How to transfer music from albums to a SD card

why is this in the Tow Vehicles Forum?

sch911 wrote:
The directory structure should be setup as follows:

Root > Artist Name > Album Name > Songs.mp3

You can have more than one Album folder in an Artist folder.

You can have as many folders / songs as the SD card can hold.

This is the correct answer. Find a good CD-ripping program that will look each CD up in one of the on-line music databases such as Gracenote. I use WinAmp (which is a discontinued product), but I believe Windows Media Player will do the same thing for you. Set up properly, the ripping software will download the metadata, create folders and subfolders as described above, and place all your music in the proper folders with the tagged data. I have thousands of songs and hundreds of "albums" on one USB memory stick. Make sure you rip to a format that your vehicle's sound system can recognize (such as a standard MP3).

The tech corner would probably have been a better place to post this...

Rob

Can you stream the music from your ipod or phone with bluetooth.

The directory structure should be setup as follows:

Root > Artist Name > Album Name > Songs.mp3

You can have more than one Album folder in an Artist folder.

You can have as many folders / songs as the SD card can hold.

Create folders with the album name and copy only those songs to each folder. I only have the uConnect 3.0 and do not have the SD slot - Are you sure the SD slot is not exclusively for radio programming? I have used a USB stick inside the center console and it is protected from being knocked out. You can also use a USB extension cable if the USB connector is in an inconvenient location.

Ideally you need to tag your audio files with metadata the allows them to be grouped by album, artist, etc. Start here:
http://lifehacker.com/the-best-apps-for-automatically-cleaning-up-your-music-1561265062

mtofell1 wrote:
I think you may have to just use a separate SD card for each album. You can get the cards for SUPER cheap on Ebay or even at Walmart. I don't think there's a way to stop the Uconnect system from just blending everything on the same stick together but I've never tried. I kind of like shuffle feature.

The Uconnect system is not the problem. The blending occurs when the albums are copied.

A few albums have copied correctly and they play properly in the Uconnect radio. The problem is the many albums that do not copy correctly.

I think you may have to just use a separate SD card for each album. You can get the cards for SUPER cheap on Ebay or even at Walmart. I don't think there's a way to stop the Uconnect system from just blending everything on the same stick together but I've never tried. I kind of like shuffle feature.