memory card music in a go 940

blackstars · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 05, 2009 Posts: 53

hi guys,

dont know if this is a bit off topic, so here go's anyway !

i have a 8gb micro card for my go940, i have put 5 mp3 albums onto the
card, and put it into my device. i have had a look everywhere in the music player, and i cannot find them to play them, where will i find them ?

also i have a double din unit in my car, running igo8 with wince6, would the speed cameras and the pois off my 940 work with igo8 ?

thanks

mikealder · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:33 am Post subject:

For the mp3 tracks you need to create a folder on the memory card named "mp3" (without the "") then chuck all your music in to this folder, the device will pick it up and make the tracks available when you next switch it on.

As for IGo you need to download a different set of data which is available from the speed camera download page, the database supports lots of different data formats but you can't use a TomTom data type in IGo software - Mike

blackstars · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 05, 2009 Posts: 53

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:48 am Post subject:

The TomTom doesn't usually use the file names or folder names to sort the music.
Everything is done using "ID3 Tags" metadata which is buried in the mp3 file. This is exactly the same as how iTunes does it.

However, if the data is missing it resorts to using the file names, and that's when it can all go horribly wrong, especially if there's SOME ID3 data but it's not right.

The reason the tracks are playing in the wrong order is probably this...
It sounds like your files are named like this:

1-some song
2 -another song
upto
10-yet another song
11-a final song

...And so (just the same as windows does), the TomTom arranges them 'alphabetically' with 1,10,11 etc. before 2. Annoying!

So the simplest solution is to rename all your tracks with a zero at the front of the low numbers like this:

01-some song
02 -another song
upto
10-yet another song
11-a final song

Then they will appear in the right order.

But to fix ALL the potential problems, you are much better off getting the ID3 tags right.
The metadata tags give artist name, track name, album name, album artist, track number, cd number (for a multi-CD project), the musical style/genre, and a few other items.

They SHOULD all be created properly, but depending on how you made or got hold of your mp3s they could be incomplete, wrong or missing entirely.

iTunes includes a good tag editor, just right click on a song and select "Get info" from the context menu, or if you don't like iTunes there are plenty of stand-alone ID tag editors on the web.

Here's what they look like in iTunes for a typical "Green Day" song.
You can just rewrite any of the fields and it automatically resaves it into the mp3 file.

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:19 am Post subject:

I missed your second question....

There is a camera database download for the iGo so it should be possible.

The file is formatted as simple text (with a .txt extension to the name) so you might also be able to put POIs on as well, I don't know the iGo system at all....

The Garmin .csv format is actually just text, but all the commas and spaces etc. need to be in exactly the right places, so if you can find out if the unit takes POI files it should be possible to convert your TomTom POI files to csv and/or .txt using something like POIEdit (Google it to find a download site)

lyskamm · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 58

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