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Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system

From	David Fritzinger <email@domain.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: "extra" files seen in VW infotainment system
Date	2015-03-24 09:38 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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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?

Thank you in advance again.

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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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