Infotainment Rest & USB Drive

[STDriverNC]

Hello ST owners! I've had my 2025 ST for a couple of weeks and I have two questions about the infotainment system:

1. When I started the vehicle, the infotainment screen did not load. I had to hold down the power button and the seek button on the steering wheel for 10 seconds for a reset. Has that happened to anyone? What may have caused that?

2. I have a USB flash drive with music. I like my concerts, but the infotainment system only plays music in alphabetic order. I've formatted the flash drive to FAT32, tried to create .m3u playlists (works on PC, not in the ST .

Are there any recommendations with my above situation and the flash drive?

Thank you!

 

[Blue Beast]

Welcome to the form

 

[Explorer 5]

I've found the infotainment system difficult to navigate simply because there are far, far too many options, choices, and features. At some point our world needs to realize not all people live and die by cell phones and somebody else's fancy tech ideas that will change to someone else's fancy tech ideas with the next version.

Now that I've got that rant out of my system, LOL.. when I put my usb music on, there is a menu to play the way you want. It's just a matter of finding it. I think you can also do it via voice commands.

I found this video helpful and found out a few things I never would have known otherwise:

 

[STDriverNC]

Thank you for this information. I will take a look at the video.

 

[STDriverNC]

I believe I figured out the USB flash drive and how songs do not play in order. The infotainment system reads the title of the song, not the file name. So, if you change the title of the song to begin with 01, 02, 03, ...you will be good-to-go:

I used Mp3tag:

• Open Mp3tag.
• Select all your files (Ctrl + A).
• Press Shift + Alt + 6 to open Actions (Quick).
• Choose Action type: Format value.
• Set:
  • Field: TITLE
  • Format string: %_filename%
• Click OK.

 

[Explorer 5]

Yes, I think that's the only way to do it. Mine last two Explorers always played in alphabetical order by song title also.

 

[MorrisCode]

Hello ST owners! I've had my 2025 ST for a couple of weeks and I have two questions about the infotainment system:

1. When I started the vehicle, the infotainment screen did not load. I had to hold down the power button and the seek button on the steering wheel for 10 seconds for a reset. Has that happened to anyone? What may have caused that?

2. I have a USB flash drive with music. I like my concerts, but the infotainment system only plays music in alphabetic order. I've formatted the flash drive to FAT32, tried to create .m3u playlists (works on PC, not in the ST .

Are there any recommendations with my above situation and the flash drive?

Thank you!

When you at the home screen and the song is playing, click the song title, then the whole screen is the player, then click the first option which looks like 2 arrows crossing each other. That shuffle so now it will shuffle your music and not play in alphabetic order.

as far as play list, the only why i found is make different folders and name the folder and put that type songs in the folder. Then when your searching go to the folder you want to play, click it open, then just click the first song and it will play all the songs in that folder only. Now it will play those in alphabetic order but just do the same as the first responce i wrote.