I have about 2600 songs on a USB drive. How exactly to a set up the drive to play on a 2017 RX 350. On my 2016 Tacoma I just put it in and it comes up. Not so on the Lexus.

 

You will need to select "Media" and then "USB" to play the songs. Make sure they are on MP3, WMA or Wave form only.

 

I will give that a try.. Thank you..

 

Note that if you want to play all 2600 songs, you will have to split them into separate folders of ~250 songs each. The RX media player can only see up to the first 255 songs in each folder.

 

 

Does the usb search artists and other ways?
can you do say a folder structure of artist, then album folders inside?

Hope that makes sense.
I also have an old school 160g ipod classic connected, but it has disconnected a few times now. I haven’t figured out why, I remote started, ipod playing. Got in and the ipod was disconnected on the restart. That happened today.

 

From what I can see, the folders are just sorted alphabetically. It doesn't look at the metadata.

 

I believe the drive must be formatted as FAT32, not NTFS. That also means the maximum size supported is 32 GB.

The system can read metadata and you have the options of sorting through artist, album and folder.

The folders are not sorted alphabetically, but by write order. Look up a utility called "DriveSort".

 

That is correct. The max size USB is limited to 32Gb due to FAT32 formatting.

 

^^^ thanks guys

 

What's the secret to get it to read/play WAV? Does it have anything to do with the software used to rip it? Any other software settings? The USB stick size perhaps? I'd like to keep my music lossless. My car will not see WAV. It will see WMA, but won't play it.

I'll settle for WMA if the quality is 3/4 of the way to lossless wav, but my MP3 quality sucks.

 

As mentioned, the USB stick should be no larger than 32Gb and formatted with Fat32. You can use a larger size USB stick but you will need to divide it into virtual drives again no larger than 32GB and formatted with Fat32.

 

So regardless of 3rd party format software, the car won't accept/see anything larger than 32 GB partitions, and that is also affecting the car's ability to see and play specific file types/extensions? My drive is formatted as FAT32. It would have to be if the car sees it and plays music off it. Am I understanding this reply correctly?

Because even if my entire drive is formatted in FAT32 and I put a single 22MB WAV file on it, it will not see it, let alone play it. I experimented with various formats. I ripped the same three songs in WAV, WMA, MP3, FLAC, and a couple others. Those were all that was on the drive. The only format that would play was the MP3. The WMA would show up, but failed to play.

However, it's not that hard to clean the drive, partition it, and reload stuff onto it. So I'll give it a go.

 

Nope...didn't work. Still will not see WAV files. The drive has been partitioned into multiple 32 GB drives. All formatted in FAT32. Doesn't read WAV. Sees WMA, but won't play. MP3 is okay.
In a single partition of 128GB, the MP3 music played fine.

 

Update: Got WMA to play. Still wont see/play WAV. Won't see other partitions. I put music on two of the four sub-drives.