I just purchased a 2025 MDX Advance and cannot get the usb port in the center console to play my audio files.

 

Are the audio files in one of the formats the car can read? From what I recall, there are some odd restrictions on file types, bitrates, etc. The USB device also has to be formatted the way it wants.

 

The USB must use fat32 format, or it won’t work.

 

exFAT also works on my 2022 MDX, not sure if it would work on a 2025 though. I know NTFS won't work.
Windows can't format a USB drive above 32gigs using Fat32, so you need a third-party disk utility to do that. I think I used guiformat which was easy to do.

 

I had to format my USB’s to fat32 to use them in my 2025 ADX. I used a free program to format my 64gb drives to fat32; it was easy and worked great.
I uploaded my CD collection (450+ CDs) to my laptop using lossless music format and then uploaded them to USBs.
I used 64gb drives because it takes a while for the stereo to index the drives and I did not want to go to too many gbs as it takes longer to index the more storage that is used. Staying at 32gbs or less would have required to many drives.

 

FYI, this restriction exists because the FAT32 file system is unstable with volumes >32GB.

You can use 3rd party tools i.e. HP Disk Format Utility, but you run a greater risk of data corruption. That said, flash memory shouldn't be used for long-term storage anyways.

 

I am using a 256gb flash drive. It has been formatted to Fat32. The music on it is a mp3 file. Nothing seems to be working. Is it possible the port is faulity?

 

try another flash drive to rule that out

 

^Not only that, try a flash drive that's 32GB or smaller. And see my post above yours.

 

I have changed to a 32gb formatted to fat32 mp3 files and still not working.

 

Any chance that stick had a read light on it? Did the light blink at all? If the stick doesn't have a read light, can you try one that does?

Trying to figure out if the USB port is at least getting power and if the car is trying to read the stick.

 

Plug in your phone and see if it will read that via USB