Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system Date: 24 Mar 2015 14:44:11 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net f51osJS+CGStoGSOPNAtNQ9loQaz1NOPe+q5TR4fvq8JPUb4Nf Cancel-Lock: sha1:GGwGw7/1UA1byfc7n25eLP/1qVU= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:71999 On 2015-03-24, David Fritzinger 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR