USB MP3 not remembering

[drugekull]

Hi Guys

I have the USB feature in my 320d and I am busy listing to an audio book but one thing that is really getting on my nerves is it does not remember where I left off when I switch off the car.

Even when I answer a Phone call over bluetooth it comes back a good few chapters back

Is this a know issue is there a way around this

The audio book has 25 1 hour tracks could it be the length of the tracks that is messing it up

 

[Seether]

strange. mine remembers where I left off, but if I receive a BT phonecall, it keeps on playing in the background (ie. it doesn't pause for the duration of the call). What device are you connecting to the USB? A flash drive?

 

[drugekull]

Yeah I am connecting a 4 gig flash drive

I don't notice it much with music because even if it jumps back a bit in the track you don't really notice

It does remember the track but not where it is on that track.

These tracks are an hour long so when it jumps back I spend a good 10 minutes fast forwarding to the correct place again. It also jumps back when I answer a phone call really irratating that.

 

[Nastaliq]

I have a 320d with usb functionality and a BMW 8gb flash on there.

When i receive a call via BT connectivity, the audio is paused. Not stopped or volume lowered, its paused, and as soon as the call is terminated, it resumes.

WRT the audi not storing the exact place to stop and then resume, I have made some observations.

1. on short tracks, there isnt any problem with the "car" remembering where it was when you switched off the car and went away, then coming back, and having it start at exactly the same place.

2. When tracks are long, htere appears to be a problem. The car cannot remember where it stopped and will just begin at the beginning of the track, not where you left off.

3. I am busy trying to establish if there is any correlation with switching off the radio (pushing the button) before you switch the ignition offand the car being able to remember the exact point you left off or whether the car should remember irrespective of whether you disengaged the radio then the car, or just disengagded the ignition.

When i have something, I will post it up, but I have already noticed a relationship between long tracks and and inability to "remember" where it left off.

 

[drugekull]

I also suspected this since these audio book tracks are an hour each this would explain it also it does not loose its place when near the beginning of the track only near the middle or end

So your observation of long tracks causing this seams to be correct

It would be useful to know what the maxiumum track size can before it starts to loose its place. This way we can chop current tracks to this maximum and we should be ok

Hopefully its a decent maximum line 30 minutes not just 5