[JimArneson]

I discovered an annoying little detail related to the MyLink system. I copied a bunch of music to a USB thumb drive and tried it in my SS but the car would not recognize the drive. After screwing around for a while I discovered that there seems to be a limit to the size of jump drive. Any USB stick 32GB or smaller (capacity) works fine (USB 2 or 3). A 64GB drive will not be recognized...

 

[SlingShot]

It's because the system only recognizes a FAT32 file system and it has a limit of 32Gb. The 64Gb drives use NTFS, which the system will not recognize.

 

[Diehard]

I discovered an annoying little detail related to the MyLink system. I copied a bunch of music to a USB thumb drive and tried it in my SS but the car would not recognize the drive. After screwing around for a while I discovered that there seems to be a limit to the size of jump drive. Any USB stick 32GB or smaller (capacity) works fine (USB 2 or 3). A 64GB drive will not be recognized...

Just A thought Jim but is the 64GB drive something besides FAT32? I think the car will only recognize FAT32.

Oops...Slingshot beat me to it! I guess you could reformat the NTFS system to FAT32 but probably not worth the trouble. Apparently you need a third party formatting utility.

 

[JimArneson]

Thanks... You guys are absolutely right!

The great thing about these forms is the opportunity for learning they provide. I did not realize there was a volume limit in the FAT 32 format. On my Windows 7 machine I can only choose between exFAT and NTFS. I messed around (for far too long) and found that there is a (theoretical) work around to allow a FAT 32 volume all the way to 2TB... but decided to just copy about half my music collection to a different USB drive (Life is too short already).

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[JimArneson]

SS Music...

 

[Jstue]

I discovered an annoying little detail related to the MyLink system. I copied a bunch of music to a USB thumb drive and tried it in my SS but the car would not recognize the drive. After screwing around for a while I discovered that there seems to be a limit to the size of jump drive. Any USB stick 32GB or smaller (capacity) works fine (USB 2 or 3). A 64GB drive will not be recognized...

Untrue, I run a 128GB usb. Try a different manufacturer. All my USB's have worked so far. Your going to have to blame that one on your drive or the way you formatted it. Not on the car.

 

[JimArneson]

Your going to have to blame that one on your drive or the way you formatted it. Not on the car.

That's exactly what we're saying here...

 

[Jstue]

Didn't read before I pulled the trigger on that one. woopsie

 

[JimArneson]

...

 

[Diehard]

Thanks... You guys are absolutely right!

The great thing about these forms is the opportunity for learning they provide. I did not realize there was a volume limit in the FAT 32 format. On my Windows 7 machine I can only choose between exFAT and NTFS. I messed around (for far too long) and found that there is a (theoretical) work around to allow a FAT 32 volume all the way to 2TB... but decided to just copy about half my music collection to a different USB drive (Life is too short already).

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Man! That's a lot of music. What are you , a DJ?

 

[JimArneson]

I don't know... Its about 400 albums 8000 tracks. I started ripping all my cd's a long time ago and this is what I ended up with.
I subscribed to Spotify for a while ($10/month) but I actually like "owning" the music on cd. Spotify does get you access to something like 25,000,000 tracks. Which makes my collection seem pretty small.

 

[firehawk238]

I ripped off like 21k songs using Limewire but sadly my HD Crashed as did my iPod so looks like im scot free on that one! lmao. But seriously, it was a sad day when I lost all that music.....

 

[Diehard]

I ripped off like 21k songs using Limewire but sadly my HD Crashed as did my iPod so looks like im scot free on that one! lmao. But seriously, it was a sad day when I lost all that music.....

I hope you asked Santa for a "Backup" HD.

 

[Kinalyx]

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but i cannot find a way to get my car to see my USB drive. Its only an old POS 512mb drive that i had laying around to add a few songs to the car for the time being. I cannot get the car to even recognize that the USB is plugged in. The USB stick itself flashes when plugged in, and its doing that, so the connection is fine. Every other device i put it in sees it fine, the car doesnt.

I checked the properties, and its FAT formatted.

Anyone else had this issue?

Shawn

 

[slivoman]

Format the drive again in FAT32 and that should fix any issues.

 

[Kinalyx]

I just reformatted to FAT32 and still the same thing. The icon on the radio doesnt even light up. Its just a greyed out USB icon. The car isnt seeing the USB drive at all.

Shawn

 

[slivoman]

At that point, your car just doesn't like that drive. They are cheap enough to get a new one. Amazon has some sweet 64gig units that are super small. That should fit most people's collection of mp3s.

Amazon.com: SanDisk Cruzer Fit 64GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-064G-B35: Computers & Accessories

 

[rjcalif]

Fwiw, my sons Ford's with their MSFT MySync system has the same "feature", FAT32 only. I learned this the hard way when trying to perform their first SW upgrade that required the car to run in park for 35 minutes - yep engine fully running. Must be progress.

 

[Hankg42]

I have a 64 GB USB stick with over 1500 songs, 130 albums, something like that. It plays great in the SS (love the "Random" feature). It played great in my 2012 Corvette too. It would not play in my (now sold) 2011 Sierra Denali. I never could figure that one out.

 

[037]

I ripped off like 21k songs using Limewire but sadly my HD Crashed as did my iPod so looks like im scot free on that one! lmao. But seriously, it was a sad day when I lost all that music.....

Data recovery can be done as long as drive is recognized and is spinning without any clicking noises. PM me if u still have it.