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Now got a pioneer headunit in my audio,but although I have about 400 songs on a micro stick,it only plays 25, it will play all on my laptop,any ideas?
Maybe the file structure, are they in folders? Odd characters in the title or too many letters? Bitrate?
What programme are you playing on laptop, and are they downloaded or CD rip'd?
its been burned onto a dvd from ituunes playlist,then saved onto mini usb
Could be file format, maybe? i-w--k sometimes uses odd formats (m4a, I think)
Will it play the same tracks happily if they're the only things on the stick? (Ie, is it a problem with the encoding or the file structure?)
I had a similar issue with my Kenwood, it would play a number of tracks, then show 'NA', and I'd have to skip forward a few times to find a track it would play. Something about number of tracks in a folder limited to 255 or something.
I've just cleared all the spurious stuff off my old iPhone 4 and I'm using that as an iPod touch with about 25Gb of music on and CoPilot Live for navigation. The stereo seems to have no problem with file or folder hierarchy on the phone, so I wonder why a USB stick causes issues.
Is everything in the same format? Some of the units will only play specific formats and can be quite fussy.
Long shot - do the instructions tell you anything about structure etc?
I had the same problem with my Kenwood head unit, it is usually down to folder structure. The Kenwood can handle 255 folders containing 255 files, at the moment I have 1 album per folder, there are about 200 albums on the stick in the car and the head unit will play them all.
As the previous poster mentioned, the instructions will give you the file structure the unit can handle.