halperin45

I formatted my USB thumb drive. Its a Fat 32 drive. I dragged a bunch of .mp3s onto it, plugged it into the USB port in the car and it says that it recognized the usb but gives me some error, not sure exact words, but essentially it says something like "No Valid Music Files Detected"


Anyone successfully play music from their usb? or have had this error before? Thanks!

kcheves

Are the songs recognized when the same thumb drive is inserted into a different device?

halperin45

i dont have any other devices that plays directly off a usb, but my computer recognizes and plays them from the drive

kcheves

You may be bumping up against the folder/file limitations. From the PCM 3.0 manual:

�� Notes on the media supported
To avoid problems when playing your USB
devices, please observe the following notes:
– Permissible media:
USB mass storage device
USB MP3 player (to MTP standard)
– Permissible file systems:
USB devices with the file systems FAT 16 and
FAT 32 are supported.
– Permissible USB standards:
USB devices as per the USB 2.0 specifications
are supported.
– Permissible file structures:
The maximum number of tracks per USB
device is 10,000.
A USB device may hold a maximum of 2,000
folders in total.
Each folder in turn may contain a maximum of
1,000 tracks.
The maximum directory depth is 11 levels.
Up to 8 partitions are supported.

F308gt4

Check out my post (#3) in the following thread. Also see post #9 in the thread. You may need to "convert" your .mp3 files into .mp3 files...

https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...ot-others.html

max540i

BTW, FWIW, this conversion can also be performed using ITunes