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| Chaggi Korea (South). March 06 2012 13:53. Posts 1083 | Profile # | |
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| arepa3000 Canada. March 06 2012 13:56. Posts 55 | Profile Blog # |
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| Luepert United States. March 06 2012 13:57. Posts 1698 | Profile Blog # |
I have a ford escape with the same thing.
To set it up I have to: Turn on the radio, settigs, media settings, select source, sync usb. idk what car you have but I hope that helps. |
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| LuckyFool United States. March 06 2012 13:58. Posts 8285 | Profile Blog # |
| yeah check the settings on the control panel, see if you can set to external device or something, you might also have to sync like Luepert mentioned. |
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| Jinsho United Kingdom. March 06 2012 14:06. Posts 3022 | Profile # |
Look in the manual (RTFM!). There should be an option in your car radio to play music from your USB drive.
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| SigmaoctanusIV United States. March 06 2012 14:06. Posts 2431 | Profile Blog # |
| or you can use it to charge usb devices like cellphones. |
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| tw!tch United States. March 06 2012 14:34. Posts 533 | Profile Blog # |
On March 06 2012 14:06 SigmaoctanusIV wrote:
or you can use it to charge usb devices like cellphones.
Exactly, my 2012 accent has a ipod hookup right next to it, so you can use it for that. I use the aux and usb combined to charge my phone and play music off of it. |
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| cmen15 United States. March 06 2012 15:01. Posts 1459 | Profile Blog # |
| hmm did you try to google it?? I feel like alot of people would ask about this kind of stuff. |
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| jmbthirteen United States. March 06 2012 15:07. Posts 9608 | Profile Blog # |
| it definitely should be able to play music off of the usb drive. It probably supports ipods as well. |
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 Silidons United States. March 06 2012 15:19. Posts 2785 | Profile Blog # |
u cant just plug a USB drive into it...have to use an ipod or other music device. i have a usb port in my radio which i connect my ipod to.
it acts as the speakers...it doesnt actually have music playing software in it...Last edit: 2012-03-06 15:20:28 |
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| Mtndrew United States. March 06 2012 15:29. Posts 173 | Profile # |
On March 06 2012 14:34 tw!tch wrote:
Show nested quote +On March 06 2012 14:06 SigmaoctanusIV wrote:
or you can use it to charge usb devices like cellphones.
Exactly, my 2012 accent has a ipod hookup right next to it, so you can use it for that. I use the aux and usb combined to charge my phone and play music off of it.
How is the Accent? The new ones look nice. |
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 Divinek Canada. March 06 2012 15:32. Posts 4016 | Profile Blog # |
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| BreakfastBurrito United States. March 06 2012 15:45. Posts 668 | Profile # |
Wow, you can stick a flash drive into your car now? Thought it had to be an ipod or media playing device.....
I drive a '95 haha >_< |
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| Shana Indonesia. March 06 2012 16:10. Posts 1260 | Profile Blog # |
| My car audio can play directly from flash drive, pretty sure you just have to switch the function. |
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| jmbthirteen United States. March 06 2012 16:15. Posts 9608 | Profile Blog # |
On March 06 2012 15:19 Silidons wrote:
u cant just plug a USB drive into it...have to use an ipod or other music device. i have a usb port in my radio which i connect my ipod to.
it acts as the speakers...it doesnt actually have music playing software in it...
you should be able to just plug a USB drive into it. I have had multiple head units myself that do so. |
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| Jayme United States. March 06 2012 18:00. Posts 4922 | Profile Blog # |
On March 06 2012 15:19 Silidons wrote:
u cant just plug a USB drive into it...have to use an ipod or other music device. i have a usb port in my radio which i connect my ipod to.
it acts as the speakers...it doesnt actually have music playing software in it...
What? Most up to date radios do indeed have music playing software in it. My car sure as hell does. Hell some allow you to play it right off of a external harddrive if you have one that can be powered by just a USB port.
You just have to go into settings and make sure it's pulling from the USB port. |
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| OrpheusSail United States. March 06 2012 23:29. Posts 5 | Profile # |
I had an issue similar to this with my car about a week ago. I'd been listening to music through an old USB drive, but the drive stopped working, and I bought a new one. The car reacted similarly to what you described. It recognized it, but it wouldn't pull music from it.
After looking around for a while, I discovered that the new drive was formatted NTFS, and my car would only read from USB drives which had been formatted FAT32.
I re-formatted the USB drive as FAT32, re-loaded the music, and it started working.
It was frustrating because nothing in the manuals or info I could discover from Honda helped. I found out on a message board for Honda owners.
Might be worth a try. If it doesn't work, you can always re-format the drive back to what it was. |
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| Lonyo Guernsey. March 07 2012 01:22. Posts 2011 | Profile Blog # |
Yeah, most require FAT32.
A lot of stereos are pretty crap. I bought what I hoped would be a quality one... wouldn't read most of my mp3s (it's fine if I convert them from mp3 to... mp3, using a batch converter which uses LAME, but as downloaded thye won't work. They work fine in my other car stereo though...) |
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| HornyHerring Papua New Guinea. March 07 2012 01:25. Posts 675 | Profile # |
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