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My car radio is completely unusable. I had it for 2 years and never figured out how to tell it to just play everything on the usb. Instead it groups by artist o

by LtWorf 4y ago

My car radio is completely unusable. I had it for 2 years and never figured out how to tell it to just play everything on the usb. Instead it groups by artist or genre and only plays that. Eventually the usb port just stopped working so I use VLC on the phone and stream to the car via bluetooth.

Cthulhu_ 4y ago
This has been an issue for car radios playing digital media ever since it became available though.
mannykannot 4y ago
Bluetooth in cars is often itself a shitshow, however. You are lucky it does not replicate all the anti-usability features of the USB interface. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131
Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
I wish I knew what the designers/engineers were thinking when they created the ability to play music from a USB drive. It feels like their target audience is not the type of person that would put music on a USB drive for the car. I just want it to recognize that I sort my music into folders and show the folder hierarchy. Instead, in my last car, it would flatten the entire structure and then sort by filename. To top off the shitshow, it would also only show up to 99 files, and scrolling through the list was painful. Each tap on the scroll button would only move one line, not one page, so if I wanted to play the 80th song, I'd have to tap to scroll 80 times.
- heleninboodler 4y ago
  What kind of a monster has more than 99 songs?
m463 4y ago
so you have a tesla too? seriously though, the USB audio player is a dumpster fire. They completely redid it with the last update -- and it got worse, not better. some random examples off the top of my head: - switch to another input source and you lose your audiobook position - sorting is completely utterly broken - audiobook has no skip-back-a-little function - soooo many bugs The only nice things I could say is that it mounts linux filesystems plus it plays FLAC and Apple lossless directly.

by LtWorf 4y ago

Cthulhu_ 4y ago

This has been an issue for car radios playing digital media ever since it became available though.

mannykannot 4y ago

Bluetooth in cars is often itself a shitshow, however. You are lucky it does not replicate all the anti-usability features of the USB interface. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago

I wish I knew what the designers/engineers were thinking when they created the ability to play music from a USB drive. It feels like their target audience is not the type of person that would put music on a USB drive for the car. I just want it to recognize that I sort my music into folders and show the folder hierarchy. Instead, in my last car, it would flatten the entire structure and then sort by filename. To top off the shitshow, it would also only show up to 99 files, and scrolling through the list was painful. Each tap on the scroll button would only move one line, not one page, so if I wanted to play the 80th song, I'd have to tap to scroll 80 times.

heleninboodler 4y ago
What kind of a monster has more than 99 songs?

m463 4y ago

so you have a tesla too? seriously though, the USB audio player is a dumpster fire. They completely redid it with the last update -- and it got worse, not better. some random examples off the top of my head: - switch to another input source and you lose your audiobook position - sorting is completely utterly broken - audiobook has no skip-back-a-little function - soooo many bugs The only nice things I could say is that it mounts linux filesystems plus it plays FLAC and Apple lossless directly.