Comments on: MMITunes: Create playlists for your Audi MMI/RNS-E on the Mac

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By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:30:47 +0000

Hi Jan,

unfortunately MMItunes runs only 1 times succesfully. After that I changed all the songs to ID-Tag 2.4 but MMItunes runs over 8 hours without finishing…
Tried the old song-library again (a mix of ID-Tag2.3 and 2.4) but without success too.
Do you have any idea what I can do in addition?
Cheers
Fred

PS: Tried MMItunes 3.01 and an old version (2.x) on MacBookPro too; on SD-card as well as on hard-disc-drive; all without success :-(

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:55:10 +0000

New version: http://trick77.com/2011/10/15/.....playlists/

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:16:24 +0000

Hi Jan,

sounds GREAT!
My “idea”: take the field “genre” from the metadatas of the songs and create genre-playlists. Like “folk”, “jazz” or so.
And this should be done of the stick or hard-disk-drive itself.

Thanks in advance for your efforts!!

Best regards
Fred

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:05:56 +0000

Fred, I’m about to release a new version of MMITunes which is capable of auto-generating genre-based playlists. I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for but at least for me this is quite a useful enhancement.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:05:20 +0000

Hi Jan, thanks a lot for doing this at your site… its so expensive to buy some interfaces to unlock vim and its a simple way to do it on vcds. Im trying to find some help to unlock vim on my Audi a1 2011. It seems its a 3g system. I didnt find the srial number in module 5f. And moduke 07 its not installed in the car. Can you help me unlock it? Thanks a lot,

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:03:22 +0000

Hi Jan,

Jeff asked for the same a year ago: do you have plans to add creating other playlists, like “genre”-playlists.
It would be VERY helpful to me… :-)
Because I´d like to have all my music with me on the 2x32GB-SD-cards and the music is on folders “A”-”Z” regarding the names of the artists. Changes in my music-collection will be considered by sync between MacBookPro and SD-card; but sometime I´d like to hear the music not by artist but by genre. The problem is to have actual playlists by genre on the SD-Card…

Best regards from Germany
Fred

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:18:56 +0000

Hi, to remove the ._ files use the terminal app and run the dot_clean command, so if I have an SD card called music1 you would run:
dot_clean -mv /volume/music1
This will remove the files and show you what it’s doing too.
Hope this helps.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:44:06 +0000

Sorry for the inconvenience Andrew, the option is permanently disabled now.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:34:41 +0000

Unfortunately, your app also wiped my hard disk… I checked “Remove hidden files and directories” and it removed everything from the USB drive. No big deal — I just copied everything over again, but I thought you’d like to know…

(Maybe you should disable this feature?)

P.S. Running Lion with a FAT 160gb USB drive.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:30:13 +0000

You could use the “Blue Harvest” tool mentioned in the blog post to get rid of the hidden files. When I owned a car with an RNS-E the limit was 400 songs but that was like 6 years ago so things might have changed.

Cheers,
Jan

By: dpavey

dpavey — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:14:49 +0000

My Audi has the RNS-E. My Mac creates ._ type of useless files, I selected the option to “Remove hidden files and directories”. It went ahead and removed my entire music folder. Is there away around these annoying useless files?

Also, is there a limit to the number of folders (artists names) I can have on the SD Card?

By: dpavey

dpavey — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:07:26 +0000

the card is formatted as FAT31. The MMItunes converts the songs into MP#s. But adds these annoying copies that arent’t readable. When I check the box, all of my music gets deleted.

By: dpavey

dpavey — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:03:00 +0000

How do I format the card to FAT32. Or check the format? Thanks!

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:00:29 +0000

How did you format the SD card? Are you sure it’s FAT32?
Please make sure you do not enable the remove hidden files checkbox.

Cheers,
Jan

By: dpavey

dpavey — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:42:23 +0000

I have a 2012 Audi TT. I downloaded MMItunes. I dragged my music from itunes over to my SD card,opened MMItunes, clicked Go. When I place the card in my car, it says that there are no readable files. I previously tried putting the music in folders by artist. But, that didn’t work. So, I just dragged the songs over without folders. Still no readable files. Any suggestions? I’ve spent weeks on this and just found MMItunes. Was hoping this was the answer.

Thanks!

By: Srini

Srini — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:38:36 +0000

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

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:35:17 +0000

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

By: Srini

Srini — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:42:09 +0000

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.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:11:05 +0000

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

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:51:34 +0000

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.

By: Twips

Twips — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:21:26 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:07:21 +0000

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.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:02:34 +0000

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

By: Matts360

Matts360 — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:26:41 +0000

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