If music is played from a usb drive, is there a limit to the drive size? can i use 2 x 64gb for example
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The size of the drive should not be of concern, in that like Martin mentioned it uses play back infor and does not download to a internal drive.
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Hello Martin. The short answer is I don't know. However I don't believe this unit has A hard drive, so there's no down loading involved if this is true. It just plays back the information whether it comes from an ipod, mp3, or a memory stick. It also is equipped with Bluetooth which means you can play music from an Iphone or Android wirelessly. I hope this was helpful.
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I have had a 32gb flash drive set at fat32, so you could put 2 32gb flashdrive on it just make sure you read speed is at least 10 on the flash drive. I use and ipod now but I use to use these. The down side is the bigger the flash drive the longer the wait for music to start(45 seconds max). Just don't stall car if its a stick, 45 seconds feel a lot longer when you are jamming out at a light and stall out.
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Unfortunately this unit can only read FAT16 or FAT32 filesystems, not NTFS... so your drive size is limited by the capabilities of FAT32: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32
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I am using an 8gb with no problems.User manual says it supports up to 8gb.I have about 1000 mp3`s and that's not even 4gb.
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I have about 2000 songs on an 8 GB USB drive and it plays them but not in a random order. I have not tried a larger one. I am doing a separate drive for a 60's class reunion and want song to play in a certain order so I have numbered them on the flash drive 1 through 120 and that is the order they play.
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Hi Ryan A. Madden, This stereo can only accommodate up to 64GB memory of flash drive. Thanks. &gt;Joffrey
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as long as you leave it formatted in NTFS,(which is the format that mine came in with) there really isn't a size limit. If you re-format to FAT32,then it's 4gig.
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Yes, you can play music from a USB stick. I've played mp3s from my 8GB Crucial Gizmo. I also tried playing music from a portable (2.5") external hard drive, but the stereo usb port didn't have enough juice to power the hdd.
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I don't entirely understand the question, but I'll give you my scenario. I have an old computer that was built in 2002, it has a 40 Gb hard drive that is partitioned, and it runs USB 1.1. I also have a new Dell Vista machine where my main iTunes library is stored, that is at a different location so networking isn't an option. I wanted to back up my music, and I wanted to play it on the old machine, so I bought one of these drives for that. Now I don't have to use 16 (or so, I think the actual capacity is 15.something Gb) Gb of space on that tiny hard drive, I can use the USB drive for all my music. It opened up the space on the old hard drive so I don't have to duplicate the music files there. ITunes reads just fine from the flash drive over USB 1.1; it took some work to copy all the files into iTunes from the flash drive though and get it all set up. As long as the drive letter stays the same, iTunes can find the music any time that flash drive is plugged in and play directly from it. I hope this helps.
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I have the 2 GB one. It holds about 500 songs. It's very basic and that's what I wanted. At least it doesn't shut off like my Sansa did.
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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 haven't tried anything that large. I do have a couple of them, but I have only used a 32g thumb drive.
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Yes, it will play from a Fat32 formatted 8GB(max) usb drive stick, with standard mp3's(it will support at max a 256bitrate mp3)
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Hi. I have this speaker and wanted to use it with my iPod. You can't. It only has a USB port. I dumped a bunch of songs on a thumb drive and used that instead. But don't use a large drive. I think it accepted an 4 gig. Not the 32 gig I bought for it.
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You certainly can, that is how I almost always use the player. I have a short flash drive that I populated with music from my computer that I plug into the system and it plays it with no problem.
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I can confirm 16 gb works. I have not tried larger, as it becomes a moot point. This unit does not support search/browse by folder from flash drive. So if you plan on using more than a couple of folders (which I would presume you would for a drive that size) move on and get a better unit. I very much regret choosing this one.
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I am not aware of any file size limit. I have converted many LP's but I have only done one at a time
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I have about 1250 average length songs on my 16 Gb thumb drive and it is using about 5.5 Gb of memory. My guess is you would hit the 2,000 song limit at about 8 Gb.
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It could but the 2GB may be too small if you have other music on this. I would not risk it on the 2GB