Hi folks,
Am loving the car, but my chief hate on it thus far has been the difficulty in getting my MP3\FLAC library to play and auto-resume after the car goes into deep sleep, ie. the next morning when I get in to commute to work. I've seen a lot of posts about this with no real solution.
When I took delivery, I experimented with a dinky 2 GB USB drive which was all I had laying around, and it worked flawlessly. It always resumed playing right where I left off without exception, so based on the strength of that, I ordered a 256 GB drive so I could put my complete library on it. That, unfortunately, did not work. When getting in the car in the morning, the drive didn't have to be rescanned, but I would have to enlarge the mini-player, select USB as a source, and select a tune to start it. Annoying...
I decided to work up, so selected a 16 GB drive and filled it with music. That worked fine. Next, I took a 32 GB drive and copied the exact same files from the 16 GB drive to it. That did NOT ever work, so my next thought was to check the allocation unit size.
I've been using guiformat on Windows to format the drives as FAT32. When formatting a 16 GB drive with this tool, the default allocation unit size is 8K, but for 32 GB, it's 16K, which I had just accepted although it is user-selectable. I decided to reformat the 32 GB drive using an 8K allocation unit size, then copied the same files back to it from the 16 GB drive.
Tested it this AM, and lo and behold, it auto-resumed right where it left off last nite.
Looking good so far, and will be testing a 64 GB drive next. Not sure what the practical limit on drive size is with an 8K sector size though. Anyway, hope this helps someone...
Ian
Am loving the car, but my chief hate on it thus far has been the difficulty in getting my MP3\FLAC library to play and auto-resume after the car goes into deep sleep, ie. the next morning when I get in to commute to work. I've seen a lot of posts about this with no real solution.
When I took delivery, I experimented with a dinky 2 GB USB drive which was all I had laying around, and it worked flawlessly. It always resumed playing right where I left off without exception, so based on the strength of that, I ordered a 256 GB drive so I could put my complete library on it. That, unfortunately, did not work. When getting in the car in the morning, the drive didn't have to be rescanned, but I would have to enlarge the mini-player, select USB as a source, and select a tune to start it. Annoying...
I decided to work up, so selected a 16 GB drive and filled it with music. That worked fine. Next, I took a 32 GB drive and copied the exact same files from the 16 GB drive to it. That did NOT ever work, so my next thought was to check the allocation unit size.
I've been using guiformat on Windows to format the drives as FAT32. When formatting a 16 GB drive with this tool, the default allocation unit size is 8K, but for 32 GB, it's 16K, which I had just accepted although it is user-selectable. I decided to reformat the 32 GB drive using an 8K allocation unit size, then copied the same files back to it from the 16 GB drive.
Tested it this AM, and lo and behold, it auto-resumed right where it left off last nite.
Looking good so far, and will be testing a 64 GB drive next. Not sure what the practical limit on drive size is with an 8K sector size though. Anyway, hope this helps someone...
Ian