Are There Any Limitations on USB Device?
You used an SSD in your car? That's like carpet bombing a town to kill one enemy.
Also FAT32 max filesize is 4GB.
Shouldnt use such large drives in the car USB slot, its not really meant to carry or play your entire MP3 collection. Just make sure its USB 3.0 and anywhere from 4GB-64GB. Even when testing the USB 2.0 drive the files took 2-3 full seconds, and increased the faster you went, which might not seem like along time but its an eternity in a car.
hope this helps
MEAHT
Also FAT32 max filesize is 4GB.
Shouldnt use such large drives in the car USB slot, its not really meant to carry or play your entire MP3 collection. Just make sure its USB 3.0 and anywhere from 4GB-64GB. Even when testing the USB 2.0 drive the files took 2-3 full seconds, and increased the faster you went, which might not seem like along time but its an eternity in a car.
hope this helps
MEAHT
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I have successfully created a USB stick (16 GB, fat32) and it works.
I copied the folder structure straight out of my iTunes library, and thus, I have:
(I would like to keep the structure consistent with iTunes so I can update the structure easily in the future).
In the car, the 'artist' and 'album' views are fine, but the folder view shows the album level folders (these being the folders that contain song files), but in an odd order; not based on alpha sorting, not based on timestamp ... folders 1-8 are actually albums associated with artists beginning with the letter 'J', then starting at folder 9, the albums seem to follow the order of the artist name in alpha order, but not by any means consistently. It seems like the folder view presents only the lowest level of folders that directly contain songs, ignoring any folders that contain nested folders.
What I would like is to have the folder view be 'playlist' oriented - 'my music', 'girlfriends music', 'classical music' ... etc. But I presume in order to achieve that I would need to restructure everything so I had these named folders directly containing the associated songs, thereby losing the current structure of artist and album. The artist and album views of the car player are still going to work, but I'd lose the easy correlation to my iTunes library.
I copied the folder structure straight out of my iTunes library, and thus, I have:
Code:
Artist-1 -----Album-1 ---------Track-1 ---------Track-2 ---------Track-3 ---------(etc) -----Album-2 Artist-2 -----Album-1 Artist-3 -----Album-1 Artist-4 -----Album-1 -----Album-2 -----Album-3 Artist-5 (etc)
In the car, the 'artist' and 'album' views are fine, but the folder view shows the album level folders (these being the folders that contain song files), but in an odd order; not based on alpha sorting, not based on timestamp ... folders 1-8 are actually albums associated with artists beginning with the letter 'J', then starting at folder 9, the albums seem to follow the order of the artist name in alpha order, but not by any means consistently. It seems like the folder view presents only the lowest level of folders that directly contain songs, ignoring any folders that contain nested folders.
What I would like is to have the folder view be 'playlist' oriented - 'my music', 'girlfriends music', 'classical music' ... etc. But I presume in order to achieve that I would need to restructure everything so I had these named folders directly containing the associated songs, thereby losing the current structure of artist and album. The artist and album views of the car player are still going to work, but I'd lose the easy correlation to my iTunes library.
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I have a 2015 Sandisk 128 GB USB thumb drive.
Previously it was fine.
Recently, I added another three mp3 tracks, and now all of a sudden - the 4GS no longer can see any mp3 tracks on the Sandisk thumb drive.
There is only about 300 MB of music on the thumb drive.
The thumb drive still works on the PC fine.
I reformatted the Sandisk 128 GB USB thumb drive.
I use Windows 10 Professional 64 bit.
It was reformatted in exFAT.
It was a quick format that took only a few seconds.
Then I copy and paste 300 MB worth of tracks, but the 4GS still cannot see any tracks on the Sandisk thumb drive.
When I use an old 14 year old 2004 4 GB USB stick, the mp3 tracks play fine.
Has anyone experienced this, or found a way around it???
Previously it was fine.
Recently, I added another three mp3 tracks, and now all of a sudden - the 4GS no longer can see any mp3 tracks on the Sandisk thumb drive.
There is only about 300 MB of music on the thumb drive.
The thumb drive still works on the PC fine.
I reformatted the Sandisk 128 GB USB thumb drive.
I use Windows 10 Professional 64 bit.
It was reformatted in exFAT.
It was a quick format that took only a few seconds.
Then I copy and paste 300 MB worth of tracks, but the 4GS still cannot see any tracks on the Sandisk thumb drive.
When I use an old 14 year old 2004 4 GB USB stick, the mp3 tracks play fine.
Has anyone experienced this, or found a way around it???
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