Only 255 songs?
 

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?

split them up into folders?

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 :lol:

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

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

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

sounds like 2^8-1

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.

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))