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I have a new 32gb USB that I loaded music onto, I tried to play it in my car (where I have done so before) but some songs played while others were just skipped over as if the radio couldn't read the USB. Also one song was labelled as one thing but another song played. That has never happened before. All of the songs are mp3s.

Does anybody have any idea why this would happen?
 
LikeANinja7 said:
I have a new 32gb USB that I loaded music onto, I tried to play it in my car (where I have done so before) but some songs played while others were just skipped over as if the radio couldn't read the USB. Also one song was labelled as one thing but another song played. That has never happened before. All of the songs are mp3s.

Does anybody have any idea why this would happen?
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Brand of flash drive?
File system the flash drive is formated as?
Do the mp3 files work fine on another flash drive?
 
File system on the drive is NTFS I am sure. Might be fat32. But I don't think that's the issue. Likeaninja - right click the drive while it's in your pc and go to properties. How many GB does it show ?
 
That's the right size then. Try formatting it and loading songs on again.
 
After formatting it, eject the drive, unplug and plug it in before copying the files. Check that the drive is still empty. I've had USB flash failures where it looks like it has taken the format or the new files, but nothing happens on the device.

Other thought, maybe the car radio can only play certain mp3 bit rates, or only CBR encoded files, not VBR ones. Grab a tool like MediaInfo and see if you can spot common differences between files that play and don't play.
 
Sounds like a fake flash drive to me, where did you buy it from and what brand is it?

Otherwise take all the music you want to put on the flash drive and convert it with Freemake Audio Converter to mp3, then try and put the music on the flash drive and play it again.

bruce_the_loon said:
Other thought, maybe the car radio can only play certain mp3 bit rates, or only CBR encoded files, not VBR ones. Grab a tool like MediaInfo and see if you can spot common differences between files that play and don't play.
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Agreed with this.
 
I have had all the same songs on a different usb and they all play. It is only once I started putting them on the new usb that certain songs started skipping.
howardb - I'm not really sure as it was a Christmas present, but it is an hp...
 
Could it be that the filenames of certain songs be too long to read ?

I had issues last time, until I renamed certain songs ...
 
Some older hardware and electronics with USB ports don't necessarily support anything above 4GB - for example, I had to upgrade my car radio firmware in order to get support from anything over 8GB (an SD card format - but USB would effectively be the same principle)
 
I found that only some brands are supported in my car . (the well known brands only in my ford seems they only have a limited number of drivers for the USBs )
 
Ahhh I see... That could be it, because I had absolutely no problems with the smaller USBs. I will try to find another 32gb USB and see if it makes a difference.
 
Can you compare files by content with original? If all files compare correctly, USB stick is not faulty. Then you can investigate different file system formats to see if pther one is working. It would save money for another USB stick.
 
sajunky - I have tried different file system formats but that has not worked either... I'm going to return the USB, best they give me a new one ;-)
 
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