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The revival of this thread motivated me to go down the tedious road of the only viable solution (in part due to Toyota still using FAT32, the crappy large font navigation, and because the toyota system doesn't reliably recognize tags for FLAC files) to creating the equivalent of playlists. And that is to create folders at the artist level (root) called, e.g., playlist01, and putting copies of the songs for that playlist into that folder. That way you can pick the playlist under the "artist" selection category from the touchscreen.
It's tedious because my music files were all FLAC and I don't have a lot of spare space on the drive to make these copies into separate directories. So I converted all the FLAC to mp3 (320kbps CBR), which reduced the overall size to about 1/3 of the FLAC size), then I embedded all the album art into each each mp3 song file (because you wouldn't be able to display the folder.jpg album art for each song if you just copied a bunch of random song files into a directory called playlist01).
Now, in theory, I just add a folder called playlist01, playlist 02, etc., at the root level of the USB stick, and copy the desired files into each playlist folder. But it will just play them in alphabetical order so if you want to control the order, edit the mp3 filenames within the playlist folder with a numeric prefix and it will playback in that order.
It's tedious because my music files were all FLAC and I don't have a lot of spare space on the drive to make these copies into separate directories. So I converted all the FLAC to mp3 (320kbps CBR), which reduced the overall size to about 1/3 of the FLAC size), then I embedded all the album art into each each mp3 song file (because you wouldn't be able to display the folder.jpg album art for each song if you just copied a bunch of random song files into a directory called playlist01).
Now, in theory, I just add a folder called playlist01, playlist 02, etc., at the root level of the USB stick, and copy the desired files into each playlist folder. But it will just play them in alphabetical order so if you want to control the order, edit the mp3 filenames within the playlist folder with a numeric prefix and it will playback in that order.
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