time in the car. I have downloaded hundreds of CD albums and streamed music selections, and in my previous car, a Skoda Octavia, I played it via a standard 'A' plug USB memory stick plugged into the socket in the fascia. This worked fine, the music list would be displayed exactly as it was on the stick and I was able to make selections without problems.
The Elroq only has the new 'C' type sockets to take USB sticks, so I bought a new, high capacity, dual headed one with a 'C' plug and 'A' plug and I copied over my entire music catalogue using my desktop computer to make the transfer.
Now the music on the stick is all nicely ordered into folders representing each album or compilation of singles I've made up, in an alphabetical list by artist. Fine, except when I plug it into a 'C' socket on the Elroq lower fascia and look on the infotainment screen to play it, my neat list is nowhere to be seen. There is a source dropdown menu on the screen, but no USB stick on it, only a label 'my media'. The car is reading the stick, because it offers me a choice of artist or album, however it has chewed up my nice neat folders and presents a complete mish mash of music in no particular order at all. it doesn't recognise about a quarter of the albums and lists them as 'unknown album', so the only way you can find out what they are is to play a track or two to identify them. It splits up all the compilations into their constituent tracks and scatters them throughout the artist or album categories. In short, it's a mess and a bit of a distraction when I should be keeping my eyes on the road. The format of the stick is exFAT, if that means anything to the tekkies out there. Someone on an internet forum suggested changing all the tracks to MP3 format and I tried a few, but with no noticeable difference. Does anyone have a solution? It's driving me crazy!
