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Happy Holidays,
Our BeoSound 3 has been in our living room for years, and this holiday season we put it in our daughter's room so she could have some higher-quality music.
i tested the device and it was working perfectly. it took the sd card out to change the music. after some fooling around, i have re-formatted the card and it is not read by the BeoSound 3.
I formatted the SD card in FAT (from a PC) with default allocation size. I even went back to the initial music files that worked before the re-format and no luck.
Hi,
did you make a separate folder for each collection of songs when you copied music to the SD card? The BS 3 will not read songs stored in the root level of the card, nor will it read sub-folders.
if you wanted to have 3 different genres available, you'd need to create 3 folders, then copy the appropriate songs to each folder.
Hi Scott, reformat using the following link and it should work properly for you. All the best, Simon.
B&O products are V1-32, BS2, H95, E8 and an Essence remote.11-46 now replaced with Sony A90J 65”, Sony HT-A9, Sony UBP-X800M2 and Sony SRS-NS7.
Bingo !
The format tool saved me. Thanks for the all the tips.
It mostly works now, though some albums and some songs are missing. Any other tips on using the BS3 ?
I read somewhere that it doesn't like some album artwork, so I got rid of that. Does it have any issues with special characters ?
And how does it sort the albums (directories) and the songs within ?
Merci encore !
- Scott
If I recall from using mine, the folders (directories) are sorted alphabetically, and the songs are sorted by track number within the folder. I always made one folder per album. I don't recall a maximum number of tracks, but I've had at least 16 songs per folder. I guess 99 is likely the maximum.
The song title format on the SD card in folders is "00 Song Title With Spaces And Special Characters.ext" where 00 is the track number starting at 01 and continuing, and ext is either wma or mp3.
The BS3 can only read wma and mp3 formats.
That's all I remember from using mine.
Thanks for the link above, years later and it's still working! I just copied files to a disk from my Mac and it didn't work. Formatted it correctly like above and it did!
Although I had to change the disk name from "Easy Listening" to "Smooth" so maybe it's just the name compatibility thing that threw it. Ie perhaps the Mac's modern standards allow that but the older SD card ones made it unreadable to the BS3?
[edit] Nope, it's the not the long name because I quickly made one called "80s" on my Mac and it didn't work either, but it did when I spent a few minutes reformatting and doing it correctly with the 3rd party formatter