Infotainment Issue on Playlists

[Classic-Chevy-Guy]

I am very disappointed by the Infotainment system in the 2025 Equinox.

On my 6 Corvettes from 2011 thru 2023, a 2024 Camaro, and a 2019 Equinox, I have a Thumb Drive with songs contained in folders. It works great

The new system on the 2025 Equinox does not support Folders but supports Playlists.

So I needed to convert all my Folders to Playlists.

Now, when I find the Playlist that I want to hear, I go merrily down the road and get to my destination, and Park the car and turn off the vehicle.

When I get back into the vehicle and start the engine, the Infotainment systems shows "Indexing" and then it starts playing a random song.

I would have thought the Infotainment system would have started where it left off.

Are there others which have the same issue and is there a solution to this issue?

Thanks

 

[Lazy Bones]

The ramdon selection is common. How do I create a "playlist" vs folders?

 

[Classic-Chevy-Guy]

You need to move all your songs to the thumb drive. You need to select the songs for windows media player and create a playlist and save it. Once saved, you need to move the playlist to the thumb drive.

 

[electricdiver]

On my '13 Volt playlists on a thumbdrive worked great. Play the list, stop, get out & do whatever, start the vehicle and the playlist started right where it left off. My '19 Equinox the playlist starts fine but the next time you start the vehicle the list is "empty"; go to a different list and that one plays fine. Start the vehicle again, the 2nd list is "empty" but the 1st list is playable again. Can demonstrate without fail to the dealer and they say there must be a problem with the drive. It's the EXACT SAME DRIVE I used in the Volt!

In my '24 EquinoxEV (traded the Volt) with the GoogleOS all the songs on the drive get sorted alphabetically into a "default playlist" which will start everytime the usb is selected as the source. My custom playlists will index and play fine, but the next time the vehicle starts the song that was playing will finish and the next song played will be the 'next' song in the default list. The system always wants to go back to the 'default' list. Plus, the system 'limits scrolling while driving' so if you want to get to the middle of a 100 song playlist you need to hope for a long stoplight so you can 'scroll'. Same behavior if I select a specific album - album plays in order but the next time the vehicle is started the next song played is from the default list.

What method are you using to move the playlist from windows media player to the drive? Typically I use SyncPlaylist. Not sure if there are other tried&true methods or not; I've had mixed results trying other things so I keep going back to the syncplaylist utiity.

 

[Lazy Bones]

I was just using folders on my flash drive, and of course I had all those problems because Chevy can’t handle that sword format. So I did the playlist thing, and I hate it. For some of my albums it shows I only have one or two songs. They are actually between 12 and 15. I can select an album and it will start to play it, often it will play right on through that album. Then it selects whatever album it thinks is the flavor of the day and starts playing that one. And the next time I get in the car, I have no idea on God‘s green earth. What number is gonna play this time. I tell you Google should ask Honda how they did it because Honda did it right.