400GB music scanning speed too slow

[Stephen Amos]

Hi all,

I have a 1TB Samsung T7 Shield SSD connected in the glove box.

It has a 500GB Teslacam EXFAT partition and a 500gb EXFAT Music partition.

There's just under 100,000 mp3 files. Unfortunately my 40 minute drive that I do twice per day isn't long enough for it to complete scanning the music.

Does anyone have experience with higher volumes of mp3s? I think i'd be willing to use the centre console if it mounted the music faster, as the glovebox connection is no good in my use case.

Thoughts?

 

[ATPMSD]

There's just under 100,000 mp3 files. Unfortunately my 40 minute drive that I do twice per day isn't long enough for it to complete scanning the music.

Make sure you are using the Blue USB port as this is a USB 3.0 port

I would try checking the drive on your computer. Maybe it needs to be defragged or has bad sectors that need to be addressed.

In the end, 30,000 mp3 files may just be too much.

 

[ATPMSD]

Found this discussion:

Maximum Number of Audio Tracks on USB Drive

I realize there has already been a lot of discussion of the various shortfalls of playing music from a USB drive, but there's one issue I'm having that I haven't been able to find in a prior thread. I have about 400GB of music files --about 20,000 tracks (mostly FLACs from when I ripped my CD...

teslamotorsclub.com

 

[jjrandorin]

I think i'd be willing to use the centre console if it mounted the music faster, as the glovebox connection is no good in my use case.

Thoughts?

My first immediate thought is that you dont say what model year (plate) vehicle you have, but any car made after about november of 2021 will not have data ports in the center console as the car comes from the factory (meaning "I would be willing to use the centre console" wont work).

 

[Stephen Amos]

My first immediate thought is that you dont say what model year (plate) vehicle you have, but any car made after about november of 2021 will not have data ports in the center console as the car comes from the factory (meaning "I would be willing to use the centre console" wont work).

Sorry, I did intend to say it's a 2021 Tesla

Make sure you are using the Blue USB port as this is a USB 3.0 port

I would try checking the drive on your computer. Maybe it needs to be defragged or has bad sectors that need to be addressed.

In the end, 30,000 mp3 files may just be too much.

I believe there's only 1 port in the glovebox, no choice of a blue port. I guess it's USB 2.0 in there, but was hoping people on here might know.

The Samsung T7 Shield was minutes old when I formatted it and copied over the mp3s. I very much doubt it needs defragmenting, plus it's an SSD not mechanical so defragging doesn't bring any gain.

Likewise very unlikely to have bad sectors being brand new and never used before copying the music files.

It's not 30,000 files, it's more than triple that. But i'm inclined to agree it might be too much for it to handle. It's a shame the OS doesn't commit the scan results to a permanent table of contents file.

 

[Stephen Amos]

My first immediate thought is that you dont say what model year (plate) vehicle you have, but any car made after about november of 2021 will not have data ports in the center console as the car comes from the factory (meaning "I would be willing to use the centre console" wont work).

Sorry, I did intend to mention the year but totally forgot.

It's a 21 reg, ex lease so I suspect it has data in the centre console ports.