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USB music showing up in search for ANYONE????

Discussion in 'Model S' started by sorka, Mar 2, 2021 at 3:48 PM.

  1. sorka

    sorka Well-Known Member

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    I know this sort of belongs in the user interface sub section but really wanted to widen the audience to folks who aren't looking for problems with USB music playback but may have them without realizing it.

    I just updated from v8.1 to v10.2. Yes I had the same software for 3 years but updating to MCU2 obviously resulted in me having to leave my beloved v8 behind :(

    USB music seems to be broken in all kinds of horrible ways that worked perfectly on v8. Just hoping that maybe there are work arounds for some of these issues.

    • Music on my USB drive no longer shows up in search which is a huge bummer which also means I can no longer use voice search to find USB music :(
    • Browsing music is now just a text list rather than the grid of artwork. A huge bummer when trying to find music while driving as now I have to read titles that are often clipped off to the right.
    • Music no longer groups by album in album view for about half my albums so if I have 20 songs in an album, I now have 20 top level alum entries. This was SAME usb thumb drive worked perfectly in this respect on v8.
    • No album artwork any more. Just the same placeholder image for everything. All my artwork is 300x300 PNGs. Does ANYONE have artwork displaying any more from their MP3s?
    • Navigating into any album and then back now always jumps to the top of the the album list.
    Any of this NOT broken for anyone? Any work arounds?
     
  2. galvatron

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    I know at some point in the last several months of updates I lost the Album Artwork. I had it before, but now it's gone. I keep hoping the next upgrade will bring it back, but so far still no go. I'm not sure about all the other functions you mentioned because I'm not that sophisticated in organizing/searching for music. I just want simple play from USB with album art and that for sure is gone. I have MCU2 and the latest 2021.4.11 software.
     
  3. Mediocrates

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    USB being excluded from search happened sometime in the past 6 months or so, I don't quite remember exactly when, but it was when they "improved" the search (and search results) functionality.

    Album art for USB MP3s has been broken for roughly the same time span.

    I've not found a way around either.
     
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  4. sorka

    sorka Well-Known Member

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    Anyone know where to file bugs online these days? The Contact | Tesla form now only has energy related categories.
     
  5. aesculus

    aesculus Still Trying to Figure This All Out

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    Did you make sure that there was only one artist (not Album artist) on the ID tags for each album? Tesla just does not understand Album Artists and every time there is a slight difference in artist it creates a new album. I had to create some dummy artist for a lot of my albums.
     
  6. sorka

    sorka Well-Known Member

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    Some albums are like that and v8.1 did create different multiple albums in that case. This is different. Most of the albums that have duplicate album entries have exactly the same artist.
     
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  7. X Fan

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    Agreed....I've used Music Tag Editor to ensure tags/artists/albums, etc. can be properly read for my multi-thousand song USB

    But...search is broken and I also think the sound quality has deteriorated significantly.
     

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