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Usb Music Track Count

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Hi all.

Just bought myself a 64gb fat32 USB stick.

I've added over 4k of music. But it's only playing 1024 of the tracks. How do I get it to recognise all of the music?

Solved by GothicRebel



Maybe the stick itself. Have you updated the firmware on the module to the latest from the ford connectivity site? I have a 16gb Kingston data traveller in mine and is has more than 1024 tracks on it and it works fine in mine.

Try putting over 1024 tracks on a smaller capacity stick and see if that works OK if your firmware is already up to date

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Try putting over 1024 tracks on a smaller capacity stick and see if that works OK if your firmware is already up to date

Yesh i updated it not long after getting the first retrofit cable.

My old man has a 128gb stick. Might try his. Or i may try my stick in his mondeo.

Yeah I would give it a try. With the interface you get in the focus I feel that have navigating through 50 or 60 folders is a little clumbersome , about 20 is good for me. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised it there was some kind of limit on folders/file path length etc but can't find any info about this

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Yeah I would give it a try. With the interface you get in the focus I feel that have navigating through 50 or 60 folders is a little clumbersome , about 20 is good for me. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised it there was some kind of limit on folders/file path length etc but can't find any info about this

Ive just dumped all the tracks on the root of the usb stick no folders.

Hmm maybe 1024 tracks per folder? Try putting them in folders and see what happens? Just a thought as mine are foldered per album etc

1024 is 1kb it seems your problem is the file format system fat32. This format has a single file size limit it may well be the other files exceed that size.

Try formatting the drive to a different format such as NTFS. of course back up your media on a different drive first everything will be deleted.

Another possibly is that files may not be readable from folders. You could try using a sync program like windows medua and transfer your files through thst it should create the needed formats and folders readable

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The Max file size for FAT32 is 4GB, its not really ever going to be applicable here as they are music tracks so prob a Max of around 10mb or in my case I have a lot of mixes that are around 150mb. My 16GB stick is formatted in FAT32 and has no restrictions. Not 100% but I'm not sure the system will support NTFS (remember reading it somewhere), think its got to be FAT32. We are talking number of files the system is reading not really file size.

Another thing is are all your file types the same, as the system will only support mp3, wav and non drm protected wma

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1024 is 1kb it seems your problem is the file format system fat32. This format has a single file size limit it may well be the other files exceed that size.

Try formatting the drive to a different format such as NTFS. of course back up your media on a different drive first everything will be deleted.

Another possibly is that files may not be readable from folders. You could try using a sync program like windows medua and transfer your files through thst it should create the needed formats and folders readable

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Ford OC mobile app

Just read the book. Has to been 1000 songs per folder. I did have all my music set to 4k worth of them just in the root of the USb stick

I then arranged them 1024 tracks to a folder and folders named A-F, F-P, P-Z. But it kept saying Invaild.

So im going to redo the folder names as it says in the book. Ford1, Ford2, Ford3. and only have 1000 songs per folder and see how that works

My folder names are just the album names and list in alphabetical order. Unless there is a minimum folder name length :wacko:

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My folder names are just the album names and list in alphabetical order. Unless there is a minimum folder name length :wacko:

Just read in the book that if they are named Ford1 so on that you can use voice control with the folders then.

Ah got you makes sense I don't use VC yet I just control from the stereo and stalk

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Ah got you makes sense I don't use VC yet I just control from the stereo and stalk

I normally do too.

When turning your car on and switching to USB, Does your inisilazing take a short while too. 30+ secs ? Think mine can take up to a min if not longer

Its instant on mine never noticed a delay. Prob due to the size of the drive and amount of tracks?

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Its instant on mine never noticed a delay. Prob due to the size of the drive and amount of tracks?

Hmm

Just swapping music back to the USB stick as i type and i'll give it a whirl. See how it goes this time.

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Hmm

Just swapping music back to the USB stick as i type and i'll give it a whirl. See how it goes this time.

Works Perfect. Has to be 1000 songs per folder. Folders have to be named Ford1, Ford2 so on.

Initializing doe take a little while on mine at first but works kick !Removed!. Have shuffle set to all so it flicks folders.

Really happy with this car now.

I normally do too.

When turning your car on and switching to USB, Does your inisilazing take a short while too. 30+ secs ? Think mine can take up to a min if not longer

This is normal, i get this too whenever i use an MP3 CD, in other words all the music on that single cd are in mp3 formats, this way i can add lots of music, these take a while to load

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Not mp3 cd dude. USB mp3s.

Mp3 CD takes about 10 secs or so to search on mine USB doesn't. Glad u got it sorted Andy - enjoy your tunes!

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Cheers bro.

So glad little things are coming together.

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