Sony AX7000 is all new to me, so finding my way, early days...

first thing I had to do was MP3 all my m4a content (I use a Mac in my day job, but speak Windows as a second language)

32GB flash is formatted as FAT32

the Sony throws up A CANT PLAY CONTENT message fairly often, and now I see why... anyone know why I have the period underscore file name version for every track name?

can I delete them?

TiA

 

Did you buy these songs off of iTunes? Sometimes when you buy music on iTunes it automatically puts a backup on the cloud, which is also populated in the album folder, so if you drag a complete album there it will drag these also. Those files will not play. That's the first thing that comes to mind. I fought with this kind of thing for a while, which is why I just use an iPod for all my music on the bikes. Saves me a lot of frustration.

 

not to answer my own question, but this might be useful to others with a Sony and content that does not play, copied from a Mac:

"Dot underscore files are Mac system files. They are the result of storing your files on a hard drive partition that does not support extended file attributes. They have likely always been there on your Mac, but since they are OS X system files, they were hidden. Windows just sees them as regular files so it doesn't hide them."

T98 yes my original music tool of choice was iTunes, so I simply drag out the content of my ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music to various size FAT32 formatted flash drives.
The 6.5 inFRUSTRATION system didn't used to query these hidden files it would seem, but the Sony does. Using an iPod isnt an option as I carry a droid phone and really dont want an iPod left in the bike.

So one solution will be to recopy the music flash drive from Mac to peecee and back to a FAT32 flash drive, created on the windows side of the fence ...thus removing the hidden mac files.

 

and for anyone who wants to remove them easy with a Mac:...just cleaned up my 32GB flash drive in a few mins!