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**pjp**

In article >, lcgh-
says...
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2019 19:34:55 -0300, pjp
> > wrote:
>
> >Thank God new to me car I just bought has fancy lcd screen type
> >interface. I finally have a car stereo plays mp3 directly from a cd and
> >includes usb and aux inputs as well. Only issue is you have to copy mp3
> >and picture files off the usb onto it's internal 30Gb hard drive and it
> >doesn't seem able to just play them directly off the usb device. Other
> >than takes times to copy not any real issue. Play does Random ... yea
> >haw!!! but looking at them they are in alphabetical order.
>
> My KIA Sorento only took 8-1/2 HOURS to load my 8100 songs from the
> USB.

Well this Chrylser only took approx 2 hours for 2,200 songs so seems
about same. Therefore I suspect more like I assume both are using USB
1.x and not even USB 2.x.

Just a bit of a drag can't simply play them directly from a flashdrive.
If I want to do that I'd need to use some external player and feed that
into the stereo's aux input. I notice it will also copy cds to the hard
disk. I suspect they'd be stored similar to a wav file and that would
chew up space fast on the small hard disk. I assume it would not do any
automatic compression of any sort so instead of a 5Mb mp3 file you'd end
up with a 50Mb wav file (or similar format). I can live with any slight
quality loss mp4's exibit, at almost 70 and one ear noticably different
in freguency range than the other it's a moot issue.

And just to add, stereo also will display pics but not videos, go
figure.

>
> I add a character (~) to the end of song titles of songs I really
> like, and add it twice (~~) to indicate my "top 60" favorites. Since
> it is the last character in the field, it does not affect sorting.
> After a recent KIA recall software upgrade (apparently unrelated to
> the radio at all), the "random" order setting insisted on playing only
> those from the Top 60, although those were played in random order. I
> had to rename the files on the USB stick to change ~~ to just ~ on
> those files, and then reload them all again to get it to work
> properly. It reloads all instead of just changed or new files(another
> 8.5 hours).
>
> Are they using Windows-10 as a software base <grin>?
>
> -dan z-