Fr-S Radio USB playback in slow motion?
 

Is anyone else having this trouble? I have about 8-10 gigs of music on a flash drive in folders. The car can discover all the music (yay) and shuffle back and forth between songs. However, some of the songs play back in RIDICULOUS slow-mo. These can be songs on the same album, too.

I have pulled them up on the computer and they seem to play fine. Changing the file name doesn't affect the outcome either. I would say about 20% of my songs play way too slow. Then about 3-4% of them play WAY too fast - sounds like the chipmunks.

Any ideas? If nobody else has encountered this I might have to assume that my head unit is defective :(

Hmmm... I have 15GB of music on my drive, and everything works perfectly. Are these all MP3 files, or do you have a mixture of audio file types? Also refer to pages 54 through 57 of the radio manual for file type and folder limitations (if this is the standard Pioneer unit).

I have never encountered that issue (nor have that much music on my thumb drive) but maybe a few things to try out:

-File name shouldn't change much, but check the codecs and see if they are all the same. However, I think the files are probably fine.

-My initial thought is that it's playing catchup. Your USB drive and/or the car's usb port could have slower speed ratings so one of them is bottlenecking.

-8-10gb is a lot of data and it can effect read/write speeds (aka maybe you have a slow usb drive)

-And last but not least, it could be just Toyota's software (which is not necessarily defective). It is pretty rudimentary after all, these systems are not full computers and USB specifications are insanely complicated. So the developers have to pick and choose what features that will cover most users.

EDIT: And I agree with cwb48, I forgot about the file number limitations too

it's got to be 1 of 2 things, as previously mentioned the USB stick might not be fast enough.

the other problem could be codecs and bit rates, if they are not consistent or not supported by the deck then that could be your problem.

Look at the codec, especially the sampling rate. Many players have a hard time with non-standard sampling rates, and though it's rare to find music at something other than 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz, some could be out there, and embedded players might not know what to do with them. Maybe it's defaulting to the lower clock rate.

It's not the thumb drive. It would have to be audio-modem speed be seem slow for an mp3. They've never been made that slow. Besides, no player I've ever known underclocked when the data came in slow--they paused until the stream caught up.

OP, did you encode these files yourself from CD, and if so, what program and bit rate did you use?

Bump. I've got the same problem.

Have you found the fix?

ended up "fixing" the problem.

the unit has trouble playing m4a files (oddly it can play some m4a songs), so just convert them to mp3 in itunes.