StonedCL

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I bought a 2 gig USB card from best buy today. It is a PNY 2gb high-speed USB 2.0 drive. I started filling it with songs but after about 1/2 a gb it says can not write the song title. I tried many duferent songs thinking the file might be damaged and no luck. I erased everything and reformated and started all over and same thing happen when I got to the same point (about 150 songs) I checked free space and 75% is still empty but can not put anymore on!! I tried it in the car and it worked but I would rather have 600 songs then 150! I can't seem to put anymore on there! Please help?? Btw it's a non nav tsx!

StonedCL

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When playing the USB flash drive in the car on the way to work , I realized that I have to go into a folder to get to the songs.. Is there only a certain number of songs I can put in one folder, Is that why they are not filling up the card?
Should I make like 4 or 5 diff folders and fill up each folder?

tsx-pwp-nj

There is a limit to how many songs (or individual files) can be on the root level of a file system.
You can get more songs on a USB card by organizing in folders.
You can read more and see a better explanation here:
http://forums.mobymemory.com/shwmess...1&messageid=34

bjohnston115

def not a prob with the car... sounds like you have a faulty flash drive. When you reformat it make sure you format the entire 2 gb and not just a portion of it. Also format to fat32, i dont think ntfs is recognizable by the car. if that doesnt work, return it and get a new one.

MrOtocinclus

Please note that this limitation applies only for FAT16 volumes, which more than likely your USB drive would not be using.

FAT32, which is what your USB drive should be using, does not have the root directory file limit.

StonedCL

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The songs play in the car and sound GREAT, its just the card can not be filled.. when i re-formated to fat32 it has 1.86GB of storage and I only saved about 500MB.. I am going to try to make 4 folders and fill each folder when I get home tonight, I think that is the problem. When i press the main know in it says folder 1 and have to press it again to get to the songs, so I am going to make 4 folders and that SHOULD work.. I will let you know?
Has anyone used a USB drive for there songs, I think its alot easier and cheaper then using a IPOD.. If you have used it, how many GB was the card and did you have to make different folders then put the about 1/2GB in each folder?

tsx-pwp-nj

I have an 8 GB card with about 40 folders. Each one being an album.
No problems.

MrOtocinclus

I, too, have an 8gb stick and I have no problems filling it up with more than 500 megs in the root. Have you tried filling the drive with other files besides music? As bjohnston said, you may have a defective and/or fake USB drive. It's not uncommon for Best Buy to place returns back on the shelf and pass them off as new.

TheGoodGuy

Sounds like a problem with the flash drive.

Replace it.

By the way I now have a 20gb HDD in the center console (laptop 2.5" drive) that is formatted Fat32.

I have over 300+ folders. Plenty of music for my drives.

Oh after you download your music, get a program called "foldersort.zip", install, sort the folders & subfolders (check box on right) for that drive.

Fat32 means the car reads the folders/files in the order it was copied in and not the order you want it to be in. Foldersort.zip takes care of it. Google for it.

StonedCL

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All I put on there was music.. The Only reason I bought it was for the car..
I will try to break it down into diff folders right now and see how it goes, if not back to best buy I go!

StonedCL

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OK I did it... What u have to do is creat a folder and then you can put them into that folder. I never created a folder just draged the songs in there and thats why it did not allow it. I created a folder and then opened the folder and put 500 songs into that folder so the whold 2 GB fit in that folder.. I now realize I need a bigger flash drive cuz i was only able to copy about 25% of my music.. Dam tecnology is getting bigger and better by the day.. I remember my first computer was a IBM 486 SX 25MHZ 4MB RAM and 180MB hard drive and I was the shit dialing up to AOL...LOL...and that cost like $2000!!!

MrOtocinclus

Glad you got it figured out. My first computer was a 386 with 40 megs of hard drive space. I actually had to decide which games I wanted to keep and which I wanted to delete... not a problem these days with 8 cents per gigabyte prices.

09TSXTech

Mine was an AT 286 w/640K ram and 40mb HD MS-DOS and monochrome monitor for C$2000 back in 1987. Now I have an 8 GB flash drive in the TSX. Man do I feel old.

TheGoodGuy

Oh we're playing that game eh:

First computer: Digital PDP-11 (okay it was my dad's)

First real computer: IBM PC-AT - 8088 processor. CGA Graphics

First home computer: Sinclair ZX80 (similar to the Commodore 64). - This hooks to a TV

First computer I built: IBM 386-DX40 overclocked to 66mhz. 16mb ram, 1mb video card, 540mb HDD, 9600baud modem. It had a 16bit sound card, cdrom and a color VGA monitor.

rdevillers

OK - you want old!? In 1988, I was an assistant IT Manager for a financial services firm. I purchased four, 250MB disk drives for a DEC VAX we had. Each drive cost $25,000. Yes - in 1988 a gigabyte of disk space cost $100,000!

So the capacity of your run-of-the-mill, $129 Western Digital 1TB "My Book" external disk drive you buy at Costco would have cost $100,000,000 in 1988. Talk about deflation.

AND - the drives needed to be housed in a specially cooled, raised-floor, computer room. If you even breathed wrong near those drives the read-write heads would crash.

StonedCL

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this thread is showing all our true ages.. LOL..
The youngens are like whats 486sx and dx?

fw_fw

First home computer - Commodore VIC-20 with Cassette Storage

First real computer - CompuAdd 80286 8 MHz (Overclocked to 9.1 MHz) with 512KB Ram and Hercules Monochrome Graphics

...and was proud to have them both!!!

Colin

Oh good lord. OK, I'll toss my hat into the "old computer" memories.... First computer was a C64, followed by a Franklin Ace Apple IIe clone. Briefly had an Apple IIc with an Epson MX-80 printer. No computer again till a Packard Bell 486/25 that I kept for a week and sold. Replaced with a Gateway 486/33 with Local Bus Video! Whooohoo! Favorite old computer memory? Trying to edit HiMemSys to get 600k of memory to get Indycar by Papyrus to load. Ahh, those were the days... Memory Managers!

MrOtocinclus

Oh crap, that was one of my favorite games, Indycar by Papyrus. Good times, good times...