Help.. Storing CD songs on USB Zip Drive.

In the meantime, I will try and load some songs on a USB and see if I can get it to play.

Only problem is it will be in a 200 LC not a 150 but I think the run the same audio

Cheers

Anthony

Firstly a USB drive is not the same as a Zip Drive which used discs and normally got the rattle of death in a short time.

Some call USB drives Zips I guess but they are quite often called PEN drives or USB stick drives.

Up to 32 gig they can be formatted in either NTFS or Fat32 which is the normal way.
Above that they are EXFat which is different and can be a problem if device only reads Fat32. They are not normally encrypted unless you do it yourself.

You can format a 64G pen drive in Fat32 by using various software programs, one being GUI format. I use one in a dashcam which can only read Fat32 and had to reformat the 64G card with the above program.

It now works properly.

I have a 32 g SD card in my car stereo and it has 6,000 tracks on it and uses less than 18gb so you would never need a 64g USB Stick unless you were going to travel nonstop for the rest of your life LOL

Yes Tom you are correct.

I am assuming Trev is trying to use a USB Pen/Stick not a Zip drive.

Problem may be that 64gig is to large for the stereo to read. It worked for me in the 200 but I was using an 8 gig.

Cheers

Anthony

Spot on Anthony. Size, speed and protocol compatibility can sometimes be a real embuggerance. Maybe he purchased a USB 3 device that is not backwards compatible etc.

And then lets not get started on inaccuracy in describing things, formal or professional or common "nick" names and acronyms. Yuk!!

We use an old Walkman and simply plug it into the USB cable of our VMS in-dash unit. The usb cable is in the clove box. I think that we have 3 days non stop (daylight hours) mixed music on it and the VMS plays it in random order. They are all MP3 files. No conversion etc.

USB 3.0 stick drives are backwardly compatible with USB 2.0 devices.

I have several and they all work with all of my gear of up to 7 year old laptops etc

It does make it easier when working with computers if the correct terminology is used as there are lots of different peripherals that have come and gone.

Hard to diagnose a problem if a person is referring to something different than what they may mean.


Have had to fix a lot of "Funny blackboxes" LOL

The device (radio) may note be able to read a 64 gig its max maybe only 32 gig

To GU Patrol I did say that and why in followup 2 above.

If you format it in a certain way you can fool it into accepting it
(usually)

In some cases older units wont even read more than 8gig.

I agree with Bigfish, try a 4 or 8GB and see if that works.

MP3 is the correct way to save/rip the songs.

Dont know about the Toyota but my VW says to do similar but I just loaded the 6000 tracks straight onto the card and they play fine. Can run them in random mode and most names and artists appear as well.

I think its a formatting problem

I have just remembered that the 100ser I had the entertainment unit actually had an MP3 logo on it nad was the first year that it did (2005).
The earlier ones didnt play MP3 apparently

Put your stick into your PC Go to a HDD and make a new folder and call it "Car Music" or whatever. Open your USB Stick Highlight everything Right click hit COPY

Open your HDD folder you named ???? R Click in it hit paste wait All done

Good idea Tom. May I also suggest putting the new folder in the standard Windows folder called My Music.

Under My Music I have one called "Mixed songs". In that one I have a copy of all the songs on the disk that we want for the car, but NOT all the DVD and CD label, album and etc files. All songs in My Music are in folders named according to the artist/s.

I also have hours of songs I brought back from Vietnam on heaps of 8" magnetic take, with 8 hours of music on each tape. Including some albums,notably one by Jimi Hendrix, that were never released in Oz.

Actually I never use the Library folders as they are on the C drive.
Should Windoze die (and it will) and you have to reinstall you will lose all of that.

I have a 128gb SSD with only Windoze on it and everything else is installed on the D drive, or one of the other 3 drives I have.

That way I can format the C and reinstall Windoze in about 90 mins. I can then reinstall the other programs at my lesuire knowing that I havent lost anything.
I backup my emails weekly and also have a copy on the ISP server.

Have learnt from bitter experience not to use the C drive for storing anything you want to keep.

We do something similar.

We both have external USB drives. Both of us have a 1TB that is used as a working disk and I have a 3TB one on mine as well that is used to store both our backups on. Kind of used as a mass network storage box. Simple to restore or migrate to a new computer etc.