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Using a single USB drive for music and dashcam
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So I've installed the Taptes hub and bought a new High endurance micro SSD and a usb adaptor. Ive formatted the drive exFAT in one partition and FAT32 in the other, copied my music from my PC and about a quarter of the tracks won't play.." loading error".
Any ideas? I've tried changing some to MP3 but looking at the tracks in detail its not that.. some wma most mp3, some flac will play but there seems no rhyme nor reason as to which will and which won't. Some albums won't play and perhaps I can get 2-3 tracks from another album. To me its baffling and frustrating as some of my best music won't play.
Any ideas? I've tried changing some to MP3 but looking at the tracks in detail its not that.. some wma most mp3, some flac will play but there seems no rhyme nor reason as to which will and which won't. Some albums won't play and perhaps I can get 2-3 tracks from another album. To me its baffling and frustrating as some of my best music won't play.
Rustybkts
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I found that wma files do not play at all. Converted all mine to mp3.
That’s correct, wma is not supported. Mine will play any of my FLAC or MP3 tracks with no problems. To rule out your drive and formatting I suggest you try a few tracks on a FAT32 USB stick, just to see if they play ok.
.. and AAC files too ... it's surprising that there isn't a list of supported audio file formats in the manual. I don't think I've come across an audio device/system that doesn't actually tell you which formats are supported!
Rustybkts
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I watched a YouTube vid that showed the M3 playing wma files along with other types. Maybe they have simplified the player for whatever reason.
Thanks for your help. I used WMA to MP3 Converter FREEWARE which is a batch converter and completely free.
kelvin 660
White SR+ with LFP battery
I've partitioned a 128Gb USB drive for one 100Gb partition for the dash cams and 10Gb for music. However I find that about once per minute the music pauses for about 1 second. I'm guessing that is when the dash cam is writing files to the USB drive.
Anyone else found that happen?
Also when you return to the car you have to start the USB music as it does not remember where it was!
Anyone else found that happen?
Also when you return to the car you have to start the USB music as it does not remember where it was!
I’ve been using a 240GB SSD split between dashcam and music for about six months without any problem. However, this last couple of weeks I’ve had both the odd pause in music, and also a warning triangle saying the drive isn’t fast enough, when patently it is.
I suspect they’ve changed something in a recent software update which has caused the problem.
When I get home from holiday I intend to just use the SSD for the dashcam, and set up a separate thumb drive just for music, and see how that fares.
Rustybkts
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I did that after re-formatting/partitioning mine a few times over the past few months due to video fails. Never did find whether it was the car or the memory.
It is much easier to have just one partition and any cheap memory stick can be used for music.
I've had a microSD Class 10 card working fine with two partitions for cam and muisic, but have had two issues. Two USB adapters failed in the same way with little use / no high temps in the car. Also, as I think I noticed others report, every 10 mins or so of playpack I get a second or two silence.
Any one here seen related problems / any comments?
Any one here seen related problems / any comments?
kelvin 660
White SR+ with LFP battery
I bought a USB3 hub of of Ebay for £7 and have used the 128Gb for Dashcam and a 32Gb for music. No more pauses every minute. Works well, so far... Though album art is now missing since software upgrade to 44.10.1 !!
I was waiting for someone else to post this. I had been using a single C10 MicroSD card in an adapter with two partitions which worked OK most of the time except for odd pauses in music.
Two or three similar adapters failed in quick succession, so I bought a San Disk USB3 adapter and since then no more pauses or failures. Still early days but looking good so far.
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