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Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system

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On 2015-03-24, David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-24 12:36:18 +0000, David Fritzinger said:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup, but I'll try this anyway. 
>> I recently bought a 2015 VW GTI. Part of the infotainment system is the 
>> ability to store music on SD cards, to be played through the car's 
>> infotainment system. I made copies the songs in my iTunes Music folder, 
>> organized by album, but have been having trouble playing the songs in 
>> the car. What I've recently noticed is that when the card is read in 
>> the car, there appear to be two or more copies of the songs in the 
>> album folder. One of them gives the song's name, but with an underline 
>> preceding the song's name, and with a music symbol with a line through 
>> it before the song's name. The second copy just has the name of the 
>> song. I am unable to play the former (though I sometimes can, with a 
>> bit of fooling aroung-starting and stopping the playback a few times), 
>> but the latter plays with no problem. These extra files don't show up 
>> in the finder on my Mac (Mid 2010 iMac, 27", 3.6 GHz i5, OSX.10.2, 
>> iTunes 12.1.0.50). Are these files needed for the VW to play back the 
>> songs? If not, is there an easy to get rid of them?
>> 
>> Note: When selecting "Show hidden files" in Onyx, the unplayable files 
>> do not show up in the finder.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>
> I just used Onyx, which mentioned the existence of "AppleDouble" files, 
> which contain metadata or resource data to files whose format doesn't 
> suport resources or metadata. The filenames of these files starts with 
> ._, which is the same as the files I was seeing. Question is, will 
> removing the AppleDouble files cause me to lose song information, such 
> as the album and the artist?

No, because ID3 information is stored within the data fork of the song
file.

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"extra" files seen in VW infotainment system David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-03-24 08:36 -0400
  Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-03-24 09:38 -0400
    Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 14:44 +0000
  Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 14:34 +0000
    Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 14:54 +0000
      Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 15:19 +0000
      Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-24 21:24 +0000
        Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-24 21:59 +0000
  Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-24 13:11 -0600
    Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-03-24 15:41 -0400

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