USB for music

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Jendsley06

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So, I have had my 1500 Express for a few months short of 2 years. I tried once at some point to connect a USB drive for listening to music but it didn't work. I don't remember what format it was. I had a pioneer aftermarket radio in a van recently and it required a specific format of the flash drive to see the folders, etc. I never got it to work either. Anyway, I haven't found anything in the manuals, or online to say what I need to do to make it work. Is there a specific file type, a specific format of the drive? What do I need to do to make one work? I do know that when my wife or daughter plug in their iPhones to it, it really wants to play music from them, but my Android, it acts like it's not even there. Any advice would be helpful. Not losing sleep over it, just curious as to what will work.
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Curious too
I have my music on a flash drive and mine works fine.
Don't what format I used, I just dragged my songs from the computer to one.
I am a PC retard, so sorry I cant really help.
 

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My experience with the stock USB & head unit is that:

1. The USB stick must be formatted in FAT32. Most come formatted differently. There are free online utilities that will reformat USB drives to FAT32

2. MP3 files work best. Some Apple formats will also work. Hi-rez FLAC won't work.

3. Do not load folders onto the USB drive. For some reason it won't read the file type associated with a folder. Load single song files only.
 

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I have a 32 gb thumb drive and it's formatted to the Fat 32 file system. The songs are all MP3 format at 192 kbps. The sound is great on the 8.4. The only issue I have is every once in a while when I start the truck the drive is not recognized. I just remove it and put it in the other USB slot and bingo all is good. I have tried different makes of drives but the same thing happens. Not a big deal but it is an annoyance.
 

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yeah. if i remember correctly it needs to be FAT32
 
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Thanks for the replies. I will format a USB to fat32 and drag some music to it and try when I get a couple of days off. Maybe my problem before was that I had the music in folders.
 

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You have to format the drive to be FAT32. Windows generally formats the drive in NTFS which has folder and file permissions for security and you can't add the head unit to the permissions and the head unit does not have the coding to understand the permissions. Also, FAT32 does have partition size limitations so you may not be able to use the entire storage size of the drive.
 

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^^^^^^^^^^^^ FAT 32 formatted and MP3 best
 

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I'm using a SanDisk 32GB Fit USB Flash Drive with over 1800 songs, all in folders. My radio sees the folders and I can select and play. The USB is FAT32 formatted
 
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I'm using a SanDisk 32GB Fit USB Flash Drive with over 1800 songs, all in folders. My radio sees the folders and I can select and play. The USB is FAT32 formatted

I'm using a 64 GB san disk, i never formatted it so unsure if its in FAT32.

My truck will not play lossless files.
All of my music is in folders and have no issues playing them
all mp3 in 320khz play just fine.
 

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Does your uconnect remember the song sequence of what was previously played key cycle on/off?

My shuffle does not work and resets everytime I restart the truck. At one point it worked, then it just stopped. I have never created a playlist but I have my music broken down into folders by artists and genre.
 

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Does your uconnect remember the song sequence of what was previously played key cycle on/off?

My shuffle does not work and resets everytime I restart the truck. At one point it worked, then it just stopped. I have never created a playlist but I have my music broken down into folders by artists and genre.


It seems to start over every time the truck is turned off
 
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