USB won't recognize memory stick or phone

This looks looks it's going to be a Giant pain to fix!

 

iPods connected to the USB should read folders, but I've never tried.

 

Just using a USB stick and MP3 files.

 

Downloaded Tag&Rename and indexed by Album and Genre. That seems to have worked, but it's still a poor system on Toyota's part. I play MP3s on six different systems and this is by far the worst.
Really appreciate all the advice from those who responded to the question, you guys are Great!

 

Try pg. 123 of the Head Unit manual...!!
I put 1 artist/folder and then all of his songs go in there....
Good luck.
Format to FAT 32 before starting...

 

My hierarchy seems to work fine as long as the files are dropped into the USB stick folder as:

+Artist A Folder

--Album A Folder
--Album B Folder​

+Artist B Folder

--Album A Folder
--Album B Folder​

It just doesn't seem conducive for loading a playlist. How are people loading a multi-artist playlist?

 

I'd say then you'd just select Songs/Ramdom play and let it choose songs randomly..

 

Thanks for the help! I am getting this sorted out slowly and things are looking better.

 

yes it does play m4a

 

This worked for me. 128GB going strong.