How to prepare a USB drive or SD card for Yatour
Your music is ready; now you want it on a USB drive and playing in the car. With Yatour, there is one extra step: arranging the tracks into folders that the adapter treats as discs. Here is how to get from a folder on your computer to a collection you can try in the car.
In this guide
Start with a couple of albums
Use a small selection for your first try. You can check that it works without spending the evening processing your whole library.
Have the instructions for your Yatour handy, too: drive requirements, folder names and track limits can vary with the adapter and head unit.
Give each album its own folder
Create a folder on your computer called Music, for example. Put each album or playlist in its own folder inside it.
Each one will become a CD folder in the archive, sorted by name with numbers taken into account: Album2 comes before Album10. Songs placed directly in Music get a separate CD folder after the albums.
Folders within an album are merged, so their tracks end up together.
Music/ Album2/song.mp3 Album10/song.mp3 loose.mp3 ZIP/ CD01/song.mp3 CD02/song.mp3 CD03/loose.mp3
Take a look before downloading
Choose Music on the yatour.site home page or drag it into the window. You will see the proposed CD01, CD02 and later folders.
Expand an album to see its songs and their new filenames. Uncheck anything you want to leave out.
If a file was skipped, check the reason beside it before downloading.
What happens to the songs
The site removes tags and cover art, simplifies filenames and builds the CD folders. Cyrillic names become Latin, for example, and matching names get endings such as -2 and -3.
A valid constant-bitrate MP3 (CBR) is cleaned without re-encoding. Variable-bitrate MP3 (VBR/ABR) and supported WMA files are re-encoded as constant-bitrate MP3, which can reduce quality.
Your originals stay untouched: the work happens in your browser, and your music is never uploaded.
Copy the folders to your drive
Choose “Prepare and download ZIP”, wait for it to finish and extract the archive. Open your USB drive and copy CD01, CD02 and the other CD folders onto it.
You should see them as soon as you open the drive, without an extra Music folder around them. You do not need to copy the ZIP itself.
The site does not format the drive. If your manual calls for formatting, save anything you need from the drive first.
Format a drive as FAT32: Windows and MacTry it in the car
Safely eject the drive and try the selection while parked. Once it plays, you can prepare the rest of your music.
Smaller batches are easier on your browser because the archive takes up memory. The site warns if you create more than 99 CD folders, but your adapter decides how many it can read.
The head unit may also play tracks in a different order from the one you saw on your computer.