First Generation USB Flashdrives - Will they playback music files?

[wtc101]

Wondering if anyone with a 2014 Genesis has had success using a USB Flashdrive to playback music files in their cars. It seems to me that doing this might allow for more files then say an MP3 player could normally hold...right? If so, are there any suggestions as to which ones to purchase?

 

[dareckibmw]

This Kingston 8GB works perfect in my Genesis and Wife's Santa Fe. Some other brands didn't, we tried.

I have on that stick ~1500 mp.3's

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/kingsto...1305174052.p?id=mp1305174052&skuId=1305174052

 

[amartz]

Wondering if anyone with a 2014 Genesis has had success using a USB Flashdrive to playback music files in their cars. It seems to me that doing this might allow for more files then say an MP3 player could normally hold...right? If so, are there any suggestions as to which ones to purchase?

I was using successfully a 64g flash drive. It played 320k mp3s just fine.

 

[wtc101]

Thanks guys...that will get me started in the right direction!

 

[SoCalJay]

I've been using this one for a year and a half and it works great:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJRS6QY

 

[homeofstone]

Been using a 16 gig micro usb since 2010 in my Genesis 4.6 with tech. mp3 at 320k

 

[shagnat]

8 gig or 16 gig will be more music you can listen to in a loooong time...... no need to get anything beyond 16 gig unless the price is negligible to go to 32 gig.

 

[amartz]

8 gig or 16 gig will be more music you can listen to in a loooong time...... no need to get anything beyond 16 gig unless the price is negligible to go to 32 gig.

I maxed out a 32G, and went to a 64G!

 

[2011 Genesis 4.6]

I only have a 32gb drive myself, I have a long way to go to max it out lol. I have barely 200+ songs, all at high bitrate so they take a bit more space.

 

[jimwillits]

Has anyone else had the problem with it hijacking your input? What I mean is that if something is plugged in to the USB jack then NO MATTER WHAT you set your car to be playing (FM, Disc, Sirius, nothing) it will stop it and start playing the USB every time you start the car.

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[ronb]

It may seem that the usb is highjacking the playback. My car picks up where I left off, CD, Radio, USB. HOWEVER, when I open the center console and touch or just barely juggle anything in there, the USB moves and then it "takes over" at the very beginning. AS a side note: Any USB will work. I get lots of free ones as promotions and use them.

 

[homeofstone]

It may seem that the usb is highjacking the playback. My car picks up where I left off, CD, Radio, USB. HOWEVER, when I open the center console and touch or just barely juggle anything in there, the USB moves and then it "takes over" at the very beginning. AS a side note: Any USB will work. I get lots of free ones as promotions and use them.

Try a micro usb. Its what I have used for years then it does not get moved. Or some people use a usb extension cable and lay the usb in the compartment.

 

[yellow3.8track]

Yeah, the micro (the one I have sticks out may 3/8"??) works. Mine is an 8 gb stick and I think I calculated something around 40 hours of music on it.

As said earlier in the thread, mine starts up where ever it was when I turned the car off. Radio if radio, USB stick if that was what was in use.

Next radio I get for truck will have that capability, too.

 

[jimwillits]

I will try another uSB stick, maybe there's an issue with this one. Every time I start the car it goes to the USB stick, no matter if I wasn't listening to it or not.

 

[masaidwakeupson]

How does a USB stick need to be formatted so that the Genesis will recognize the drive?
Also, what does the folder structure need to look like? Do I just dump music on root? Or do I need to make a media/music and/or artist folders?
Also, what kind of metadata does the genny read? Is album art supported?
Sorry about all the questions. I'm a new owner =)

 

[jimwillits]

I just dumped mp3 files into three folders. I thought of the folders basically as a different playlist and filled them with the songs I wanted in there.

It doesn't work all that well. It seems to have a hard time (slow) reading at times. And it doesn't seem that metadata is being read consistently if at all, it's reading the file names.

And getting it to randomly play songs in the "playlist" isn't really working either. It seems that I constantly have to manually get it to go play another song and not just go down the list, even when I'm selecting the random option. Very clunky. :/

 

[stumpie]

Is WAV file format supported? Sorry for not just trying it out myself. My car is at the airport and I have a couple hours to drive home when I get back. Wondering if I should rip these WAVs into MP3s or if I can preserve them and the higher bitrate as WAVs and play them back by USB.

Thanks!

 

[jimwillits]

I really don't know, but I highly doubt it. The system is pretty finicky as it is. I doubt it supports something as obscure as a WAV file.

 

[bobshine]

I use a lot of SanDisk USB drives. I keep a case of 8 gig drives in the center console. I have a few where the songs are just dumped onto the drive (all in MP3 format). The random seem to work pretty well for me. On other USB drives I will arrange music by genre (i.e Folk, Rock, Pop, Classical etc.) with each genre in it's own folder. It is fairly simple to navigate to the folder you want via the touch screen. On some drives I have the folders by artist and album. Sometime I want to hear an entire album as it was released. My 2011 Genny supports all the information (album, artists, song title) if supplies. In my wife's 2016 Elantra GT it also shows the album art in the touchscreen. My guess is that the newer Genny's have this too. I never format the USB drives and I use non McApple computers to work on them. Never had any problems. Hope this helps.

 

[srobak]

No the G1 does not play .wav files. mp3 and wma only.