Issue playing Music from flash drive

[masaidwakeupson]

So I have this issue when playing music from a flash drive.
The music plays OK but there are these random pauses during playback and I cannot figure out what is causing them.
A song will play for about a minute or so and then complete silence.. no sound for about 5 seconds.
Then the music comes back and picks up where it left off like nothing ever happened.
When the music stops the seek bar on the player screen is still moving as if the song is still playing.
I thought maybe the issue was with the music files and that the silences were a part of my MP3 files.
That's not the case.
I rewind the track a bit to the section where any silence occurred and it's not there.
The only time these strange silences happen is when I play music from a USB stick.
Satellite radio and Bluetooth work just fine.
I believe the issue is with the systems MP3 codec or maybe the player.
I'm really unsure at this point.

Has anyone heard of this happening?
Are there known fixes out there?
Thanks.

BTW how large is the Juke Box hard drive partition?

 

[WCLamb]

I'm having the same problem with my 2016 "Signature" and haven't had the time to inquire here. I'm curious too!

Anybody got the answer? I looked in the manual but couldn't find a thing. It seems as though there's a cache that needs to be flushed. It worked fine from NJ to FL and back, and only started after the trip (with a 4GB flash drive inserted).

 

[Ernie3647]

As a trial test I would first try another stick (which you probably already have) then I would try recording the one song on an empty stick at different bit rates to see if it’s affected by that. (Of course I didn’t mention the fat32 format thing because it wouldn’t play at all if that were the case)

 

[masaidwakeupson]

Alright, so I tried this on 4GB and 64GB flash.
I took a lossless MP3 and compressed it to various bit rates to see if a certain bit rate was causing the gaps of silence.
Lossless, 3202kbps, 256kbps, 192kbps, 160kbps, and 128kbps ALL produced the same issue.
I'm convinced it's a decoding, buffering, or file read issue on the vehicles part.
There's something up with the Hyundai MP3 player/system.
From what I've seen on these boards, this is a fairly common issue yet no resolution has come to light.
Might be time to press the dealer for a fix..

 

[WCLamb]

"I'm convinced it's a decoding, buffering, or file read issue on the vehicles part.
There's something up with the Hyundai MP3 player/system.
From what I've seen on these boards, this is a fairly common issue yet no resolution has come to light.
Might be time to press the dealer for a fix..."

I appreciate your efforts, and will most certainly report this problem to my dealer and have the dealer's techs look into it this week. Since I'm retired, I have enough time and the wherewithal to be a pain in the ass. HMA really needs to address this. I have my entire music collection ripped to MP3 files and can load memory sticks with my favorite music until the cows come home. I really want the USB input to work right!! It's all I want to listen to... my favorite music and no commercials!

It appears to be a buffering issue, if that's a possibility. When it happens, the MP3 that's playing will cease playing; the sound will switch over to XM Radio's input for a few seconds (I allowed the initial subscription to lapse so it's not real XM but a "XM sample") while the status bar on the radio tells me it is reading from the USB port; then the song on the MP3 will restart, backed up a second or two before it stopped... and then continue... for a minute or two or five or ten. No telling how long it will continue before the next interruption in playback. Strange -- and annoying. My MP3 files are all recorded at different sound levels, and when the radio pauses and the XM sample comes on, it's enough to blast me out of my seat. I do find this unacceptable.

With only a thousand miles on my new Genesis, I drove to Florida with a different thumb drive in the USB port... 1,300 miles down and then back again... and never had this occur. Changed thumb drives and now the mystery pauses occur on two different 4GB drives. Gotta' figure out whasup wit' dat!

 

[WCLamb]

"...will most certainly report this problem to my dealer and have the dealer's techs look into it this week."

So now I've been to the dealer and a tech looked at the stereo and fiddled with settings a bit. Instead of pausing and blasting me with XM preview, now it pauses and goes to bluetooth. And still I'm getting the disturbing pauses in playback. I guess it's time to escalate the situation to a higher authority.

 

[sluggo]

I can't speak directly to the problem you're seeing, but I can relate some depressing facts on the subject of thumb drives. Turns out that a lot of the "bargain" no-name drives you see that claim to be anything larger than 1GB are fakes. The vendor re-writes the ID codes on the memory die to identify itself as a 16, 32, or even a 64GB part, when in fact it's still only got 1GB of space. Write more than 1GB (sometimes 4GB) of stuff? You overwrite the existing data.

Anyway, I don't know what's going on with the OP's system. Just wanted to put the word out that you should only buy USB drives from known, reputable brands.

And never, ever, ever, ever plug in a found drive. Scattering cheap thumb drives outside a target business/government installation is a common malware distribution method. Hit it with a hammer.