Which thumb-drive for USB music?
07-08-2014, 08:42 AM
#12
Senior Member
This thread motivated me to drive to Best Buy and purchase an $8 PNY 16g flash drive. Long story short, I simply dragged my songs from the iTunes playlist into the flash drive. I did nothing else. I stuck it in the truck USB port, it indexed for about 2 minutes (1200 songs) and it works perfect. All the album art, song titles, and artist names. I use sync to say my song or artist and it all works. Sharing a success story.
I bought the exact one and it works great
07-08-2014, 10:03 AM
#13
does it work the same for all of the My Touch? i have the base My Touch and plugged a usb with music in and it could not read it.
i'm assuming since it was NTFS and not FAT32 from what i read on this thread....would that fix my issue?
i'm assuming since it was NTFS and not FAT32 from what i read on this thread....would that fix my issue?
07-09-2014, 12:48 PM
#14
I'm no expert on this but I believe it must be FAT32 formatted to work. The $8 PNY flash drive was already FAT32 formatted when I bought it. I'm sure you can reformat it.
07-09-2014, 07:22 PM
#16
Member
This worked great. I suggest if you are going to organize this many files, use folders to aid in searching for stuff.
Copied all my 78s, 45s, LPs, 8-Tracks, Cassettes, CDs, E-Books, classic radio programs (InnerSanctum, Mercury Theater, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Amos & Andy, Dragnet, etc.)
It took a few minutes to sync and is very reliable.
Copied all my 78s, 45s, LPs, 8-Tracks, Cassettes, CDs, E-Books, classic radio programs (InnerSanctum, Mercury Theater, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Amos & Andy, Dragnet, etc.)
It took a few minutes to sync and is very reliable.
07-25-2018, 08:06 AM
#17
Hello,
I just purchased a San Disk 128gb Ultra Slim USB drive to use in my 2016 F-150 with the latest SYNC 3 updates. I have formatted the drive at FAT32 several times, but the truck keeps giving me "error unrecognized USB device or bad cable" message.
I can plug other USB drives of various size into the truck and they all start indexing.
I can take this drive and plug it into my wife's 2013 Edge and it instantly sees the drive and starts indexing. I can take the identical Sandisk 128gb that my wife uses to listen to her music and plug it into the F150 and I get the same error message.
I have tried Master Reset of SYNC and still no go for this drive. Guess I will have to send it back to Amazon.
https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/ultra-fit-usb
I just purchased a San Disk 128gb Ultra Slim USB drive to use in my 2016 F-150 with the latest SYNC 3 updates. I have formatted the drive at FAT32 several times, but the truck keeps giving me "error unrecognized USB device or bad cable" message.
I can plug other USB drives of various size into the truck and they all start indexing.
I can take this drive and plug it into my wife's 2013 Edge and it instantly sees the drive and starts indexing. I can take the identical Sandisk 128gb that my wife uses to listen to her music and plug it into the F150 and I get the same error message.
I have tried Master Reset of SYNC and still no go for this drive. Guess I will have to send it back to Amazon.
https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/ultra-fit-usb
07-25-2018, 09:05 PM
#19
Sending it back to Amazon, and will try some different.
Thanks for the tip anyway.
07-25-2018, 09:14 PM
#20
If you can read it every where but the truck what does that tell you? It's not the drive it's your truck that's the problem. Disconnect the negative (-) battery cable for NO LESS than 15 mins and try again.
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