MMITunes: Create playlists for your Audi MMI/RNS-E on the Mac
Comments(41) I have an iPod Classic connected to the Audi Music Interface (AMI) in my car to listen to music over the Audi multimedia system MMI 3G. The iPod is able to store a vast collection of music but sometimes I just want to listen to the tracks I recently downloaded in the iTunes music store without having to walk down to the garage, disconnecting the iPod, sync it on my Mac and so on. I just want to drag ‘n drop a few dozen audio tracks from iTunes to an SD-card and insert the card into the MMI’s SD-card slot when I get to the car the next time.
Now, the problem is that there are no playlists on the SD-card and thus the tracks are played in the order the MMI finds them on the card. This is where MMITunes comes into play. MMITunes is a small tool that creates playlists for all audio tracks it finds on a SD-card. It even creates multiple playlists with different audio track sorting. One of the created playlists contains a random sort order. Actually, there’s a “mix” option in the MMI but it gets deactivated every now and then so having a randomized playlist might be a good thing. The following playlists are created by MMITunes:
- MMITunes_RND.m3u: Random sorting, as described above
- MMITunes_TRK_RND.m3u: Artists in alphabetical order but albums and tracks in random order
- MMITunes_SORTED.m3u: Artists, albums in alphabetical order, tracks in play order if track number is set in iTunes
Screenshot:
In case you’re using a folder structure on that SD-card to organize your music: MMITunes will take care of it and add playlist entries for audio tracks it finds in subfolders as well. I also added an option for Audi RNS-E users to delete all hidden files and directories on the SD-card. Unfortunately, the RNS-E displays hidden “.”-files as playable audio tracks.
The latest MMITunes release is available in the downloads area. It requires the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X. It’s untested with Mac OS X versions prior to 10.6.4. MMITunes is free of charge and not bound by any particular license. Install it by opening the .dmg and drag n’ drop the application icon to the application folder.
If MMITunes isn’t exactly what you need you may want to have a look at Export to Audi MMI, iTunes Export and Blue Harvest.
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hi,
nicely done.
but how do I go about creating a playlist on my MacBook and copying the playlist to the HD which is in the MMI ??
thnks
Not at all, I’m afraid. This is only for MMI-devices which sport an SD-Card slot.
Cheers,
Jan
I’m on a Mac running 10.6.4. Besides the automatically generated playlists, is there a way to create “your own” playlists on the SD card? I’ve tried everything, iTunes .m3u export, folders, etc.
Jeff
you will have to use MMItunes, which you can download from this site.
the playlists you get, can be modified with a plain text-editor
I understand how to edit the text. Will this program create playlists other than the automatically generated ones??
Jeff, no, it won’t.
Cheers,
Jan
Anybody know a way to accomplish this?
MMItunes creates playlists.
you have to put the music on an SD-card or USB-stick.
start MMItunes and select the volume.
pls note: it runs on OS X
not on the other thing, what was it called again :)
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Thank you very much, is perfect!
Have a problem, last line says ‘null’, and cannot finish, whats wrong?
HELP
Can you post a screenshot?
Cheers,
jan
Would but how do it do that here?
http://gallery.me.com/matts360#100270
here you go
I think I found it. I uploaded a new version. I also optimized the error output in this version so if the problem still exists, please send another screenshot.
Cheers,
Jan
thanks Jan, but get same problem shown in these screen =shots (had ot do two as couldnt expand box)
http://gallery.me.com/matts360#100278
Matt, I just uploaded a new version that should fix this particular problem. The library I use to read the ID tags seems to have a problem reading a certain track. The current version will skip a track if it can’t read its ID tags.
Cheers,
Jan
Hi, I just got a 2011 Audi A8 with 2 sd card slots. I have a MacBook Pro, and all the music on my iTunes comes from CDs I have purchased over the years. I am totally confused by the technical terms here and on most sites, so please feel free to “talk down” to me; no offense will be taken.
If I downloaded MMItunes, what do I do next? I assume I insert a 32 gb sd card in the computer, but then what? Do I go to iTunes and export music, and if so where: by highlighting the music library and dragging it somewhere?
Thanks for any help you can provide. I am perfectly happy just using my iPd, but I wouldn’t mind having music played on the car’s Juke Box via sd cars so the iPod doesn’t tempt any burglars.
This is a warning that the current version not only failed to detect any media on my stick, but still deleted all existing files without a reason. There must be a severe bug in the current release.
The easier way:
1) Create Folders with the names of your playlists on your SD card.
2) Open iTunes. Click on a Playlist. Select all Songs in that Playlist.
3) Drag the songs to the appropriate folder on your SD card.
Isn’t that exactly what I wrote in my post? Using MMItunes you _addionally_ have multiple playlists for every folder so the MMI won’t play the songs in the order they’re found on the volume.
Cheers,
Jan
I agree with Twips. I had copied nearly 4GB of data on my Micro SD Card. Then I used MMITunes. Since I know that the Mac creates ._ type of useless files, I selected the option to “Remove hidden files and directories”. It went ahead and removed my entire 4GB worth of Music folder.
And surprisingly, ONLY the Music folder.
This will be fixed in 2.1.4, I’m sorry if it caused any inconvenience. Just don’t use the option for now. It’s only needed for the Audi RNS-E anyway because the RNS-E detects the hidden files as playable music tracks which is very annoying.
Cheers,
Jan
No Apologies required Jan. I’m an IT professional as well and I do understand that there could be bugs.
I only wished to inform you of this problem, especially it would deem to a “BIG” problem amongst novice users.
Thanks for looking into it and looking forward to 2.1.4.
Cheers,
Srini