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I thought I'd share a tip on how to get all your iTunes library and purchased music to play on a jump drive through the usb port on our cars and get "playlists" on the usb drive as well. I have a base radio but I'm sure this covers the premium models as well. If all this was covered I did not see any thread on this so sorry if this is a repeat.
First you need to convert everything to a mp3 format. This will help save space and SYNC does not recognize most music formats that I've found. To do this you need to go to file > Convert > mp3. If mp3 is not an option you need to do this in the settings or preferences.
Also something else I did within iTunes was change the genre of the songs. Through SYNC, at least on the base models, when you try to play similar songs it seems like it only chooses songs within the genre. So I made sure certain artists had the exact same genre listed on it. Not sure if "Hip-Hop/Rap" and "Hip Hop/Rap" would mix the songs if you play similar music to an artist because of the damn hyphen. And some songs were labeled weird or off from how I would classify the songs.
To get around not being able to create playlists if you put songs into a folder on the usb you can access these folders from the radio. If you have the base model you can access this under browse usb. I just created playlists in iTunes and dragged the songs from that playlist over to the folders I created on the usb (ex: rock, classic rock, Kenny G, etc..)
If you have music purchased through iTunes that will not convert and they are in AAC file format you will need to either burn these to a disc then transfer them back to iTunes or get a file converting software. Some music purchased through iTunes before 2013 (i think) have DRM and cannot be converted through iTunes. This sucked because I had a lot.
Another thing I did was create a separate library on iTunes so it's easier to manage. Since I didn't want to have duplicate songs when I converted the music to mp3, I took these out of my main library and put them into the one for the Mustang.
What you need to do is sign out of iTunes. Close the application. Then on a Mac click and hold option/alt and while opening back iTunes and it will bring up a dialog to either open an existing library or create a new one. Choose create new. You can always go back to your old library by repeating these steps and choosing existing library.
Hope this helps for some people.
First you need to convert everything to a mp3 format. This will help save space and SYNC does not recognize most music formats that I've found. To do this you need to go to file > Convert > mp3. If mp3 is not an option you need to do this in the settings or preferences.
Also something else I did within iTunes was change the genre of the songs. Through SYNC, at least on the base models, when you try to play similar songs it seems like it only chooses songs within the genre. So I made sure certain artists had the exact same genre listed on it. Not sure if "Hip-Hop/Rap" and "Hip Hop/Rap" would mix the songs if you play similar music to an artist because of the damn hyphen. And some songs were labeled weird or off from how I would classify the songs.
To get around not being able to create playlists if you put songs into a folder on the usb you can access these folders from the radio. If you have the base model you can access this under browse usb. I just created playlists in iTunes and dragged the songs from that playlist over to the folders I created on the usb (ex: rock, classic rock, Kenny G, etc..)
If you have music purchased through iTunes that will not convert and they are in AAC file format you will need to either burn these to a disc then transfer them back to iTunes or get a file converting software. Some music purchased through iTunes before 2013 (i think) have DRM and cannot be converted through iTunes. This sucked because I had a lot.
Another thing I did was create a separate library on iTunes so it's easier to manage. Since I didn't want to have duplicate songs when I converted the music to mp3, I took these out of my main library and put them into the one for the Mustang.
What you need to do is sign out of iTunes. Close the application. Then on a Mac click and hold option/alt and while opening back iTunes and it will bring up a dialog to either open an existing library or create a new one. Choose create new. You can always go back to your old library by repeating these steps and choosing existing library.
Hope this helps for some people.
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