Flash drive not playing in car audio system

MP3 music downloaded on to a SanDisk Ultra 32G 3.0 flash drive (recommended by Vauxhall) does not play in the car audio system. Being new and under warranty, I took this issue to a Vauxhall dealership. Fault finding revealed nothing wrong with the car audio system. However, when the technician downloaded music from my flash drive on to their computer then downloaded from their computer to their identical flash drive it played in the car audio system. It appears the car audio system does not like anything downloaded from my Mac. Any ideas how I can get my music to play in the car?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Aug 31, 2023 11:17 PM

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Posted on Sep 3, 2023 11:28 PM

As you obviously understand this and I have no idea here is the result:

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DOT_CLEAN(1)              BSD General Commands Manual             DOT_CLEAN(1)

NAME

     dot_clean -- Merge ._* files with corresponding native files.

SYNOPSIS

     dot_clean [-fmnsv] [--keep=[mostrecent|dotbar|native]] [dir ...]

DESCRIPTION

     For each dir, dot_clean recursively merges all ._* files with their cor-

     responding native files according to the rules specified with the given

     arguments.  By default, if there is an attribute on the native file that

     is also present in the ._ file, the most recent attribute will be used.

     If no operands are given, a usage message is output.  If more than one

     directory is given, directories are merged in the order in which they are

     specified.

OPTIONS

     -f      Flat merge.  Do not recursively merge all directories in the

             given dir.  This is off by default.

     -h      Help. Prints verbose usage message.

     -m      Always delete dot underbar files.

     -n      Delete dot underbar file if there is no matching native file.

     -s      Follow symbolic links.  This will follow symbolic dot underbar

             files when they are found.

     -v      Print verbose output.

     --keep=mostrecent

             The default option.  If an attribute is associated with a data

             fork, use that.  Otherwise, use information stored in the Apple-

             Double file.  Note that the native fork's data is preferred even

             if the data in the AppleDouble file is newer.

     --keep=dotbar

             Always use information stored in the AppleDouble file, replacing

             any extended attributes associated with the native file.

     --keep=native

             Always use the information associated with the data fork, ignor-

             ing any AppleDouble files.

EXAMPLES

     The following is how to do an dot_clean merge on the mounted volume test,

     always using the dot underbar information.

           dot_clean --keep=dotbar /Volumes/test

DIAGNOSTICS

     The dot_clean utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

BUGS

     None known.

BSD                              Sept 27, 2012                             BSD

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Sep 4, 2023 5:37 AM in response to Servant of Cats

How do I jump to the conclusion that making things work is impossible? Very simple as I have done exactly, EXACTLY, what people replying to my post have told me to do and the problem still exists. You are correct in that I haven't demonstrated that the .fseventd, .Spotlight-V100, and .Trashes directories are the problem simply because I don't know what the problem is and they are the only thing on the drive other than the MP3 files that are the music. The car happily play the music placed on it from a Windows computer. We can do without the accusations. I need solutions.

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