Songs on USB

[carl.oldham.58]

I have an Alpine UTE-72BT stereo in my car, I have over 500 songs on an 8gb USB stick but the stereo is only seeing 255 of the songs, is there something I need to do to get it to see all the songs on the USB stick? Thanks

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[Oz.Germolus]

I had a similar problem where I had all my tracks arranged in different folder by genre. I had over 300 tracks in the first file and it wouldn't pick them all up, what's worse is it seemed random which would work and which wouldn't. I took half the tracks and gave them their own folder and that seemed to work for me, it seems some decks can't read that many files to a folder for whatever reason.

 

[carl.oldham.58]

Thankyou I'll try that, so maybe 100 songs per folder ?

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[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

thats weird, 255 is the limit of most 8 bit things so that kind of hints towards something internally in the headunit, maybe it uses only a 8 bit processor or something.

id try splitting the folders like was mentioned, then maybe change the file format of the usb stick. you'll have to format it clean first so save your songs elsewhere to transfer back over after you change it

edit; looks like the same problem some kenwoods have, check this out: http://www.kenwoodforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4544

 

[carl.oldham.58]

Thanks Mitchell, it's currently formatted fat32, is there another format to try?

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[carl.oldham.58]

Just seen your edit, that looks helpful, thanks

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[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

Just seen your edit, that looks helpful, thanks

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ntfs is the other format, but id start by using multiple folders, ive seen a few things now saying you can have a max of 256 songs per folder and 256 folders per drive - i.e. your 8gb usb stick

 

[carl.oldham.58]

Thanks for your help, appreciated

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