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jerm
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Post by jerm »

Hello all, just taken delivery of a new Macan S. Was hoping I could use my classic iPod to play my music but no so I've copied 1700 songs onto a 32 Gb SD card. Total tunes volume is 9.7Gb

It only shows the first 1000 songs. Or in alphabetical order artists A-L. Which is a spookily round number

I thought the PCM limit was much much higher than 1000 files, I heard it was 10,000.

Local dealer cannot find an answer either.

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Post by Madelvic »

I have my music spread over two 64Gb SD cards (a single128Gb card didn't work)

One has 52Gb used the other 27Gb. Both are formatted ExFAT. Bigger one has 6000+ files
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Post by porscot »

I suspect if you look at the contents of the SD card on a computer you will find it actually has 2 folders. One with the first 1000 songs and the next with 700 songs. I imagine the Macan has found the first folder and read through that but not gone on to read the other folder. I imagine this can be sorted by moving the songs all into 1 folder. I don't think there is a limitation of files in a folder, just a default behaviour to limit the number of files in one folder.

I know with my iPhone 6, when I took photo 1001 it wrote that to a new folder but both that new folder and the original folder were both sub-folders so if I tried to copy everything I would have copied the high level folder (so both sub-folders and all their contents). I imagine that is what happened in this case. Hope that is all making sense.

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Post by Madelvic »

Not sure about this. I have multiple folders on my SD card. Because of the size of the music collection I've made folders called A-C, D-F etc and then copied the artists into the relevant folder. Also each Artist has a separate folder, and each album a separate folder too.

I would have though if there was a limitation, it would be the number of files in a folder
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Post by Madelvic »

I found in the manual it states 10,000 flies are supported. Hope this helps

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Post by Col M »

I think there's a 999 file indexation limit per folder. You'll need to split your collection over a number of folders.
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Post by jerm »

Bingo - well done that man!

I created 2 folders - and split the tunes so that there was less than a thousand in each and all is good.
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Does anyone know if a new iPod touch will work with 2020 Macan?
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Post by Madelvic »

When I connect my iPhone it asks if I want it as an iPod or using Apple CarPlay. Try it!
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