I’m talking about flacs and pioneer stereo from 2015, which don’t seem to have been updated since except cosmetically.
> Five minute drive? No music because the stereo takes six minutes to sort the files on startup.
With FLACs, you'd have even fewer files in 64GiB, so sorting a full list should be even quicker — Raspberry Pi HW (any generation) would do that instantly for all intents and purposes.
It’s more likely poor programming than lack of cpu power. I personally prefer filename sorting rather than metedata sorting for this reason.
There’s very expensive stereos that might do it but they tend to come with Android etc, and those companies don’t want you to be self-sufficient.