MP3 files on USB thumb drive - some are missing

[WeirdFlex]

Have you tried formatting another drive in ExFAT, FAT32 and duplicating the data to compare?

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[Scott R Nelson]

Have you tried formatting another drive in ExFAT, FAT32 and duplicating the data to compare?

I spent some time trying to figure it out when I first noticed the issue. It isn't worth my time to dig into this any further. I thought I was over and done with it last March, but somebody restarted this thread, so here we are.

Nobody seems to know any facts about it, I'm not seeing others being bothered by it, so I'm not going to let it bother me either. I'll just listen to the music that the stereo recognizes and leave it at that. If every song were recognized, it's more than 64 hours of music. I only use the Bronco either for short errands or trips up into the hills, so 64 hours lasts me a long time (many months).

 

[Scott R Nelson]

An update on this - sort of.

I made another USB thumb drive with a different set of music on it - more songs, but many were the same as the one that I started this thread about.

This one had 2203 files on it and every one of them showed up. None missing at all.

Just one of those weird things about the Bronco, I guess.

 

[totaljustice]

Way late to the party but I discovered this thread after I recently noticed that I was having the same problem as the OP and Sync was not showing over 400 songs out of 5000 ish on my new 64Gb flash drive. The drive was in the exFat format and the songs all showed up on every other device I plugged the drive into. I downloaded different pieces of software to try and see if there was something wrong with the files but they were all normal. I just spent the last 3 days trying to figure out why this might be and was just about to give up this morning and a last ditch attempt seemed to solve the problem. I had originally named the drive but had a space in the drive name. I put an underscore where the space was and BAM!!! All the songs have magically appeared. I don't know what difference that change made but all the songs now show on the drive. Maybe this might help others that discover the same problem. Anyway this fix worked for me!!!

 

[Scott R Nelson]

A little more experience with this, for what it's worth...

I made another USB thumb drive with 1600 songs on it. I put it on an old PNY device that is rather slow. Slow enough that the system never "finds" it before switching to the radio. Then a little while later it's available. But all 1600 songs showed up.

So I copied it to a newer USB drive that's faster, changed one song out of all of them to a different one, and for some reason it wouldn't recognize all of the files. It found 1400+ of them. So I pulled it out and put it back in and it found a few more. This made me wonder about starting to listen before it's done indexing or something.

So I pulled it out, renamed the device to something slightly different, and renamed about ten songs as well. Enough of a change that it wasn't going to think it was still the old one.

When I plugged that in, it spent quite a long time searching for the old one before finally giving up, then I let it take its time before trying to listen to anything. This time it found all 1600 songs, but I'm still not quite sure exactly what I did to make that happen.

Anyway, I'm good for the next 85 hours of listening to my music in my Bronco. With as much as I've driven it lately, that should be good for a few months.

 

[23OBX2.7]

I paid high price for high speed / performance USB from Samsung and RagePro....they load up the hundreds of FLAC files within 15 sec or so of start up.

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