Hi, @ashar. Thanks for sharing. I just sent you a DM.
USB Media Format
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Hi - am I the only one still having trouble with USB Flash Drives? I have tried everything in this thread and the "USB Media Guidelines" thread, including:
* Reformatting my drive on FAT32 (which it was to begin)
* Trying multiple flash drives
* Only loading one song on the flash drive (MP3). Tried a different song
* Checking with MP3Tag app to make sure my files have tags, which they do
I am using various USB-A flashdrives, mostly a SanDisk 4Gb. I am on Windows, and the files read fine on my laptop. The one thing I haven't tried is a USB-C flash drive since I don't have one, but I'm going to invest the $10 and get one to see if the problem is the same.
Thanks for any input, it would be nice to hear some high quality audio on my SSP.
* Reformatting my drive on FAT32 (which it was to begin)
* Trying multiple flash drives
* Only loading one song on the flash drive (MP3). Tried a different song
* Checking with MP3Tag app to make sure my files have tags, which they do
I am using various USB-A flashdrives, mostly a SanDisk 4Gb. I am on Windows, and the files read fine on my laptop. The one thing I haven't tried is a USB-C flash drive since I don't have one, but I'm going to invest the $10 and get one to see if the problem is the same.
Thanks for any input, it would be nice to hear some high quality audio on my SSP.
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I had issue with using a sandisk 32 gb flash drive, correctly formatted. It would say loading but only to 10%. Finally tried a newer, faster ssd hard drive and all the flac and mp3 songs loaded perfectly. Seemed that in my case, the usb flash drive I was using wasn’t up to spec for whatever reason. Also tried using both USB A & C but had same results of not loading
You didn't mention what is actually happening. Is it not appearing in the UI at all? Is it loading forever? Do songs show up but not play?
I'm using this drive and it works fine.
I get the dreaded "10% loaded" message and then the failure. Thanks for both comments, maybe a newer flash drive will work
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Not sure if you were able to remedy your usb situation. But I ran myself into the same issue, after purchasing a new usb. I reformatted the usb drive for another purpose, then reformatted again to put back into the Lucid. After banging my head against the table multiple times, I realized it was a small setting I was getting wrong in macOS Disk Utility.
Select MS-DOS (FAT) under Format and Master Boot Record under Scheme.
I was selecting GUID Partition Map and the Lucid did not like that. Not sure if everyone else knew that but thought I’d share since it was driving me crazy (my own doing)
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Try a lossless format like FLAC.
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I have a 1TB USB-C SSD which will not be recognized by the car at all. However, I have a 32GB USB-A flash drive that works fine. I contacted Service about this and they indicated that SSDs are just not supported, and only a flash drive would work. Can anybody confirm or refute that? My car is currently at the service center, if it's something with the port being bad, I'd love to have them check that now instead of later.
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Correct. Flash drives work. SSDs do not.
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Thank you for confirming!
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I guess I got lucky but I have a 2TB Samsung T9 external SSD and it works in the car without issue.
Make sure you format it correctly. I only have 40 gb of music on it so far and it’s obviously massive overkill for what’s needed.
Make sure you format it correctly. I only have 40 gb of music on it so far and it’s obviously massive overkill for what’s needed.
I have a 1TB Samsung T7 SSD that works great on either usb connector. I believe it’s an NVME drive and may explain the compatibility.
Conversely I couldn’t get several different USB keys to work. Kept getting incorrect format error even though they were formatted correctly.
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I have the same drive, formatted FAT32 and the light turns on for about 30 seconds then just stops and the car doesn’t read anything
I had issues until I used the utility that DeaneG had recommended http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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That did the trick! Thanks so much!
