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Don't take this as insulting in any way, but do you guys in Oz have didgeridoo music on your drives?Just thought I'd ask...
Quote from: Shambles on July 03, 2008, 16:40:23Don't take this as insulting in any way, but do you guys in Oz have didgeridoo music on your drives?Just thought I'd ask...While this is bumped lol....Yep, I have a heap of Xavier Rudd songs on my USB stick, and he uses a didg quite extensively
How's this for a bump! Nearly 12 months! I wish I had read this far back in the history of the forum before lashing out on my 320GB Western Digital portable hard drive. Naturally being the way I am I had to buy the 320GB one despite the fact that now having ripped nearly all my CDs and adding all my MP3s I have just over 20 gig. The i30 has no problem reading the drive (which is in FAT32) but does have the other problem that has been mentioned in this thread, that of forgetting where it was up to when the vehicle is switched off. Much to my chagrin, it even forgets if I switch the car from ON to ACC and then restart it. My cunning plans of locking the key in the car while I go to pay for petrol fell flat because the cut in power to allow the engine to start is enough to kill the stereo's memory of where it was up to. I talked to my brother in law (who is one of those annoyingly successful IT types) and he is of the opinion that this happens because the drive has a physical drive in it and it needs to be spun up and read by the car every time it starts. So from the stereo's point of view the drive is effectively being plugged in anew every time the engine is started. That doesn't really explain the posts in the forum where someone had a proper portable drive that worked properly with the car, unless perhaps it started faster and the car was able to find where it was up to...?So after getting rather bored of hearing the same song EVERY TIME I START THE CAR, I lashed out on a 32GB memory stick (under $100 on eBay) and now she remembers where she was up to. And I have a used 320GB hard drive I paid too much for. So sorry to everyone for the bump, but I think it's a topic that bears bringing to the attention of newer members. The rule of thumb seems to be if you want the car to remember where you were up to in your music, get a solid-state hard drive or memory stick.
Don't think the physical drive needing to be spun up is in fact correct. I tried several experiments early on and partitioned a drive into a FAT32 and an NTFS, the latter for my work files and the former for the music. It worked fine, and continued playing the track from memory without reverting back to the first song. I can't remember what size the partition was, but it it was not the maximum of 32gb allowed in with Windows XP. However, when I formatted the total drive using a 3rd party FAT32 utility, then it always re-read the drive and started from scratch.Bob
It became such a drag removing the HDD (which I use at work) and plugging it in, that a decided to purchase a 16gb flash drive instead. This stays in the i30 all the time and works a treat. I posted the info about the HDD as there was a query about using the HDD.I'm with you foxey, the flash drive is much more convenient and can hold all the music I need plus more.Bob
Hi Bob,I bought a 16gb Lexar Firefly flash drive the other day from Officeworks for "just" under $50 (best value large capacity drive I could find locally).I am still trying to fill it up before testing it in the i30 (the way i'm going will fit my entire MP3 collection on it)Up to 215 albums (around 3000 songs) and still got 3GB more to fill
Dazz,I haven't added any to my 16gb stick lately - too busy I guess. Interestingly, I got 2 memory sticks for my daughters for Xmas (Sony) on eBay. Paid around $20 each for them (8 Gb). When they arrived, they turned out to be 32 Gb. What a bargain! Should have ordered a few more.Bob