Why won't my songs play after converting them to WMA?

[aaron2003]

I recently converted some MP3 files to WMA. These files will play in one vehicle from my USB, but another vehicle will only play one-third of them. I know it's not the converter because some will play and others won't. All the other songs on my USB are also WMA and they play correctly.

 

[jsmithepa]

Car stereos are finicky on what they will do/won't do.

Play some and not others suggest organization/file structure car stereo doesn't like. How many files are we talking about? do u put them in folders? how many folders. Some car stereo are finicky over long folder/file names.

In the future I suggest load everything on your smartphone and BT it over to the car, works all the time, every time.

 

[aaron2003]

I put them all in folders exactly the same on two different USBs. It used to play them on both USBs, now after I switched them to WMA, it won't play some. Also, my car doesn't have Bluetooth. It might be 50 files.

 

[jsmithepa]

I have no immediate fix for you. Can encode MP3 high quality though, up to 320 kbit.

 

[Peter Martin]

yeah, WMA is a waste, make MP4 or MP3 and put them on the phone and BlueTooth it as mentioned.