Ripped Music not recognized on USB in car

[Mash Davis]

I have formatted the usb drive as a FAT32, and when I ripped the songs they were ripped as a MP3, however they are not being recognized by my USB port in my car as being there at all. I'm ripping music off a commercially produced CD to my computer. They are ripping without an issue. I copy them to a USB flash drive, and then putting the flash drive in the car. The car recognizes all my other music that I have, but not the ripped music, in fact it doesn't even appear. I'm using Windows Media Player Version 12 on Windows 7 computer. I put in my USB drive in my computer and then synced it on Windows Media Player with the music that I wanted and it still didn't work. I put it in an old pc running XP, and they ripped and went on the USB and the car recognized it just fine. But for some reason it is not on the Windows 7 version. I've checked the properties on the file, and the settings of the rip procedure on both the Windows 7 and XP machines, and I can't see a difference. I even changed some properties in the ripped file, turning off archive, and still nothing. Any help that can be provided is appreciated.

 

[kanewolf]

You are probably using an unsupported codec. The MP3 format is just a container. Try using EAC and LAME to rip.

 

[Mash Davis]

Ok, you're answer is greek to me. Where do I change to EAC and Lame?

 

[Shaun o]

The simple answer is to install a audio codec pack on windows 7.
If you don`t install the codec pack, then any files or music files you ripped off a cd to the .mp3 format will not bee seen by windows 7 when you place them on a usb stick.

Click on the link bellow, download the audio and video codec pack, click on the install icon or .exe file.
Once done, and all of the codecs are registered in windows with there associated file extentions IE .mp3 or .mp4 restart windows 7.

And let windows re load back to the windows desktop.

And the next time you click on your usb drive, through windows explorer. you will see all of the music files encoded with the .mp3 extention.

http://windows-7-codecs-pack.en.softonic.com/

Windows 7 does not come native with the encoder file extensions used with encoder or decoder programs.

It needs to have a list of file extensions so it can see, display and read the files you convert from one format to another such as a compressed music file with the .mp3 extension as part of the file name.

In any case simply download the codec pack.
Then you will be able to see the files you put on the usb stick and play them also through windows.

 

[kanewolf]

Here is a WIKI with a beginners guide to EAC -- http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_guide_to_EAC
Or maybe this article -- http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/29948/ripping-the-perfect-mp3-with-exact-audio-copy.html