Hello,
I'm the new, proud owner of a 2013 Explorer with MFT. During my research, I've lurked in these forums for quite some time and have taken in a lot of information about the ups and downs with people's systems.
I, too, am now experiencing the rollercoaster ride of the experience with MFT. On one car ride, nothing goes wrong. On another car ride, strange things occur.
Please bear with me while I talk about one of the strange things... I performed a search for this topic, but I couldn't find any posts with my exact question.
I leave a 64 GB iPod Touch in the Explorer. When I first connected the Touch, it built the index and the voice commands, and after about twenty minutes, I was using my voice to play song after song, and it was awesome!
The Touch can access my wi-fi network in my garage and also synchronizes with my Mac iTunes. I bought a couple of songs on my Mac and synched to my Touch while the Explorer was off.
When I fired up the Explorer, I saw the "Indexing" and thought, "No problem. It's indexing the new songs." That's what you would expect, right? Then, it went to "Building Voice Commands", and it has been churning on that for quite some time, much longer than it did initially. I have a long commute to work (~1 hour), and it still wasn't finished. Moreover, the rest of the system was a bit sluggish. When I headed out for lunch, I saw the same message. As you can imagine, I can't do the voice commands for songs while it's working on the index, and the sluggishness is a bit annoying.
I've been hesitant to unplug the iPod, fearing that that would corrupt the index or something.
Here's the question. Does it start over the indexing every time I power off the vehicle, or does each drive get me closer to having everything indexed? I may obviously have to rethink my music strategy if I'm never able to get fully indexed whenever I add a new song.
Thanks for reading about my minor, little problem. Any insight would be incredibly helpful.
Ray.
I'm the new, proud owner of a 2013 Explorer with MFT. During my research, I've lurked in these forums for quite some time and have taken in a lot of information about the ups and downs with people's systems.
I, too, am now experiencing the rollercoaster ride of the experience with MFT. On one car ride, nothing goes wrong. On another car ride, strange things occur.
Please bear with me while I talk about one of the strange things... I performed a search for this topic, but I couldn't find any posts with my exact question.
I leave a 64 GB iPod Touch in the Explorer. When I first connected the Touch, it built the index and the voice commands, and after about twenty minutes, I was using my voice to play song after song, and it was awesome!
The Touch can access my wi-fi network in my garage and also synchronizes with my Mac iTunes. I bought a couple of songs on my Mac and synched to my Touch while the Explorer was off.
When I fired up the Explorer, I saw the "Indexing" and thought, "No problem. It's indexing the new songs." That's what you would expect, right? Then, it went to "Building Voice Commands", and it has been churning on that for quite some time, much longer than it did initially. I have a long commute to work (~1 hour), and it still wasn't finished. Moreover, the rest of the system was a bit sluggish. When I headed out for lunch, I saw the same message. As you can imagine, I can't do the voice commands for songs while it's working on the index, and the sluggishness is a bit annoying.
I've been hesitant to unplug the iPod, fearing that that would corrupt the index or something.
Here's the question. Does it start over the indexing every time I power off the vehicle, or does each drive get me closer to having everything indexed? I may obviously have to rethink my music strategy if I'm never able to get fully indexed whenever I add a new song.
Thanks for reading about my minor, little problem. Any insight would be incredibly helpful.
Ray.