2023 Playing The Player

Hi - In about 2 months with the 4Runner @ 1,200 miles. Been playing around with the OEM player with some success and some frustration. It's a bit complex with details so I did a video to show what's going on. My main library is 9,700+ tracks which played fine in the XTerra GraceNote player from a USB storage device.
- The 4Runner player locks out searching functions which is frustrated when there is a passenger present.
- Need to use cascading folders or 500 tracks to load tracks.
- Voice commands work on a smaller library (~500 tracks) but are unpredictable on the main library.
- Accessory times out in 20 minutes which is less that the library index time. Not sure if the accessory timeout can be extended to shut off when a door is opened??
- When searching by artist, the player returns all the albums for that artist but there is no ALL feature for tracks. You thus need to know what album your track lives in.

Just wondering what others are experiencing and perhaps provide some constructive input. We're looking into getting a Sony Walkman player and pairing that via the BlueTooth interface. I did get my large library to play on shuffle. But the MP3 codec is weaker that any other player I've been using. Cymbals and high notes sound shiny. Thanks in advance for any input.

 

Sorry I didn't have patience to listen your video in detail. But here is a quick video to show how I use voice commands to play music.

https://youtu.be/niiriN3s7Ec

**Few things to note. I use only 1 USB drive on my USB hub (its my workplace branded USB hub so no idea about a real make and model) and other port is used for my phone for Android Auto. I only have about 3000 songs on my USB drive.

 

Thanks. The USB drives via the 2 port hub work well. Nice feature. I haven't had the time to see how many tracks I can store before the voice commands become unreliable. There are a lot of details to know about when using this system.

 

This is what I have. I use 1 port for my USB drive and another for my phone. The other 2 ports are free for now.