USB thumb drive: music files

[chipsalot]

For what it's worth, 256GB thumb drive working...

2024 1500 Limited UConnect 5 w/12" screen running FCA-MY23.T27.34-PROD and successfully playing music from a 256GB thumb drive NTFS-formated with folders as follows: artist > album > song in mp3 and m4a formats - roughly 2,000 songs.

It took a long time for the head unit to index the drive. I think its best to listen to other sources and just let it do its thing; but it was easily an hour plus.

For what its worth, the drive used is as follows:
"SAMSUNG MUF-256AB/AM FIT Plus 256GB - 400MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Gunmetal Gray"
Amazon link: Amazon.com

 

[DEG]

I use a tiny 128GB Scan Disk it currently has 2800 songs in lossless FLAC format and it's just over half full.

 

[ram813ltd]

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 this system, is that I can't select a genre and hit shuffle. It appears the software relies more on playlists than file tagging.

If anyone else has figured out a good way to tag and store files on a thumb drive, including playlists, play share that with me.

put them in different folders