Problem with Music Files on USB Drives

For years I have had a USB stick in my car loaded with mp3 files which worked perfectly. A couple of days ago I refreshed this USB drive with some new music using Finder on an Apple Silicone MBP and all heck broke loose. I erased the drive using Disk Utility and then copied the mp3s to the drive using Finder. Lo and behold the car then started to "say" that every other file was unplayable. I tried the stick on a music system at home, same issue, every other file unplayable. I then tried a different USB drive, same issue. Long story but the problem is that macOS places a duplicate named copy of every file in the USB drive with the prefix ._ and the extension .mp3 (even though they are not mp3s) and to make matters worse the files are hidden in macOS. Command + Shift + . will NOT show the hidden files on a Mac however (thanks for Windows) two Windows PCs, one W10 and the other W11, both display the hidden files. So there are hidden files on a Mac that that are not visible even if I do the Command + Shift + . Not good!!!

I cannot take a screenshot of these files on the Mac as the files do not show. However I took a screenshot on much maligned Windows and they can be seen below. These appear for every single album that I have copied so deleting them manually would not work as I have hundreds. And please note that this was not an issue in the past but I don't recall when I last refreshed that USB drive, it's been awhile. My research shows that this has been going on for awhile but it had not bitten me yet.

So is there something I can do while copying to avoid corrupting my USB drives with these hidden mac files that play havoc on other systems, cars, home stereos, etc?

As an example, using a Windows computer to display an album one can see 11 hidden files (not visible on a Mac even with hidden files "showing"), all mp3s, all 4KBs, and somehow placed there by macOS after copying the real 11 music files. The cars and the home stereos try to play these files but are unable and display an error. Any ideas on how to avoid this? I found an app called BlueHarvest that removes these files, the issue is know, is that the only way?

I tried running a batch file on a USB drive in W11 in an attempt to delete these files but was unsuccessful. Here is what I tried:

D:

cd D:\

del /s /q ._*.*

Thanks for any help.