USB with mp3s not working...

[ninjasenses]

I have some mp3s on a usb stick and every time I plug it in it waits a minute and then doesnt work. I just have the mp3s on there, do i not have the drive formatted right or something? its NTFS, im thinking about tryingFAT32 anyone else have this problem? is it the wrong file format?

[xmech2k]

Hmm, lots of possibilities. First, the USB stick can't be one of those Sandisk Cruzer. For some reason the car won't read those.

 

How did you put the MP3's on the stick? I just sync it from Windows Media Player 11, so it goes on the stick in the file system WMP uses I guess. Heck, I didn't even think there was NTFS or FAT32 on memory sticks...

[ninjasenses]

Hmm, lots of possibilities. First, the USB stick can't be one of those Sandisk Cruzer. For some reason the car won't read those.

 

How did you put the MP3's on the stick? I just sync it from Windows Media Player 11, so it goes on the stick in the file system WMP uses I guess. Heck, I didn't even think there was NTFS or FAT32 on memory sticks...

 

Sandisk cruszer come with pre-installed bloatware(all the stuff that pops up when you plug it in), if you dont reformat it, sync wont be able to recognize it. I just dragged and dropped the mp3s into the drive, and NTFS is the standard windows file system now, infact if your usb stick isnt formatted with either one of those, it wont work on your windows system at all. I would assume sync is able to recognize NTFS since it is newer but there is a possibility it will recognize FAT32. Anyways I tried my sisters ipod and it worked fine...ill just keep troubleshooting...

[twduffy]

Sandisk cruszer come with pre-installed bloatware(all the stuff that pops up when you plug it in), if you dont reformat it, sync wont be able to recognize it. I just dragged and dropped the mp3s into the drive, and NTFS is the standard windows file system now, infact if your usb stick isnt formatted with either one of those, it wont work on your windows system at all. I would assume sync is able to recognize NTFS since it is newer but there is a possibility it will recognize FAT32. Anyways I tried my sisters ipod and it worked fine...ill just keep troubleshooting...

 

 

NTFS is not supported, only FAT 16 or FAT 32.

[tbrown4]

I've got several SanDisk Cruzer type USB flash drives and they all worked fine after I did a complete format of them. You have to format and delete the read-only partition that comes "factory" standard on the drive....this gets get of the U3 system which auto-plays on a computer and prevents the drive from working with SYNC.

 

If yours isn't a SanDisk....just try a fresh formatting of the drive and re-load your media. Sometimes file systems get corrupted and become unreadable.

[Moosehead]

I've found Sync can have trouble with very long path names (many nested folders and/or long file names) as well as with files with weird characters in the ID3 tags (these are the tags embedded by music library software like Itunes, Windows Media Player etc etc etc that fill in metadata fields like Artist, Album, Title and so on. Or even with improperly written ID3 tags, i.e. done by programs that don't follow the spec the same way Ford/Microsoft wants it to.

 

I had to fix a bunch of my songs when I bought my car, by importing them into another music program and re-writing all this metadata.

Edited July 20, 2010 by Moosehead