Make sure your phone and your head unit doesn't have the random toggle turned on.

 

Bottom line is Nanos and older Touches worked on the Boom 6.5 but not on GTS for whatever reason. Hoping this is fixed by a Boom update but not holding my breath.

 

Yeah that really is jacked up as those are some of the more reliable, user friendly and clean sources going.

T

 

I use the same usb thumb drive on both my 14CVO ultra and my 19 RGU my play lists work fine. The program that I used to make the play lists is Playlist Creator 3.6.2 there are a few catches but it does work. The one thing I do remember from when I set it up is that everything HAS to be in the ROOT directory If you have a problem search on here for Boom audio play lists or infortainment system play lists I am pretty sure I found it on here back in 14 or 15.

 

Here are the steps I took:

1) I formated the exFat 64GB USB dongle I purchased for this project to a 64GB Fat32 device using Guiformat application linked in the original post.
2) Copied my entire music collection (organized by artist/album in folders) to a USB dongle.
3) Went through each artist folder and eliminated each song I did not want to ever hear while out riding. This in the end left me with only the MP3's I wanted sitting in the folder of the artist's name.
4) I then created folders by genre. Rock, Country, ect. I then moved each artist folder to the genre folder that I felt best matched the artist. (harder than I thought). Then I placed these genre folders of each artist's folders into a Music folder.
5) Went from 24k total songs to 5k wanted songs by 236 artists located in 11 genre folders located in 1 music folder. Music>>Genre>>Artist>>Song.mp3
6) This level of music folder file organization took 98% of the entire time to create the drive. Using Playlist Creator 3.6.2 to create the M3U playlist was a snap from here.
7) Launch Playlist Creator 3.6.2 and set the playlist entries to Absolute
8) Then from the home screen click on the folder icon with the + along the right side. Navigate to one of the genre folders and hit OK. This loads up each song within each artist folder in the genre folder into Playlist Creator.
9) Set the folder you want the playlist file to go in.
10) Set the the playlist type to M3U
11) Click create playlist.
12) Install and enjoy.

** NOTE ** When I installed the drive and turned it on the music began promptly but the playlist showed warning triangles. This will go away once all the reading of the drive is finished. 5k songs takes about a minute. You will have to exit the playlist and re-enter the playlists once the reading of it is complete and you will see the genre's listed as expected without the warning. The warning triangles I imagine is warning you of broken links and there are many broken links until the entire drive is read completely.

 

Thanks for the great info 14cvoultra! It sounds like a lot of work, but since the weather has turned to crap here in the northeast, it is a good time to work on a project like this. I do have a few questions though.
1. How hard is it to add new music to playlist once they are made? My music library, like most peoples, is constantly growing. A song here, and album there. Will I have to create a list all over again, or is it as easy as drag and drop?
2. When it is playing the loaded playlist, do you have the ability to put it on shuffle/random, or will it only play the way the playlist is ordered?
3. Are you able to set the playlists to a Favorite number on your quick selects? That would make changing from one list to another a breeze.
4. I'm sure you can, but just want to make sure... you can still skip tracks, right? I mainly ask because your basically loading a single M3U file that tells the unit the location of the files to play, not hundreds or thousands of songs in an alphabetical or random order.

 

1, I don't remember if I have added songs to and existing play list But I have added more play lists to the drive.
2, yes
3, If I remember correctly if you save a song in a playlist as a favorite it then will play the rest of that play list .
4, If set to shuffle and u advance the song with the left joystick it will play a random song if not set to shuffle it will play next in the list.

 

I will have to give this a try. Sounds like my best hope for the results I'm looking for. Thanks 14cvoultra.

 

Thank you again 14cvoultra! It took a lot of time to re-organize and sort my music into the folder grouping, but got it all narrowed down to 48GB and 12 different playlist using Playlist Creator 3.whatever version number (more will be created later if I feel the need). It takes a little time to load/index, but i should have to deal with that very often since i dont have to change drives to change music. Thank you. We ever meet, I owe you a couple beers!

 

Very good glad to see you have it working
anything worth a **** takes a little work.
Have fun and ride safe.