Press “OK” and wait for iTunes to do its thing.

(This will later become the “Genre” that can be selected in the Model S Player to play our favorite songs)

In the “comments” field, enter a description for your Playlist, e.g.

Then right-click on the selection and select “Get Info” from the pulldown menu

Select all files in this Playlist (“Edit”->”Select All” from the menu).

Display a column with the contents of the “Comments” tag by right-clicking on the column header row (showing “Name”, “Time”, “Artist”, etc.) and then selecting “Comments” from the pull-down menu.

Select your first playlist that you would like to “export” to the Tesla Model S.

Set the view to display a list of Songs (Select “Songs” in the pulldown menu in the right upper corner).

Select to view “Playlists” (top menu bar in the iTunes window).

This is what we will use to “reformat” the Tags from the way Apple iTunes uses them to something that works well for the Model S music player. I’m using a SanDIsk Cruzer Fit 64GB: as it’s big enough to store my entire personal music collection. Like many on the forums, I like the low-profile form factor ones. Also here, “tweaking” to get the songs from iTunes onto the USB with the right tags is needed.Īs I converged on a good way to export songs from iTunes to the Tesla USB Player, I thought I’d summarize a “How To” here. By appending the song names with the actual artist name for that specific song on the album, no information gets lost and the chance that the Tesla Player finds the correct Album Art image (it looks for those on the internet) may be higher. Often, something like “Various Artists” is used if the Album contains a collection of songs performed by different artists. Regarding albums becoming “fragmented”, a good way to circumvent this is to make sure all songs on an album share one and the same artist name.

As the Tesla Player can organize and play songs belonging to a certain Genre, I thought this was a great idea! Some “tweaking” is needed to go from the iTunes “stars rating” to a “Favorite” Genre in the Tesla Player however. In a forum posting, I saw someone suggesting to mark your favorite songs by defining a unique “Genre” for them. I personally like to tag my favorite songs in iTunes with 4 or 5 stars and then listen to these “Top Rated” songs from a playlist, playing the songs in random order (luckily Tesla since recently supports Shuffle play). Regarding the playlist support (or lack thereof), I really wanted some kind of workaround solution for that (until Tesla comes to senses and supports real playlists). The most important ones are:Ģ) Albums becoming “fragmented” due to the Tesla player not using the “Album Artist” and “Compilation” tags to keep things organized like iTunes does. I quickly found out there are quite a few “gotchas” with Tesla’s implementation of the USB music player. I’d never used a USB stick in any of my cars before though so started browsing the internet ( !) to find the best way. Obviously, storing my music on a USB stick was the way to go. Of course you can listen through Bluetooth, however it forces you to use your phone to select songs (not recommended while driving) and compromises sound quality also. The Model S doesn’t support Apple’s iPod music USB interface.

However, when I then decided I wanted to listen to some of my own music, stored on my iPhone, reality sunk in. My first impression was more than excellent as it can play internet radio (Slacker and TuneIn)! This works great for me as I can now listen to Dutch radio stations in my car (I live in CA). No more ICE for me! One thing I had to figure out is the music player though. I apologize if this was posted somewhere else already, I could not find it.Picked up my Tesla Model S P85D 2 weeks ago.

I found this a lot faster than creating a playlist from the Driod and selecting each song one by one. Let your SD card load up then navigate to 'Playlists' in your music player and let the good times roll. Drop the m3u file(s) into directory sdcard/Music/. From your computer, navigate to your Droid's SD card.ġ1. Click '.txt' tab and scroll down to '.m3u'.ħ. If you want to move your playlists from iTunes to your droid:Ħ. I downloaded a few programs and they didn't really work very well, but I found a very, very simple solution. Not sure if this has been covered or not, but it took me a little while to figure out.

Itunes playlist export to usb