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Anyone know what the largest size Flash drive the U-Connect radios (specifically the 5") can handle is?
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I have been using a 64GB flash drive for about 9 months now without any real issues. I had to force my computer to use the FAT32 format...that's the only one that will work with Uconnect on flash drives greater than 32GB. About 7 out of 10 start ups I do get a 2-3 second pause in my music. I just assume it's because of the size of the flash drive.
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I use a 200Gb memory chip in my phone which is loaded with MP3's and I also use the USB. Combine that with Sirius and local stations, and it's a rolling jukebox.
I remember when Napster first hit the net. My brother told me about it and I was one of maybe just a few thousand using it the first few months and it was hit or miss to get the tunes you wanted sometimes, then it just exploded and I was like Awww yeah, here we go! Good times man, good times.
How would I put songs on that flash drive when I use iTunes to take control of all my music? Can you like, take a flash drive, poke it in the side of your laptop, open iTunes and sync that flash drive just like you would an iPod? That would be cool if you could. Or ****, I guess that since my old iPod classic is still good, I wonder if I could just plug that into my laptop, update it to all my current songs with iTunes and just leave that plugged into the USB port in my truck… Play my music from it and just use the Bluetooth connection to my truck from my iPhone just for making phone calls.
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As long as you can use a format that the uconnect system can read. I know mp3, and wma(mostly) work. Not sure about AACHow would I put songs on that flash drive when I use iTunes to take control of all my music? Can you like, take a flash drive, poke it in the side of your laptop, open iTunes and sync that flash drive just like you would an iPod? That would be cool if you could. Or ****, I guess that since my old iPod classic is still good, I wonder if I could just plug that into my laptop, update it to all my current songs with iTunes and just leave that plugged into the USB port in my truck… Play my music from it and just use the Bluetooth connection to my truck from my iPhone just for making phone calls.
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I've use voice commands to play individual songs, and artist's with just under 7000 total tracks. But haven't tested genre'sI have a 2018 Laramie with the larger screen and can tell you I use a SanDisk Ultra Fit 3.1 USB drive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077VXV323/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and I have previously used SanDisk 3.0 drives that was also 32gb. Currently mine has 125 directories and a total of 3345 music files in .Mp3 format. I believe they will also take a 64Gb drive also but for sure any good brand of 32Gb should work. And you can have up to 9999 directories. The issue is that you can only have 3200 .Mp3 files in total. So as I said I have 3345 which is over the limit and what has happened is that mine still plays them all fine but when I use the voice command to give a command such as "Play Folder Rock Classic" it pops up and ask me to choose between "1. Rock - Classic" and "2. Rock - Classic", which is odd because they are identically named. It's odd it ask me to choose, there is only ONE folder called ROCK - CLASSIC on my drive. If I choose 1 it may play but may give me the error "File Limit Exceeded for Voice Commands", but I can try again and choose 2 and it will work fine, or it may be the other way around, 1 may work but 2 may give me the error. So, for some reason going over this 3200 maximum .Mp3 file limit has confused it. Though if I use the BROWSE button everything looks fine. And again, the voice command does work, but I have to go through this extra step and may get the error if I choose the wrong number. It's kinda odd you can have up to 9999 directories but can't have over 3200 music files all total. I believe that the picture files have the same limitation. Anyway with a 32Gb drive and 3345 high-quality Mp3 music files which total about 20.3Gb and on my 32Gb that means it still has about 8.78Gb free (keep in mind a 32Gb USB drive really only has about 28.6Gb that is usable). So I think a 32Gb will be plenty large for most anyone and if your like me and have a very large and diverse music collection you will have an issue with the maximum number of music files before you run out of space.
As long as you can use a format that the uconnect system can read. I know mp3, and wma(mostly) work. Not sure about AAC
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Same here, I am really fond of seeing the album art. One drawback I found is that I can't use my normal high resolution images from my PC. Had to downsize them to 400 x 400 /522 x 512. If they are too large in resolution/size they won't load.One reason I like usb most is it shows album art on radio screen, using phone it doesn't show. There is free app on play store you called album art changer, any songs on phone, you go into app, shows all music files and lets you select what you want to use as the art. Takes like 5 seconds to change or add own art, then the art is embedded in the song. Works great.