I have all my music stored on a NAS. When trying to add music to my 645M GC only sees my C: drive and not any of my network drives. Is there anyway to get GC to see my network drives?
Garmin Express is unable to look for music stored on external or network drives. The music will need to be stored locally in your preferred media management program.
If using iTunes on a Windows PC you will need to export the playlist and store it in your music folder so that GE can see it. More information here. There is currently a Garmin Express issue where some of the playlist files might display and error. The Garmin Express team is aware of the issue and the fix has been determined and will be included in the next GE update.
Narmeen We will need more specific information regarding your experience. We encourage you to reach out to Product Support for direct assistance and investigation (phone, email, or chat) or call if you can. The teams will want to know as much information as possible such as:
Windows or Mac: Computer version: Garmin Express version: What format is the music stored in on iTunes: Any errors or screenshots from Garmin Express showing what you see:
This information will allow this to be investigated further.
Garmin-Joey thanks you your answer. Can you say if support for external/network drives will be included in a future release of GC? Does Garmin have an official channel for requesting new features?
I know the question has been brought up, but not sure if a decision has been made at this time. The best place to send any type of feature request www.garmin.com/ideas.
Note that the 645 presents itself as an MTP device. So you can just ignore Garmin Connect and itunes and copy music onto it. I'm a *nix user, and I despise iTunes. I copied one album onto my watch using iTunes / Garmin Connect to figure out the file layout, and then I copied the rest directly on my linux server using jmtpfs. The layout seems to be Media/Artist/Album/Song.mp3, to say others the trouble of using iTunes / Garmin Connect.
For an example of using jmtpfs on Ubuntu Linux:
Last login: Mon Mar 12 15:01:53 2018 from 172.31.248.1
drewg123@vm1:~$ sudo apt-get install jmtpfs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: jmtpfs 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/39.3 kB of archives. After this operation, 153 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package jmtpfs. (Reading database ... 436514 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../jmtpfs_0.5-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking jmtpfs (0.5-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up jmtpfs (0.5-2) ...
drewg123@vm1:~$ jmtpfs ~/mnt Device 0 (VID=091e and PID=4b48) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.10. Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team drewg123@vm1:~$ ls ~/mnt/ Media Primary drewg123@vm1:~$ ls ~/mnt/Media/ Audiobooks Charli XCX Dua Lipa GARMIN Icona Pop Iggy Azalea Marina and the Diamonds Podcasts drewg123@vm1:~$ ls ~/mnt/Media/Dua\ Lipa/ Dua Lipa drewg123@vm1:~$ ls ~/mnt/Media/Marina\ and\ the\ Diamonds/ Electra Heart [Bonus Track] Froot drewg123@vm1:~$ ls ~/mnt/Media/Marina\ and\ the\ Diamonds/Froot 01 Happy 1.mp3 03 I'm a Ruin.mp3 06 Gold.mp3 09 Better Than That.mp3 12 Immortal 1.mp3 01 Happy.mp3 04 Blue.mp3 07 Can't Pin Me Down 1.mp3 10 Weeds 1.mp3 12 Immortal.mp3 02 Froot 1.mp3 05 Forget 1.mp3 07 Can't Pin Me Down.mp3 10 Weeds.mp3 02 Froot.mp3 05 Forget.mp3 08 Solitaire.mp3 11 Savages 1.mp3 03 I'm a Ruin 1.mp3 06 Gold 1.mp3 09 Better Than That 1.mp3 11 Savages.mp3
drewg123@vm1:~$ mkdir ~/mnt/Media/Some\ Artist # # To manually copy an album, make sure to make a directory for the artist, then # copy the Album and its contents # drewg123@vm1:~$ cp -Rp ~/Music/Some\ Artist/Some\ Album ~/mnt/Media/Some\ Artist/ drewg123@vm1:~$ fusermount -u ~/mnt
Garmin Express is unable to look for music stored on external or network drives. The music will need to be stored locally in your preferred media management program.
If using iTunes on a Windows PC you will need to export the playlist and store it in your music folder so that GE can see it. More information here. There is currently a Garmin Express issue where some of the playlist files might display and error. The Garmin Express team is aware of the issue and the fix has been determined and will be included in the next GE update.
Hello,
Could you please provide us a list of known "preferred media management program" with which Garmin Connect is compatible please ?
All I have read everywhere is based on only one program named iTunes.
It’s an MTP device so can be made to work with quite a few programs, eg Foobar2000, Windows Media Player etc. Or you can just drag mp3s directly to the watch.
I don't know what is a "MTP device" bro, but you've just answered the last question who was stopping me from buyinh this watch !
I'm so excited now :D:D:D:D
It’s an MTP device so can be made to work with quite a few programs, eg Foobar2000, Windows Media Player etc. Or you can just drag mp3s directly to the watch.
Note that the 645 presents itself as an MTP device. So you can just ignore Garmin Connect and itunes and copy music onto it. I'm a *nix user, and I despise iTunes. I copied one album onto my watch using iTunes / Garmin Connect to figure out the file layout, and then I copied the rest directly on my linux server using jmtpfs. The layout seems to be Media/Artist/Album/Song.mp3, to say others the trouble of using iTunes / Garmin Connect.
I realise that this is an old post, but it is among the most helpful things I've found on this forum. I have one question and one comment:
1. Any idea how/where to copy album art? 2. I'm pretty sure that you can put music in /Media/Music/Artist/Album/Song.mp3. It leaves the top level looking a bit cleaner.
