Just got my new 2018 Prius with the 11.6 screen. Plugged in my music via USB cable but cannot seem to browse my music by artist or albums. It plays but only starts with Songs and then plays the songs alphabetically. I can’t browse to a certain artist or album. What am I doing wrong?
Not sure if there's much that can be done - I've got the older screen. It seems to play songs at random. Which isn't much good when you're listening to mix of songs, and after the 1st Movement of Mozart K488 it follows with Bach Fugue from BWV565 - UGGGGH - A major to D minor is fine - BUT - you're expecting Mozart's F#min !!!!!
Mine works fine. I have a 2018 Prius 4 with the 11.6 in screen. At the top of the browse screen (about half way to the top of the 11.6 in display) you should see the various categories - Album, Artist, Folder, etc. The radio buttons across the top are narrower than the regular radio buttons and are easily missed. Once you selected the desired category, return to "now playing". There you can select either sequential play (in alphabetical order) or random play. Hope this helps.
You are correct that alphabetical sequence will not play classical music in the proper sequence. You can fix this by renaming the mp3 files - adding a pseudo track number at the beginning of the filename. Example: For Beethoven Symphony No. 3 Rename the mp3 filenames for the four movements as follows: Symphony No 3 Allegro con brio.mp3 ---> 01 Symphon No 3 Allegro con brio.mp3 Symphony No 3 Marcia funebre Adagio assai.mp3 ---> 02 Symphony No 3 Marcia funebre Adagio assai.mp3 Symphony No 3 Scherzo Allegro vivace Alla breve.mp3 ---> 03 Symphony No 3 Scherzo Allegro vivace Alla breve.mp3 Symphony No 3 Finale Allegro molto Poco Andante Presto.mp3 ---> 04 Symphony No 3 Finale Allegro molto Poco Andante Presto.mp3 Note: The track number must be a two digit number so that tracks for long pieces (like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, or the Stravinsky ballets) do not play out of sequence. Otherwise selecting alphabetical sequence will play tracks 11 through 19 before track 2. You have to use 01, 02, 03, 04, etc, for the first nine tracks to prevent this from happening). After adding a track number to the mp3 filename as shown above, the movements will play in sequence.
