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REplying to my post as I have made an awesome discovery. Saw some comments on voice control to access artist so I tried it, and it works, not only does it work but it bypasses my #2 complaint about albums. I can say "Play artist Rush" and it makes a playlist of all Rush songs on my USB. Likewise, I can say "play Blues" and it plays all songs with Blues as Genre (might want to say genre blues). Finally, "Play composer mellow" will make a playlist for all songs I tag composer with the word mellow. Best part, shuffle now represents the playlist, meaning you can cycle through shuffle off, shuffle playlist, and shuffle all (rather than shuffle folder). Strange that you have to use voice commands to do this but it definitely makes everything much rosier now. Voice commands have to initiate each time, 1 minute to initiate my 16gb USB, another minute for voice commands to be initiated. Still not perfect but getting better. Now I need to add some Beatles...

Playing with the head unit on my new 18 Forrester (no nav). Was originally optimistic after testing a few files on a small USB, but ran into issues as I bulked up. I am aware of the 255 song per folder limit, and the 9999 total song limit per USB. That said, there are two big annoyances I've come across 1. Load time every car start - worse for large collections. I tried a full 9500 song collection on a 64gb usb, after 10 minutes of scanning still did not load a library. Cut this in half, too long. FInally tried about 3000 songs on a 16gb usb, first time I inserted took 4 minutes to get a library. Good news is if I left the USB inserted and restarted the car, only takes about 1 minute to rebuild the library. So 4x as much time the first round. 2. Playlist files not supported, but the ID3 info (artist, album) reads pretty well. I tried changing composer (which I never use) to a name so I can treat it like a dynamic playlist. It works, almost. Issue is the same as with genre or artist, you cannot just have it play one artist or one genre, or one composer/playlist. It breaks then down into albums, so I would have to remove all album data. Even then, I try to tell it to play Jazz, it will only let me play an artist under jazz (no albums) or an album of an artist under jazz. This is really dumb, anyone know a work around? So, greater than 16gb might take over 10 minutes to load first time, if it drops to 2 minutes after that I can live with it. The 9999 song limit is the bigger issue. If I want to use songs under artist (one directory) and part of a playlist (another directory) I need to add the song twice to the USB. These are petty little issues that should not exist. 1. We need to be able to store the music library so it doesn't take 1-3 minutes to load 2. You should be able to play all of one artist, all of one genre, etc 3. Why not play m3u files? 4. Seriously, why a song limit? Good news is ipod support is much faster (uses the ipod database), so if you have an old classic you are set.