USB Hard Drive Music

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bignickb85

Discussion Starter · May 24, 2010

Just purchased a SLE on saturday and I was reading through the user manual tonight and noticed that it said while having a usb storage device plugged in, the interface will only read the first 2500 songs, is this true? I was looking to build a permanently connected 250 gig hard drive into the center arm rest with all the music i have. Currently i have been using my 30 gig ipod with no issues but i have more music than the ipod can hold. Any ideas? Has anyone used a large hard drive with over 2500 songs on it? I feel like this is a great idea to replace the 40gig that comes built in the higher end model.

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gearhead

· #2 · May 24, 2010

Welcome bignickb85.

This has been discussed many times in the past.
Probably the best suggestion is to get several 4GB USB sticks and put your songs on them.
Insert the USB you want to play and let music controller sort and index the songs, it only takes a few seconds.

As you stated, the limit is 2500 songs that the music controller can index and sort properly.

chasmo

· #3 · May 24, 2010

I have been using Micro SD disks, 4 and 8 MB both, with a Sandisc USB adapter. This works perfect, The micro SD plays in my cell phone and SanDisc players. The adapter is only about 3/4" long so you don't have the extra length sticking out of the port and getting in the way.
I got the adapter at Radio Shack and look for the disc's on sale.

Roesterman

· #4 · May 24, 2010

chasmo said:
I have been using Micro SD disks, 4 and 8 MB both, with a Sandisc USB adapter. This works perfect, The micro SD plays in my cell phone and SanDisc players. The adapter is only about 3/4" long so you don't have the extra length sticking out of the port and getting in the way.
I got the adapter at Radio Shack and look for the disc's on sale.

Do you mean Micro SD cards not "Micro SD discs"?

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bignickb85

Discussion Starter · #5 · May 24, 2010

I appreciate ideas but it still kind of sucks that i can't have all of my music on one hard drive. I think its ridiculous if i have to carry 7 usb sticks in my car for my music library of 8000+ songs. I guess maybe the only other solution is get a large enough ipod.

gearhead

· #6 · May 24, 2010

bignickb85 said:
I appreciate ideas but it still kind of sucks that i can't have all of my music on one hard drive. I think its ridiculous if i have to carry 7 usb sticks in my car for my music library of 8000+ songs. I guess maybe the only other solution is get a large enough ipod.

Do a search for other threads about this topic, it's been covered quite a bit.
If I remember correctly, the 40GB hard drive is used as such:

30GB for NAV
10GB for music

Narg

· #7 · May 25, 2010

bignickb85 said:
my music library of 8000+ songs.

Wow, I'd never want to spend that much time in a car

FedorekC

· #8 · May 25, 2010

What about an external hard drive? I think those things come pretty big (GB-wise) and physically they are only like the size of an iPod (maybe a little bigger). It's like an enlarged USB stick...perhaps one of those would hold your gigantic stack of music!

Haha.

bignickb85

Discussion Starter · #9 · May 26, 2010

Not the issue. The issue is that the terrain will only read 2500 songs on the drive, so its like i would have to carry 5 drives with 2500 songs each.

Cameron

· #10 · May 29, 2010

wouldnt be sucks a horrible idea aside from the cost of the drives. one for rock one for country etc.

this port will accept a standard USB thumb drive correct?

bignickb85

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 29, 2010

yes

JMach57

· #12 · Jun 8, 2010

Does it have any issues with iPods that have more than 2500 songs?

ScarletSpeedstr

· #13 · Jun 12, 2010

JMach57 said:
Does it have any issues with iPods that have more than 2500 songs?

I'm curious to know this as well. If it does, I'm losing access to more than 70% of my music. ???

bignickb85

Discussion Starter · #14 · Jun 14, 2010

Nope, i have a full 30 gig ipod into the usb port and all of my music can be accessed. I will say it is a bit slow at times or skips between some of the bands to select, but for the general purpose it does work and works pretty well.

ScarletSpeedstr

· #15 · Jun 14, 2010

bignickb85 said:
Nope, i have a full 30 gig ipod into the usb port and all of my music can be accessed.

Ahhh, that's a relief to know. Thanks for the reply.

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