TomTom GO 910 .mp3 Player Limitations...?

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

Hi there.

I've been busily ripping my cd's to mp3 format using Windows Media PLayer and Sonic Stage (Software made by Sony for use with mp3/mini disc player, rips cd's great!)

Anyway i've been using the 128kbps quality and ripping entire albums along with artist, genre and title names.

I've used TomTom HOME to upload my mp3 files to my GO 910.

I've got about 3000 Tracks ripped so far, totalling about 11GB, but my GO 910 will not recognise over 2279 files.

Has anyone else found this??? Or am i doing something wrong?
Perhaps theres another limitation regarding how many different artists or genre's ect..

I would greatly appreciate a reply from someone who knows, and not a reply from someone saying TomTom HOME is rubbish ect... blah!
Thats not really an answer to my question Confused

I would greatly appreciate a reply,
Cheers,

lydiachris

Tumbleweed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 315

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

Hi there, thanks for your reply.

Firstly, Yes i've tried a reset, didn't work.

Secondly, what I mean by "doesn't recognise" is that the mp3 files are on the go 910 HDD but when I go to TomTom Jukebox, it only finds (when it's searching for the "songs") 2279 and there is 2939 songs on the HDD.

Yes, the mp3's work on the pc, I can play them from the GO 910 and open the mp3's on the pc's harddrive.

All the files end in .mp3,

Any ideas???!!! I've just reset my TomTom using Restore Factory Settings in menu 7/7, i'll try adding the mp3's again.

Is there ay easier way of putting the mp3 fils onto the tomtom go 910 to bypass the TomTom HOME "clicking of each file" then installing them? A copy/cut and paste into th mp3 folder would be easier, can you do that?

Let me know,

lydiachris

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

Hi Mike, can I ask how many mp3 files you have currently installed onto your go 910? Is there a limit??!!

I tried just copy/pasting mp3 files into the "mp3" folder on the go 910 and it did not recognise any of the files, so what your saying is,

Create folders in the mp3 folder on the go 910, lets say I was putting Queen mp3 files onto it.

Firslty you would create a "queen" folder as thats the artist, the inside that folder you would create another folder for the albulm title i.e, "Greatest Hits I" Then inside that, you would place the mp3 files from that albulm?

Am I correct??

Another question, how on earth do you delete certain mp3 tracks via tomtom home? Youc an't can you?

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

I don't have anywhere near that amount of mp3 files loaded 500 tops (I had lots more until I found out what the Delete button does in the home application - not used it since, as it wipes out the lot!!)
Not too sure about a limit as I only load what I like on the 910 which keeps the qty down, the only way to delete individual tracks is via File Explorer - As far as I know.

Your file structure looks OK to me, although is all of the information filled in for each track - if not the tracks seem to appear in the artist list? - I have a number of band recordings (live) that refuse to display correctly, but when you find them they play fine.

- this is what I would use TomTom/ mp3/ Queen/ Greatest Hits/ then then music tracks go into this last folder. - Mike

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

lydiachris. On your ripper, have you set up the Tags properly and renamed the individual tracks or are they simply track 01, 02 etc? Browsing by track does not work properly on most players unless the basic fields are completed. BTW does the 910 display cover art?

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

Tumbleweed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 315

vickyarcher · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

I have 1334 MP3 files on my 910, the 910 will "find" all 1334 songs when it first looks at them, but when you start playing the songs it suddenly says there are only 1199 songs!

Interestingly this is almost exactly a loss of 10% of my songs, could this be related to the bug that adds approximately 10% to the yardage for the POI warnings when you select the warning to amend it (i.e set warning to 300 yards, go back to adjust warning, distance now showing 328 yards)

I am also still having the error on playback of MP3's, the pattern I've found is this.

Switch 910 on after either a soft reset or connection to PC and play MP3's, all will play fine. Resume MP3's on next switch on and most times will get error message "the was an error during audio playback" after the first song (pressing skip will often get the player working fine again for that instance only, or sometimes I need to press pause/play to get the first track to repeat, then all plays well till next time, when quick fixes need to be repeated).

I have also found associated problems with volume level, after connecting to PC/soft reset, 70% volume gives an adequate level. After using the MP3 player, on switching on for the 2nd time the volume is much quieter and I have to increase the level to 100% to achieve the same level as before.

I have emailed Tomtom customer support in a hope that they will look at these bugs and provide a fix in future software updates, as it is really proving to be very buggy.

Has anyone else noticed that after upgrading to 6.12 that they get occasionally on start up a tip screen displayed even though "show tips" is not selected?

I also have the problem with the lack of audible POI warnings if the same type POI follows another, unless a navigation instruction falls in between. Problems with the bluetooth connection where sometimes the tomtom would open a GPRS connection on it's own and download something resulting in charges on my phone bill, this happens with both a SE T610 and Motorola L6, only fix I've found is to re-pair my phone and not set up the internet connection (which means no weather for me!)

Hoping that these all get sorted as working the 910 is amazing, mount issues aside!

Vicky

vickyarcher · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject:

Sorry guys, typo meant version 6.11 (not 6.12)

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

vickyarcher · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:17 am Post subject:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for that, I have already implemented your work around, the point being we shouldn't have too, combined with the many other software anomalies it's making the 910 less attractive and more annoying.

Here's hoping Tomtom get these sorted asap

Vicky

mikealder · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

I have had a "Play around" with my 910 earlier loading up a large qty of mp3 3028 tracks to be exact, when I re-booted the unit (which took ages) it only found 2483 songs which is a different figure to lydiachris - I should expalin to get this amount of music crammed onto the device I had to remove the overseas Text To Speach files as I ran out of drive space, so I would say there is a limit but that is a heck of a lot of music, I will be removing quite a bit of what I put on the unit though to speed up the re-boot time which is now taking 60 seconds to get to the PIN entry screen, then a scan of the installed music takes a further 120 seconds.

I bought the unit for navigation, the extra bells and whistles are great, but I will be dropping back to a more usable (for me anyway) sub 1000 music tracks - I only tried "loading it up" to see if I geot the same result as the OP in this thread - Mike

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

Thanks Mike for that.
I've also been playing around/killing my 910!!

Firstly, yes I do agree with your statement about buying the 910 for navigation, lets all not forget what the go 910 actually is!!!!

Secondly, I have been experimenting. I have a total of 3085 mp3 tracks, all been named, genre, artist, year ect using Sonic Stage.

I have tried putting the mp3 files onto the 910, firstly by placing them in the mp3 folder on the 910, then into artist, then albulm, folder.

i.e.

mp3/Queen/Queen's Greatest hits I/then the mp3 files.

Out of 3085 tracks only about 2400 got "read" by the 910.

I then tried placing all the mp3 files directly into the mp3 folder on the 910. This worked great, it actually found ALL 3085 tracks. I then though, well i don't want all of the music so i deleted some tracks I didn't want, then I re-booted the 910 and it took about 2 minutes to boot up, put in my pin and got to the map screen, when I tapped the screen, the 910 froze, and then re-started itself. Perhaps an error, i thought! so i let itself re-boot and put in my pin again, then same happened. So i thought, bummer. Killed my 910, back to shop. Then i deleted ALL the mp3 files from the 910, and strangly enough it worked again! Phew Rolling Eyes

So, to me it looks likethe 910 will play quite a few mp3 file, IF you put them on in the correct way and IF you never ever delete any once their on!!!!

A little bit odd and strange to me, but lets all never forget, the 910 is a navigational aid, not an iPod!

Anyone have any ideas, let us know,
Cheers,

lydiachris

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