When playing mp3 files from a usb flash drive or SD card, is there a shuffle option? What format (NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT) is supported for usb drives?
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no shuffle. fat32 only as far as I can tell. manual is not useful. sketchy support for mp3 at best. Bluetooth works great though!
1036692
Yes it plays mp3 on a thumb drive and yes u can put them in folders. For instance I have mine seperated rap,reggae, soft rock etc. and each of these folders I have sub folders. In rap 2pac, biggie, latest rap etc and the same goes for the other genres. Also the USB can connect the iPod iPhone android device. It can also access these device through built in blue tooth.
881628
Yes you can format USB flash drive to FAT or FAT16. Be sure to back up your files first. Always back up files before formatting. You can check on youtube for some examples and tutorials.
317777
Although I've never used the random/shuffle mode, it seems that this little gem can play mp3s in random mode. Their instruction sheet tells how to select/deselect "Radom play" [I believe they meant 'Random play'].
1132929
I have used flash drives but I am not sure if it will have enough juice for a external hard drive. It will play MP3's though, I would recommend you get one with a external power source or use a USB in-line power cable to make sure. Even if it does power it, you'd need to contact them and see if it was built for that or you might overwork and burnout that hardware after time.
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sorry I have never tried the random play with CD drive, and I am not sure what you mean by flash drive...if you use an Ipod, the Ipod has the random play on itself.
611529
Yes, it has a usb port and will play mp3's loaded onto a thumb drive. It does get confused at times though and must be re-booted to play everything. Good price tho.
1116310
Unfortunately, this is my biggest gripe about all MP3 players - PROGRAMABILITY! The only way you're going to be able to play the way you want is to build playlists on your computer and then select random play. Or you can use the bookmark feature directly on the Gigabeat and have it randomly play. There is no way to play just an artist or genre folder randomly.
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The drive is format in FAT32, limiting the file size to 4GB. I did not format the drive to exFAT, but to NTFS. It was really easy and you can can store much bigger files. That works for me.To format the drive to exFAT : 1. Insert your flash drive into an available USB port on your PC. 2. Click "Computer" from the windows start menu. 3. Right-click on the icon for your USB and select "Format". 4. The format window will come up. From the "File system" menu pick "exFAT", and click "Start".
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It sounds to me like you are talking about burning an MP3 disc, a disc with MP3's burned directly as data files instead of converting them to cd audio files. Yes, in that case you can get a couple of hundred songs on a cd compared to about 20 with a normal audio cd. With this receiver, you can save MP3's and other audio file types on a flash drive and plug it in to the USB port and not have to use any discs at all. I read that other people have been also able to use external hard drives!
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All USB-A thumb drives have worked. Make sure they are formatted as FAT (mine are FAT32). Put one MP3 file on the drive, plug the drive into the box, switch the box input to USB and it should start playing automatically after it reads the contents of the drive. If you have a lot of songs/directories on the thumb drive, it can take a long time to read it.
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Any USB works, You must load a playlist of the music you want to hear onto the thumb drive and it will play them in sequence or random I believe, It can't record to the drive just play.
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I never used that feature but I checked my manual and here is what it says..."Procedure to playback MP3/WMA disc with folder mode on........Press the folder button and press the TUNING button to select desired playback folder...". Another section says the following..."To playback USB/MP3 with folder mode on.....device information will be displayed". Again I never used these features but it appears capable to do what you asked.
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I don't know. I have not tried that. I only drop and drag mp3 files to my player....Have not tried it with anything else.
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Yes, shuffle play works with USB and CD player. You can also program play for both. I tried a regular commercial audio CD and shuffle play works. I did not try a MP3 CD to see if the shuffle play would work. However, I would venture to say that it would.
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According to the manual there is a random play mode with mp3. I have never used it myself.
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no its a very simple basic unit, you can only fwd to the next song USB or SD, keep in mind the max size USB or SD is usually 2gb also so u will not be able to use anything larger in my experience ...hope this helps