USB thumb drive support to play mp3's?
 

I tried, with no luck, to plug in a usb thumb drive with mp3's on it and play them on the stereo. But the console did not recognize there was a device present. the drive was getting power 'cause the lights were blinking on it, but just can't seem to play the media on it.

Does the Z support thumb drives, or does it have to be a 'smart' device like an ipod or a zune?

As far as I know it supports ipod not sure about others probably others can inform you.

i know it supports ipod. what i'm trying to find out is if it supports usb thumb drives.

As I said not sure. It should make sure your format is really mp3 or wma.

I'm going to guess that big is onto something. Are your files actually mp3s or are they AAC files? AAC are not mp3.

well, they have an mp3 extension. do AAC files have an mp3 extension? If so, how do you tell if they're AAC?

I can verify that the stereo in the touring version (at least the one with Nav) plays mp3s from a USB drive. You have to switch to the aux inputs.

If they've got the mp3 extension, then you should be good as far a format goes.

AAC is not mp3 your going to have to convert them.

Still having no luck with mp3's. On the screen it keeps showing: "Check USB memory or iPod" Does anyone know what that means?

Means there is nothing on the thumb drive that it will play or recognize.

well, either it doesn't like mp3's or the two usb drives i tried plugging in. Probably the latter. :shakes head:

Did you try reformatting the thumb drive? Or at least checking to see what format the drive had on it.

I ran into a sort of similar problem with my Kenwood when trying to update the startup screen. The drive that I had what formatted for DOS Fat16 and wouldn't work. Even though it had worked for a navigation update. I reformatted to Fat32 and it worked fine.

It is probably the wrong format. Google a mp3 converter convert a few pieces of music and just drag and drop them onto your thumb drive and try that.

You may need to format the drive as FAT32 (if its currently NTFS) or vice versa. My kenwood deck would only recognize thumb drives formatted using a certain file system.

Most thumb drives at fat32 anyway unless he reformatted it.

Ah, that must be it Freddy! The drive was definitely reformatted as NTFS, i'll have to reformat as FAT32 when i return home this weekend. I'll update with results.

NTFS is newer than fat32. You system should be able to read that as well

You would think, but we're talking essentially about an audio device not a pc.

formatting thumb drive to FAT32 fixed problem. Thanks all for input. So on to video! What video formats will it play? So far i tried playing an avi and an mp4 with no luck. Any suggestions?

I'm fairly certain thats not a possibility with the stock system.

Yup, I'm pretty sure you can only play videos from a device with a video out and not from the USB port

I had trouble getting my 2010 Nissan Maxima (Premium and Technology packages) to accept my MP3 player. I, too, received the "check USB memory or ipod" message. I found this thread while googling the problem. I formatted my Sansa Fuze to FAT32 and I have my own music in my car now! Thank you ~ thank you ~ thank you!!!

I play MP3s ALL the time on my USB drive (I leave it laying in the armrest for when I don't feel like bringing my Touch). (or did I musunderstand the question...?)

glad we could help Kathy, stop by and visit more often, we need more women on this forum :tup:

I will! :p

USB Thumb drive needs periodic re-connection
 

I use a usb thumb drives (8 Gbytes, fat32 and MP3 files) on my 370Z with Navi. The top level folders are albums and mp3 files reside within them) and all works great...except that periodically (once every couple of days) I get a no USB device found error. This is remedied by un-plugging and then re-connecting the thumb drive. Most of the time the error occurs when I switch to the USB device from the radio or hard drive, but on some rare cases, the disconnect happens between songs. I have tried a couple of different makes of USB drives with no improvment.

Anybody else have this issue and if so, any remedies? I understand that there is a Nissan update for the NAVI sound system's firmware but have been unable to find any info on that update. Is there any method to copu contents of a thumb drive onto the NAVI's hard drive?

I didn't have any of those issues when I used a flash drive. Not sure if the update by Nissan will have any effect (the letter acts as if it's just to update for the iPhone 4).

I think I asked the question about the hard drive in the system and I believe the answer was the ONLY way to get songs to the HD was via playing a CD.

Hi ,
I play videos on my MY2010.

1. The USB device is formatted in FAT32
2. The videos are .avi, the format is MP4 (Divx). I tryed with some other formats and it didnt work. So you have eventually to convert your videos to a divx format. I use the freeware "any video converter" for this.

Good luck

I have TRIED over and over again to convert video to my USB drive and play in my car and I can not move it work. It shows up on the screen for all videos on it and acts to play it but then say unplayable file. Could you tell me what Im doing wrong. Thank you