Connecting a USB-A stick or drive to the infotainment screen

[ebp3]

The fatsort tool that lewma pointed me towards above does work, but it’s not for the tech faint of heart. It’s a command line tool that taxed a decade+ unused part of my brain that actually once knew how to use UNIX.

For now, I was able to get the USB to show up in the grenadier and browse folders and all the files were in the order of their file names. Fat32 256gb thumb drive with .WAV files in separate folders for each album. All files included the track number and should be alphabetically sortable as such. It did not, as far as I can tell, read any metadata in the files and as you and others have said it simply reads the files in the order they were written into the directories. If I understand it correctly, the fatsort tool simply rewrites the order of the files in the fat32 directory system. Voila bobs your uncle you now have a grenadier reading the files in the intended alphabetical order.

Until there is a software update that can address the way the filesystem is read, or even can scan metadata (such as ID3 tags) within the files themselves, I see no other solution.

There was an app version of fatsort but I felt like a challenge. No surprise since I’m the kind of guy who buys a grenadier fully aware of it’s idiosyncrasies

 

[MartinK]

I have taken the USB stick from my last car, but yet to pop it into the Grenadier.
Once I have, the next challenge will be trying to stop the Mrs putting every bloody song taylor swift has even recorded and ruining my playlists with taylor bloody swift

 

[Blackwolf]

Interesting. Fatsort did nothing to make mine work predictably.

 

[smbennett]

I use SDSorter for my digital audio player running Rockbox (https://www.trustfm.net/software/utilities/SDSorter.php) with my truck. It supposedly works with any removable USB drive, but I use it primarily for the SD card in the DAP. Pretty straightforward to use, so might work better for those with USB sticks ? It runs a bit slow, so if it looks like it hangs up on a file - be patient.