# Creating playlist for car audio **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-for-car-audio/70659 **Category:** Support **Tags:** player **Created:** [February 9, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-for-car-audio/70659 "2026-02-09T18:12:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino) #### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-for-car-audio/70659/12 "2026-02-09T20:21:30Z")
The way I see it: playing by folder limits the available tracks to the files in a folder. If that is not the desired way, it would be another approach to check if the player also interprets tag data (filenames are not really tags). A good way would be to fill the tag fields ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE and TRACK. If you could check how files behave with this metadata, it would be easier to adapt the data to make it play you want it. See also this thread about problems with a car stereo: > [@Need Help Saving Changed order for car USB](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-saving-changed-order-for-car-usb/61402): > > Hi Everyone, New to forum, first post. I have about 2000 .mp3 files that I want to put on a USB drive to play in the car. The USB in the car can support 1000 folders and 5000 files. I take that to mean 5000 per folder. I put all the files on the USB drive and opened them in MP3TAG. So far so good.I didn't want to play them in the order they were list in the directory so I used the random file tab then the auto numbering wizard. Again, so far so good. How do I save all of this so that files now p… Or this one for different sorting options in a player (not necessarily features of your player) > [@Car not playing in sequence from SD card](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/car-not-playing-in-sequence-from-sd-card/67116/6): > > This would be the ideal scenario. Unfortunately the Windows environment doesn't always behave that way. It boils down to the FAT32 table and is not dependably managed this way. Other than software like the above options resorting to a refresh of the table contents after the files have been written, the only other way is to manually manage the write order by individually copying each file one at a time, in the order you wish. It would be so much better if these basic car radio designs would at … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-playlist-for-car-audio/70659)._