I wish I knew what the designers/engineers were thinking when they created the ability to play music from a USB drive. It feels like their target audience is not the type of person that would put music on a USB drive for the car.

I just want it to recognize that I sort my music into folders and show the folder hierarchy. Instead, in my last car, it would flatten the entire structure and then sort by filename. To top off the shitshow, it would also only show up to 99 files, and scrolling through the list was painful. Each tap on the scroll button would only move one line, not one page, so if I wanted to play the 80th song, I'd have to tap to scroll 80 times.

What kind of a monster has more than 99 songs?

Bluetooth in cars is often itself a shitshow, however. You are lucky it does not replicate all the anti-usability features of the USB interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131

This has been an issue for car radios playing digital media ever since it became available though.

so you have a tesla too?

seriously though, the USB audio player is a dumpster fire. They completely redid it with the last update -- and it got worse, not better.

some random examples off the top of my head: - switch to another input source and you lose your audiobook position - sorting is completely utterly broken - audiobook has no skip-back-a-little function - soooo many bugs

The only nice things I could say is that it mounts linux filesystems plus it plays FLAC and Apple lossless directly.