RESOLVED USB shuffle?

[fbechodoc]

OTA update 2.2.2 was supposed to introduce Shuffle for USB audio. I use USB audio in my Lucid, but I don't see a shuffle icon on the display. Can anyone tell me how to engage shuffle play with USB audio? Thank you!

 

[Snafu]

I hadn't seen it yesterday, but if you have the USB selected and playing, the display on the right side of the cockpit should show the shuffle option on the far right and the repeat function on the left, underneath the song. It's nice not to have all my songs playing in alphabetical order!

 

[fbechodoc]

Thank you! And I salute your ambition for actually playing music from your USB drive to find the solution. I apparently couldn't be bothered to try that. I assumed it ought to work like my old iPod Nano. Or my old Tesla M3, for that matter. I appreciate your help.

 

[joec]

USB is the best sound quality you can get in the Air, outside of Dolby tracks on Tidal. Although I do think Dolby Atmos is technically possible via USB as well. There's just not many easy ways to get tracks.

 

[segbrk]

USB is the best sound quality you can get in the Air, outside of Dolby tracks on Tidal. Although I do think Dolby Atmos is technically possible via USB as well. There's just not many easy ways to get tracks.

Yeah, lossy Atmos tracks play from USB same as from Tidal. But the only way I know to buy full 7.1.4 Atmos music is on BluRay, which is lossless. And as far as I can tell nothing can encode that to the lossy Atmos format except Dolby’s elusive pro software.

 

[Haggy]

I hadn't seen it yesterday, but if you have the USB selected and playing, the display on the right side of the cockpit should show the shuffle option on the far right and the repeat function on the left, underneath the song. It's nice not to have all my songs playing in alphabetical order!

I don't want to listen to songs in alphabetical order, but I'd like to see a lot more than shuffle. 25 years ago, I could add folders to a playlist (back then, add up to six CDs to a physical player but same idea) and when one finished, it would go to the next. I don't want to hunt things down when I'm driving, or have the contents of one album finish and end up listening to nothing.

There should be a way to queue things (either songs or albums/folders), "favorite" things, make playlists that can be picked from a menu, etc. What's there right now is literally less capable in some ways than a 25 year old CD changer, except for the obvious ability to have potentially hundreds instead of six. But it takes so long to load the USB that I wonder how useful improvements would really be for me if they can't figure out how to pick up where the car left off without rescanning the drive if the drive never got removed.

 

[idiot900]

M3U or PLS format playlist support would go a long way here - you could assemble a playlist on a real computer and bring to the car. But given how few users there are that would actually use this functionality I can respect an argument that it's not worth the engineer time to implement.

It's a shame that Lucid has this really capable Atmos hardware but it's so hard to actually show it off. The Tidal-supplied app is pretty bad (just compare to the Spotify app next to it) and does not easily surface Atmos tracks.

I'm glad they seem to understand that improvements to the USB interface will help market the sound system by making it that much more possible to play Atmos tracks.

 

[Negan1000]

I don't want to listen to songs in alphabetical order, but I'd like to see a lot more than shuffle. 25 years ago, I could add folders to a playlist (back then, add up to six CDs to a physical player but same idea) and when one finished, it would go to the next. I don't want to hunt things down when I'm driving, or have the contents of one album finish and end up listening to nothing.

There should be a way to queue things (either songs or albums/folders), "favorite" things, make playlists that can be picked from a menu, etc. What's there right now is literally less capable in some ways than a 25 year old CD changer, except for the obvious ability to have potentially hundreds instead of six. But it takes so long to load the USB that I wonder how useful improvements would really be for me if they can't figure out how to pick up where the car left off without rescanning the drive if the drive never got removed.

Try the new update. It has shuffle play. It also remembers where you left off after a stop.

 

[thepolock]

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Lucid software folks for finally getting to this update/fix. I live in an area that streaming is a less than poor option. and with Lucid not having the best radio reception (most of the radio stations I can get are of Mexican origins, I don't sing or speak Spanish) USB is a strong alternative.

Using the latest update, I've been exposed to a number possible problems/fixes to consider.

As someone else has mentioned, after about six songs in shuffle mode it seems to then continue to play songs in order from the last album.

Two, trying to identify whether you are in repeat or shuffle mode is difficult at best. Please make the icons larger and more defined with possibly bright colors to positively identify which mode you are in. The small lines in the icons, the light gray or darker gray are not easy to identify in daylight. How about going to green or red icons?

It seems to limit a folder to 362 songs as I recall. My USB has over 700 songs and the Lucid seems to break them down to two smaller folders with around 362 songs each.

I'll add some more songs to the USB drive I'm using to see what happens.

All in all, I'm pleased that the got around to this. Thank you. Now smooth the edges and I'll be happier still.

w

 

[idiot900]

While there are certainly improvements to the USB music functionality to be made, I would also echo my delight that it's now in some kind of a usable state.

 

[Negan1000]

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Lucid software folks for finally getting to this update/fix. I live in an area that streaming is a less than poor option. and with Lucid not having the best radio reception (most of the radio stations I can get are of Mexican origins, I don't sing or speak Spanish) USB is a strong alternative.

Using the latest update, I've been exposed to a number possible problems/fixes to consider.

As someone else has mentioned, after about six songs in shuffle mode it seems to then continue to play songs in order from the last album.

Two, trying to identify whether you are in repeat or shuffle mode is difficult at best. Please make the icons larger and more defined with possibly bright colors to positively identify which mode you are in. The small lines in the icons, the light gray or darker gray are not easy to identify in daylight. How about going to green or red icons?

It seems to limit a folder to 362 songs as I recall. My USB has over 700 songs and the Lucid seems to break them down to two smaller folders with around 362 songs each.

I'll add some more songs to the USB drive I'm using to see what happens.

All in all, I'm pleased that the got around to this. Thank you. Now smooth the edges and I'll be happier still.

w

Agreed with your observations. After 2.2.10, it does not appear to shuffle outside of the album that is playing. Also the shuffle mode does not stay enabled after the car to turned off and restarted.

 

[thepolock]

As I mentioned above, I would add some more music to my USB drive and see what happens (the Lucid USB app split my 700+ songs in to two directories of 350+). I added about 80 new songs and it split those 80 songs in to 40 new ones for each folder. So it didn't particularly "limit" the directory to 362 each, but did add 40 new titles to each. Strange behavior.

w