Command- Media - Question

[Zolly]

Hi, peeps

so I had a memory stick that had a few hundred MP3 files and folders on it.

But, when the Command went through read it, a message like this is to large and as such unsupported

So what gives. I read the manual and it seems pretty comprehensive as for formats and files. Obviously MP4 is not an option

Has anyone had a similar experience? If you did how did you fix it. I don’t want to put files on a stick and then it not work because I didn’t do things a certain way or max size\ track numbers

 

[Botus]

I'm not surprised its not come up here more often..... USB sticks / memory cards come in all shapes, sizes, speed and quality. And modern stuff copes better. But the file structure on a USB stick was set up to work with powerful hardware and windows OS, it was not in anyone's mind to have bundles of detritus that could be instantly accessed and played by a brain with half the capability of a fly squashed on the windscreen

often cars came up with indexing and the stick would respond unreliably, an other day it might be fine, only to stop for petrol and have the fun start all over again, others either have little music, the music is of such hideous quality or the stick was very good that it coped

if you transfer the exact same music files to something like an iPod then check what iTunes did to it, you'll find its scattered in to miniature bits of data that get built back up when playing and somehow this works

I had a 64gig san disc USB3 stick in my 57 plate BMW, some days after a 25 second wait you could stop it playing but it might take 10 minutes for the menus to respond to a request to play something else or it might perfectly OK, then other times it went on holiday for a hour or more

swapped the same 50gig of music on to an iPod and it always responded every time inside 3 seconds with full menu navigation and speedy response

I posted pretty much this same story on a Ford forum in response to "my USB stick doesn't work" and was shouted down by the usual experts saying "mines always perfect...." then 3 other non liars chipped in a few days later, saying theirs does the same I suggested

 

[robin.large]

Also depends on sizes of memory stick. Many older systems can only read sticks less than a certain size.
32gb is a common maximum.

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[JDPEClassUK]

Also file format is important. Car hardware/software often prefers USB to be formatted as exFAT rather than FAT or FAT 32. It’s a quick thing to try.


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