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Shuffle Fail: Fixing my car stereo with code!

James Turner on December 28, 2018

Background I have a 40-ish minute commute to work and love blasting music in my car (sorry if you were in the car next to me). I bought ...
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Yeah, the title is a little disingenuous. While it would totally be interesting to work out how to modify the embedded code (and maybe I will at some point just for fun), what I came up with got me close enough to my goal that I didn't try to pursue other options.

Hopefully it was a somewhat interesting article nonetheless 🙂

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Nope, I didn't consider doing that though it would be a lot more efficient! My method does take a several minutes to run currently where really I am only wanting to shuffle my music and sync any new music to it.

I haven't tried to play with a file system at a lower level like that before though now that you've brought it up, the thought does intrigue me and maybe I'll do a followup post if I do it. :)