Music On Memory Stick

[ajw]

I've put about 1500 songs on to a usb memory stick to use in my 2012 Fiesta. However, when I play the tracks in shuffle mode, the first two or three seconds of most tracks are missing. This is something of an irritation as I know how the song is supposed to start. Has anybody else had this problem and if so have you been able to fix it?

[Gary.J]

I do know if you put a lot of tracks onto a stick that there isn't enough memory in the car system to access certain features. Try splitting the number into two or 3 folders and see what happens. If no change, try 500 tracks on a stick. I have about 250 tracks in each folder, with a few folders with single albums on. No problem with missing anything.

Of course, you could try not using shuffle.

[Philf1]

I've got nearly 1800 on mine with no problems

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[Gary.J]

Another thing to consider is the speed of your memory stick. Try another one that has good speed writeups. I use one of these.

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/SanDisk/SanDisk-64GB-Ultra-Fit-USB-3.0-Flash-Drive---130MB_s

Takes up almost no room at all, and works well.

[MPX309]

Not sure if this is related, and it doesn't really bother me so much as everything on my USB is dance music mixes, but the beginning of every track/mix skips for a few seconds.

[Willy]

128GB SSD formated to Fat32 with no problems and plays without error :)

[Willy]

Just a note about MP3s. There's always a 1/2 second pause between tracks which would explain your problem MPX309

[MPX309]

Just a note about MP3s. There's always a 1/2 second pause between tracks which would explain your problem MPX309

well no it's not the pause I mean it actually sort of stutters for like 3-5 seconds before playing. Like I say because I only have dance mixes on it (from soundcloud so the whole mix is one track) it doesn't really bother me, but I was just thinking if I had album folders on where each track is like 3-5 mins long, that could get frustrating.

[Colin1969]

Make sure its FAT32

[Stoney871]

It sounds like you may be getting some clipping.

Have you tried playing the tracks on a program like Nero Wave Editor to see if you are getting excessive wave patterns that may be distorting the music?

I use wave editor to tidy up blank start/end points of tracks to remove annoying pauses between music tracks.

http://m.download.cnet.com/Nero-Wave-Editor/3000-2170_4-76086551.html