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      05-12-2013, 10:09 PM   #1
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iDrive - Playing MP3 Songs from USB - Showing Duplicate Songs

I noticed this problem from the very first day while playing my MP3 music collection from USB slot in the glove compartment. After selecting artist, album, in addition to the primary track - for example "Song A", duplicate tracks are shown as "Song A 001", "Song A 002". The USB drive does _not_ have duplicate tracks.

Vehicle:
- 2013 BMW 335i xDrive sedan delivered in late February 2013

About USB drive: 32 Gb Sandisk (mini USB drive):
- Formatted on Windows 7 w/FAT32 file system

About USB drive contents:
- Music collection is stored on Mac OS X 10.7.5 in iTunes
- USB drive was inserted in the same Mac and the music collection has been copied via Finder
- Directory structure (same as iTunes > Music)
- Artist > Album > Track

How the problem can be duplicated:
- First, using iDrive select external USB drive and press Browse Directory
- Exact contents of the drive will be seen
- Select artist (will be seen as a directory / folder)
- Select album (same as above)
- Individual tracks can be seen / no duplicates

Then - using iDrive select Search:
- Select the same artist and the same album
- Select Tracks
- Duplicate tracks can be seen "Song A 0001", "Song A 002"

When playing music, iDrive selects the next duplicate song and plays it as if it were an actual track. I noticed this problem when the same song began to play 3 times in a row.

Very strange.

Does anyone have the same problem?

Last edited by cfm56d7b; 05-13-2013 at 11:02 AM..
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