dmiratsky

Anyone having trouble making a USB Thumbdrive work?

I have just a simple 16gb thumbdrive with about 20 mp3's copied to it from Windows Vista. For every song, it plays a random number of seconds, then pauses, then gives 'Unplayable File' message, then skips to the next song. Tried it with a difft group of mp3's and same thing..

I searched and no one else appears to have had this problem on here, so I'm not sure if it's just a bad thumbdrive or a Windows Vista issue or some other unknown problem, but hoping someone has some advice.

2011 - G37 Sedan

Modme

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Is it formatted as FAT32?

dmiratsky

Yes, it is, since it is actually reading the song list correctly. But I even re-formatted it last night again and started over, but still getting the 'Unplayable File' about half-way through each song.

Will end up buying another thumbdrive to see what happens, but just wanted to know if anybody else had come across it.

rks

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as a wild guess, would it help to create 4GB (or smaller) folders?

pham0100

I don't know if you've figured it out, but I think it's because your MP3 files are encoded with variable bit rate. It seems like the G37 can only decode up to 192kbps encoding. (or the next one up). My files that are encoded at 320kbps show up a unreadable as well.

So your file probably plays initially because the initial encoding is under the threshold but when the "variable" part crosses above, the system can no longer decode the file to play.

tejasg37x

All my MP3 files are 320kbps and they play fine in mine in my 2010 G

xzeus

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only problem or gripe that i have, is that it takes forever to read/load before it starts playing songs.

G37Avi

I have the same issues with my thumb drive... It takes FOREVER to read the contents and start playing a song, although strangely sometimes is comes on quicker.. As far as the "unplayable file" problems... I figured out that when i transferred my music onto my drive, it created a hidden file for every song that was put on there, for some stupid reason. I discovered this by looking through the list of songs, while in my car, and noticed some of the file names had an underscore line in front of it. EXAMPLE "_.04 Ride Wit Me"

When i plugged the USB drive into my computer, and enabled it to show hidden files, i saw all of them, and just deleted them.

Give that a shot. It must be done on a windows computer.

Dj1ofDet

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I've had similar issues with a jump drive in the G. Eventually I just went to an old iPod Touch my brother had laying around. The integration is much better, IMO.

DJ Eshelman

Having similar issues-
I have a 2012 G37x without NAV, but it did have the USB input. I'm using a FAT32 USB stick as well- but I may have figured it out. It's in the encoding. My older MP3s coded at between 128 and 256 kbits, some VBR, some not. In fact the VBR files encoded from Amazon MP3 all play perfectly; those are typically coded for VBR up to 320 or something.
After painful comparison I finally figured it out (I think)

The files that play are coded 44kHz Joint Stereo
The files that do not are coded 44kHz 2 Channel

What sucks for me is that nearly 10 years ago I encoded my entire collection of CDs and ripped them all... at 44kHz 2 Channel.

We're talking about some 25,000 songs here. That would be a lot to transcode, and finding which ones in the collection in need is... well, not worth it by any stretch.

So, I'll be looking for an alternative. I was looking forward to my commute being nostalgic but I suppose I'll have to keep to all of my 2006+ MP3s and MP4s only :-(

JSolo

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DJ, is your conclusion limited to the non nav models? I have the nav in mine and it's played every type of mp3 i've thrown at it so far (unless by some coincidence mine are all JS and not 2 channel).