Music on USB flash drive

[DragonFire]

Hi There, new member here, and a recent buyer of a 2020 Ram Big Horn.
My truck did not come with a Satellite radio which isn't a biggie to me, since I usually listen to only 1 channel. But my old Dodge Charger allowed me to use a USB drive with music and playlists on it. Is that still possible with the new Ram's? It's been awhile, but I think I just had mp3 files on it. Will that still work?

Any better alternatives or advice? oh, and before you tell me about Pandora or Spotify, I do have them on my phone, but aren't thrilled with paying for all the data charges

 

[RJS]

Hi There, new member here, and a recent buyer of a 2020 Ram Big Horn.
My truck did not come with a Satellite radio which isn't a biggie to me, since I usually listen to only 1 channel. But my old Dodge Charger allowed me to use a USB drive with music and playlists on it. Is that still possible with the new Ram's? It's been awhile, but I think I just had mp3 files on it. Will that still work?

Any better alternatives or advice? oh, and before you tell me about Pandora or Spotify, I do have them on my phone, but aren't thrilled with paying for all the data charges

Some thought from a previous post. Might be radio dependent but should get you started. Initially, just try what you have.

USB thumb drive: music files

I know a lot of people use their phones for music playback. I do not, and do not want to start either..... I am not a big I-tunes fan either. I use a 64 gig USB drive, and store lossless MP3 music files on it. I am a dinosaur and still buy CD's, then rip them. One notable short combing of...

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[Billy James]

Hi There, new member here, and a recent buyer of a 2020 Ram Big Horn.
My truck did not come with a Satellite radio which isn't a biggie to me, since I usually listen to only 1 channel. But my old Dodge Charger allowed me to use a USB drive with music and playlists on it. Is that still possible with the new Ram's? It's been awhile, but I think I just had mp3 files on it. Will that still work?

Any better alternatives or advice? oh, and before you tell me about Pandora or Spotify, I do have them on my phone, but aren't thrilled with paying for all the data charges

Yep, it works great. I have a 128 GB Samsung Fit loaded up with MP3s and it works great. I formatted mine FAT32; but some people say you don't have to. I don't like paying for services either and I have a pretty big music library to begin with; so USB works great for me. It works nice with the UConnect voice commands as well...I just say a song, album or an artist I want to hear and it plays it.

 

[TNRamGuy]

Yep, it works great. I have a 128 GB Samsung Fit loaded up with MP3s and it works great. I formatted mine FAT32; but some people say you don't have to. I don't like paying for services either and I have a pretty big music library to begin with; so USB works great for me. It works nice with the UConnect voice commands as well...I just say a song, album or an artist I want to hear and it plays it.

I can confirm that it works great with the 12" UCo also. I also formatted to FAT32, I leave mine plugged into USB3 (rear seat driver side) Mine is a 1TB

 

[DragonFire]

I can confirm that it works great with the 12" UCo also. I also formatted to FAT32, I leave mine plugged into USB3 (rear seat driver side) Mine is a 1TB

Do you have any delay with such a big drive? I found one post saying the owner thought it wasn't working, but it turned out to be a long delay in recognizing all the songs on it. It was an old post, like 2016.

 

[TNRamGuy]

Do you have any delay with such a big drive? I found one post saying the owner thought it wasn't working, but it turned out to be a long delay in recognizing all the songs on it. It was an old post, like 2016.

I really have not noticed any delay at all

 

[Jopipe17]

Yep, it works great. I have a 128 GB Samsung Fit loaded up with MP3s and it works great. I formatted mine FAT32; but some people say you don't have to. I don't like paying for services either and I have a pretty big music library to begin with; so USB works great for me. It works nice with the UConnect voice commands as well...I just say a song, album or an artist I want to hear and it plays it.

Awesome, I was looking at ordering a 64gb flash drive from DJ dirty bass. I habe a 2020 ram 1500 bighorn and wasn't sure if a 62gb flash drive would work or if it had to be downloaded a certain way since I've read few different threads saying how people couldn't get there flash drive to work and it only was showing like a 1/4 of there songs and they had to reformat it and do all kind of stuff lol. I don't have a way of doing that so was jus gonna order it and plug it in an hope for the best lol. But I wanted to make sure before I ordered it will definitely play a 64gb flash drive and how does the music have to be formated? Thanks dude

 

[bigdodge]

Every once in a while, my usb drive starts at the beginning.
So I keep a list of the songs and when I shut off truck I make a mark in the paper.

 

[Jopipe17]

Every once in a while, my usb drive starts at the beginning.
So I keep a list of the songs and when I shut off truck I make a mark in the paper.

What size flash drive you use in your ram? I was thinking about ordering a dj dirty bass flash drive for music and he offers a 64gb flash drive and I belive 32gb. I was gonna get the 64gb but I wanted to make sure it will work fine in my truck since I've never used a flash drive since I bought my truck. It's a 2020 ram 1500 bighorn. So does the music files have to be a certain format and certain size gb will work or any usb flash drive with music will work?

 

[DEG]

What size flash drive you use in your ram? I was thinking about ordering a dj dirty bass flash drive for music and he offers a 64gb flash drive and I belive 32gb. I was gonna get the 64gb but I wanted to make sure it will work fine in my truck since I've never used a flash drive since I bought my truck. It's a 2020 ram 1500 bighorn. So does the music files have to be a certain format and certain size gb will work or any usb flash drive with music will work?

I don't think size matters as much as how the drive is formatted. I use a 128gb drive formatted NTFS. I'm pretty sure both Uconnect 4 and 5 require drives formatted either FAT32 or NTSF will work. However, many new drives 64gb and large come formatted as exFat drives and that won't work. You would need to reformat them to NTFS. I believe most drives below 32gb and below will come formatted as FAT32 which will work.

Your safest file format will be .mp3. If you are downloading MP3 files you won't have a choice, but if you are ripping them from CDs make sure to set it to rip at the highest quality 320kbps.

A 32gb thumb drive should hold several thousand mp3 songs.

 

[bigdodge]

SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB 32GB Flash Drive
with just under 2k songs it hardly shows any use when plugged into computer to add more songs
that includes what the system needs to run

 

[Garvanzo]

I also run a flash drive and wonder, is it normal for the shuffle to turn off every time you restart the truck. I had a few Challengers with Uconnect 4 and they would stay in whatever setting it was left in last, but the Ram always goes back to playing songs in order. It's a 22 with 8.4" Uconnect 5. Also, it will start back at the beginning about twice a week. I have not found any kind of pattern to that.

 

[DEG]

I also run a flash drive and wonder, is it normal for the shuffle to turn off every time you restart the truck.

No that's not normal. Mine will restart in the middle of the song that was last playing.

 

[Darksteel165]

I also run a flash drive and wonder, is it normal for the shuffle to turn off every time you restart the truck. I had a few Challengers with Uconnect 4 and they would stay in whatever setting it was left in last, but the Ram always goes back to playing songs in order. It's a 22 with 8.4" Uconnect 5. Also, it will start back at the beginning about twice a week. I have not found any kind of pattern to that.

Change flash drives. Looks like it's causing a remount of the file system. Ram is same as Charger for this.

 

[Jopipe17]

I don't think size matters as much as how the drive is formatted. I use a 128gb drive formatted NTFS. I'm pretty sure both Uconnect 4 and 5 require drives formatted either FAT32 or NTSF will work. However, many new drives 64gb and large come formatted as exFat drives and that won't work. You would need to reformat them to NTFS. I believe most drives below 32gb and below will come formatted as FAT32 which will work.

Your safest file format will be .mp3. If you are downloading MP3 files you won't have a choice, but if you are ripping them from CDs make sure to set it to rip at the highest quality 320kbps.

A 32gb thumb drive should hold several thousand mp3 songs.

Alright 10/4 well the flash drives I'm looking at getting are from DJ dirty bass he sells flash drives with rebassed music he makes for bug demo vehicles and jus everyday street beaters. I belive he told me they are mp3 files and he has a 32gb drive with all his music on it which I was hopping I could jus place it in my usb in my ram and it would work. I never used a flash drive so I didn't wanna purchase it and it not work lol. Appreciate the help

 

[kapinallinen2]

My Samsung 500GB 850 evo SSD plays nice with my 4CNav. it is formatted NTFS.

 

[Garvanzo]

Change flash drives. Looks like it's causing a remount of the file system. Ram is same as Charger for this.

Tried a new drive and same result. Every time truck is restarted, it restarts with shuffle off. It's just part of the ritual now. Stop start off, gear selector to 8 and shuffle after Uconnect is done booting up. oh well.