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I have a 2016 Ford Flex which i absolutely love and am trying to understand how the usb side works. If i put a bunch of folders with music in them. Can I say " Usb , then foldername" to play it. How do i make playlists on usb drive. I have access to mac or windows. Can you say usb and playlist name?

This is how it works, but it is NOT how it should work. When I choose Shuffle and All (Album is grayed out) the system only randomly plays a portion of the list and then stops. Long explanation below. Bottom line, it will skip a large number of the songs in the playlist and never play them... sigh Create Playlists in Windows Media Player. Sort the list Alphabetically just for convenience. Load into 2013 Sync (all latest updates applied). Re-index the music and all ready to go. Pick a Playlist with 90 songs in it and start playing song #1 in the list. If I do NOT use Shuffle, the songs play in order 1,2,3,etc. showing 1/90, 2/90, 3/90, etc. Then, select Shuffle and All. Now, the same song that was #1 (1/90) before shows as 27/90 and then it randomly plays the songs listing them as 28/90, 29/90, etc. NOW, the bad part, when it gets to 90/90 it just STOPS. That's it. 27 songs in the Playlist are never played... randomly never played, but skipped nonetheless. It is definitely "shuffling" the songs it does play. If I go and check the actual song number from the Playlist they are not being played in sorted (alpha in this case) order as they were without Shuffle. This is NOT how it SHOULD work. 1/90 should always be 1/90 and on Shuffle it should jump around like 23/90, 88/90, 2/90, etc. until ALL 90 songs are played. That's how it works on virtually ALL music players I have or have used... except this one. Is this a BUG I have found or am I missing something?

I have scoured the internet and have found multiple leads, but still cannot get a M3U playlist exported from iTunes to be readable with my 2010 Ford Escape Sync system. I don't know if it can only be done from Windows and not from a Mac. I downloaded a Mac App called Playlist Exporter hoping that would be the solution and I am still getting the "Bad Playlist" error when I insert my SanDisk 16gb usb drive with my copied itunes library music files and created m3u playlist on the usb. I have tried to do the replace all to take the mappings to my hard drive on my computer, but I don't know exactly how it should look [if I need ../ or my usb name first]. Has anyone been able to successfully play playlists with Ford Sync from either writing up their own m3u file or configuring an exported one? Thanks for any help on this!