Uconnect flash/harddrive format and question

[HzrInAz]

On my 2012 JK I had music play lists on a flash drive, and it seemed to work well. have music on a different hard drive and it shows an error on the media screen for my 2020 JT. Anyone know how to get this to work? What formats are compatible? How do I need to organize the folders etc? I have the premium sound with 8.4" display. TIA

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[WhatExit?]

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/...ng-pos-garage-opener.28775/page-5#post-480387

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/uconnect-usb-media-player.7132/

 

[Jeepmonster]

On my 2012 JK I had music play lists on a flash drive, and it seemed to work well. have music on a different hard drive and it shows an error on the media screen for my 2020 JT. Anyone know how to get this to work? What formats are compatible? How do I need to organize the folders etc? I have the premium sound with 8.4" display. TIA

I had a similar issue when I tried playing MP3 files on my USB thumb drive on my Gladiator (also with 8.4 display). I read an online thread somewhere else that UConnect can only read external USB drives 32 GB and below. I tried a smaller one (a 16 GB) and it worked fine. Even the correct album art displayed on the screen. My 32 GB iPod still doesn't work. I've read other owners having the same issue, but I haven't pursued the iPod issue any further. I'll eventually get to it. Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

[Smittie]

On my 2012 JK I had music play lists on a flash drive, and it seemed to work well. have music on a different hard drive and it shows an error on the media screen for my 2020 JT. Anyone know how to get this to work? What formats are compatible? How do I need to organize the folders etc? I have the premium sound with 8.4" display. TIA

I have a 2021 Gladiator with a 7" display system. I have verified that FAT and NTFS formatted 128 gb flash drives can be used on my system. Linux ext4 formatting does not work. It takes several minutes for the system to scan the entire drive and make the 'Browser' available but once complete, all of the files on the drive were visible and playable. It seems to be the case that if I do not remove the flash drive, the system does not need to rebuild its internal list. The flash drive content is immediately available.

On the flash drive the music files were organized /Artist/Album/song.mp3. The Uconnect system was able to read and sort by ID3 genre, song, album and artist. M3U playlists work provided that relative paths are used, not absolute paths. ID3 tags that contain non-latin character sets (in my case Japanese)appear to cause some problems.

mp3, flac, wav and MP4 AAC encoded files all seem to play on my system. I have not tested bit rates and sample rates.

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