Only 255 songs? - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

2forme · 07-05-2012, 11:19 AM

So I bought the sandisk mini USB drive that a lot of you are using. I loaded it up with 12GB's of MP3's. However, whenever I try to play them in the head unit, it will only recognize the first 255 songs?

Is there a setting somewhere to fix this or is this a limitation of the system?

7thgear · 07-05-2012, 11:54 AM

split them up into folders?

2forme · 07-05-2012, 11:59 AM

I guess I could do that, but I like to set the entire list to random. I could do that on my old Pioneer X930.

7thgear · 07-05-2012, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2forme

I guess I could do that, but I like to set the entire list to random. I could do that on my old Pioneer X930.

you want 12 gigs of MP3's on random?

you'd need to listen to an average of 10 songs a day every day for a year before you would get back square one, i don't think the engineers ever though of that

2forme · 07-05-2012, 12:12 PM

They did at Pioneer. It's only about 1300 songs or so.

Lil Abner · 07-05-2012, 12:28 PM

Can you do random even with folders? It would be something to try I guess.

jeebus · 07-05-2012, 12:32 PM

I don't have a BRZ yet, but all my other cars with USB allow for full random of songs throughout all folders.

K2 · 07-05-2012, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lil Abner

Can you do random even with folders?

Yes. Page 19 of the Audio manual http://www.scion.com/assets/pdf/audi...neer_Audio.pdf

PRESET5 (Random)
If you press this, (folder icon) and RAND is indicated
in the display. This unit starts
to play files in the folder being played
in random order. Press again to cancel.
If you press and hold until you hear a
beep, (disc icon) and RAND is indicated in the
display. This unit starts to play files in
all folders on the disc being played in
random order. Press again to cancel.

More info on files can be found on page 56 of the manual.

motofan · 07-05-2012, 10:43 PM

sounds like 2^8-1

Bg8780 · 07-06-2012, 01:22 PM

Could be an issue with the file structure. If the unit isn't able to read NTFS then the max it can read is 4gb. Which is the limitation of FAT32.

Kurenai · 07-06-2012, 01:49 PM

The limitation of FAT32 isn't 4GB of total space, it is that a single file can't be >4GB in size.

(The total drive size support of FAT32 is 2TB (or 16TB, depending on the sector size))

07-05-2012, 11:54 AM	#2
7thgear i'm sorry, what? Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: Canada Location: I rock a beat harder than you can beat it with rocks Posts: 4,399 Thanks: 357 Thanked 2,506 Times in 1,268 Posts Mentioned: 40 Post(s) Tagged: 3 Thread(s)	split them up into folders? __________________ don't you think if I was wrong, I'd know it?

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Lil Abner Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: 2013 FR-S, 6MT, Ultramarine Location: Dublin, OH Posts: 161 Thanks: 6 Thanked 123 Times in 22 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Can you do random even with folders? It would be something to try I guess.

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jeebus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Drives: 2015 Mustang GT (on order) Location: San Diego Posts: 904 Thanks: 114 Thanked 471 Times in 208 Posts Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I don't have a BRZ yet, but all my other cars with USB allow for full random of songs throughout all folders.

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motofan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: 10 VW GTI Location: Oregon Posts: 156 Thanks: 15 Thanked 25 Times in 20 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	sounds like 2^8-1

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Bg8780 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: '13 Black Subaru BRZ Limited Location: All over Posts: 479 Thanks: 439 Thanked 156 Times in 96 Posts Mentioned: 6 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Could be an issue with the file structure. If the unit isn't able to read NTFS then the max it can read is 4gb. Which is the limitation of FAT32.

07-06-2012, 01:49 PM	#11
Kurenai Member Join Date: May 2012 Drives: 2013 Scion FR-S Hot Lava 6AT Location: United States Posts: 53 Thanks: 1 Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The limitation of FAT32 isn't 4GB of total space, it is that a single file can't be >4GB in size. (The total drive size support of FAT32 is 2TB (or 16TB, depending on the sector size))

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