I recently found out that my car receiver supports other devices besides the iPod (that was all it advertised). I can put music on a flash drive and access it. The only problem is that I can't get from one album to the next very quickly. It's the equivalent of scrolling through an iPod shuffle (pretty hard when you have a 16gb flash drive). I'm operating on a Kenwood Excelon KDC - X592 that I got from Crutchfield. Can anyone help?
My problem has absolutely nothing to do with the actual load time. I was just wondering if there was an easier way to set up the folders for navigation.
There is probably a few factors that affect the speed at which your head unit reads files from a flash drive.
All flash drives are not created equal. Some read faster than others, others write faster than some. Smaller capacity drives probably access data faster than larger ones. I would suggest looking up the specs on the flash drive to determine how fast it can read data.
"The USB port is compatible with all USB mass storage class devices that support the FAT16 or FAT32 file system. Your USB device should only have a maximum of 8 directory levels, 255 folders, and 255 files per folder with a maximum of 65,025 files and folders."
I would suggest putting no more than 255 files in any one folder.
ArtistTitle.mp3
ArtistAlbumTitle.mp3
GenreTitle.mp3
GenreArtistTitle.mp3
etc...
MediaMonkey media player can add files in any directory structure to almost any storage device (IPod/Flash drives/Sansa/etc..)
The other factor could be the head unit itself, maybe the USB interface isn't very good.
Formatting the drive, then adding the tracks in groups(album or artist) may also help.
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