Tom Tom 910 music

[jimmymerlin]

Hi
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to delete individual songs from my Tom Tom 910?
The only option I have seen is to delete ALL of the songs.

Many thanks

JimmyMerlin

[mikealder]

Connect the device to the PC and use Windows Explorer to remove the tracks you no longer require - Mike

[jimmymerlin]

thanks very much..............that worked a treat

Jimmy Merlin

[jimmymerlin]

Could I have some more advice regarding deleting music from my 910 please.

I connected my tom tom to my PC and then treated it as an external drive and opened up the MP3 files ( if you get my meaning)!!!!!

I deleted a few albums I no longer wanted, using the normal right click and delete option. The file was deleted but when I go back and switch the tom tom back on, after disconnecting it from the PC, to check the music files it still shows the file in the tom tom.

This is very strange as it doesn't show the music file when I use the PC to open the tom tom files to edit.

Also would I be able to drag and drop music files around within tom tom using the PC to read tom tom as an external drive? This would allow me to put different tracks from the same artist all together under one album name for example.

Finally..............should I be able to drag and drop new music files from my PC and put them into the tom tom in the way you suggested or would I still need to go through tom tom home to install new music files.

Sorry this is such a long question but I've been pulling my hair out since yesterday trying to sort it out ( and I don't really have that much spare to pull out)!!!!!

Thanks in frustration

Jimmy Merlin

[Andy_P]

Quite a few questions but they all come down to a couple of main things.

1. I can guarantee that if you really DO remove the files from the Go with Explorer, they WILL disappear from the TomTom screen. You must have doubles somewhere.

I know you don't believe what I just said but hopefully #2 will help!

2. The TomTom does not use the FILENAMES to display the names of songs on screen.
IT uses the "ID3 Tags" contained inside the files themselves (These include the Song Name, the Artiste, Album, etc.)

When you add songs to the TomTom it SHOULD arrange them into nested ARTIST and ALBUM folders automatically (again just like iTunes does on the PC) but it gets it wrong if the Tags are wrong.

Sometimes these Tags are wrong, incomplete, in the wrong format (there are several) or missing entirely; and that causes all sorts of confusion and mis-filing by the TomTom (which doesn't sort it out as well as iTunes or Windows Media Player for example).

I know. I've been there!!


There are quite a few utilities available which can view and edit these tags, but I just use iTunes itself (right click on a song name in the main iTunes screen, select "show info" and then the "info" tab. The tags are editable on that screen.

Finally, you CAN drag and drop files from the PC using Explorer, but for all the same reasons as above I'd advise only doing it with complete folders that have already been organised by iTunes or Media Player. Otherwise all sorts of odd arrangements start all over again!

Hope that helps, it was a few months ago I went through all this, so I might be a bit hazy on the exact details, but any more questions, just ask and I'll look at what I did again.

[mikealder]

After you have performed the track removal using Windows Explorer did the TomTom re-boot on next power up i.e. a pair of red hands on the screen and the drum noise on initial start up?

If it didn't it will still have the audio tracks loaded within memory, the re-boot forces the unit to read the music tracks from the storage. A TT device should re-boot this way folloing connection to a PC, but its a thought as to why it is behaving this way - Mike

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