Clarion Head Unit issue For Mp3s

[Lanc3r]

Recently purchased a Clarion CZ703A head unit and have encountered an issue when playing mp3 through USB.

Sound wise, it all works fine, it's a problem I'm having with the folder structure. I have it all set up as follows... Artists>Albums>Songs. The problem is, the Artist folders do not show up. Only the Album folders which are the ones containing the audio which results in an extremely messy media library when it is all sorted by Album instead of Artist and I can't seem to find any way of accessing those root folders.

Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

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[Infinbaruyota]

Clarion has always had issues with category setup in this department... my CZ309 from a few years ago does this too... I don't try to control with the HU... just use the aux input and do it from your source... save yourself the headache.

 

[RubiBlueJay]

While I don't have a Clarion deck (Kenwood KDC-X993), I figured it couldn't hurt to show you how I set up the folder/file structure on my Kenwood.

Main folder. One for music & one for test tones.

Inside the music folder is all of the artists.

Inside the artist folder (Bob Marley shown) is the albums.

Inside the album folder is the music.

Try it like this (adding a main folder) and post back up to let everyone (especially Clarion owners) know if this works for you.

Jay