USB File Read Error for MP3's?

[CS Safety]

Good morning. I am a retired mobile DJ and have a massive music collection. (Mainly MP3's now). Like many on here, I have purchased some brand new 32gb USB's to try to enjoy some of this in my new gladiator. I have them properly formatted to be compatible with the Uconnect system. For whatever reason, there are multiple songs that show on the library, but give me a "file read error" and will not play. I have checked the file formats, checked the titles, gone through all the details in each of the problematic file's data. I can't find any formatting issues that are causing the file read error, either in the Uconnect system, on the USB, or within the file data of any of the mp3's that are giving me issues. I can't find any characters in the titles or details that might cause this. Is anyone having this same issue? Can you think of anything I can check or anything that I might be doing wrong? Thanks ahead of time for any input. (And Happy Thanksgiving to all).

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[Mr._Bill]

Good morning. I am a retired mobile DJ and have a massive music collection. (Mainly MP3's now). Like many on here, I have purchased some brand new 32gb USB's to try to enjoy some of this in my new gladiator. I have them properly formatted to be compatible with the Uconnect system. For whatever reason, there are multiple songs that show on the library, but give me a "file read error" and will not play. I have checked the file formats, checked the titles, gone through all the details in each of the problematic file's data. I can't find any formatting issues that are causing the file read error, either in the Uconnect system, on the USB, or within the file data of any of the mp3's that are giving me issues. I can't find any characters in the titles or details that might cause this. Is anyone having this same issue? Can you think of anything I can check or anything that I might be doing wrong? Thanks ahead of time for any input. (And Happy Thanksgiving to all).

It's probably a hardware limitation of the Uconnect system. Try it with some 16GB USB sticks and see if it behaves any better.

 

[hjdca]

Good morning. I am a retired mobile DJ and have a massive music collection. (Mainly MP3's now). Like many on here, I have purchased some brand new 32gb USB's to try to enjoy some of this in my new gladiator. I have them properly formatted to be compatible with the Uconnect system. For whatever reason, there are multiple songs that show on the library, but give me a "file read error" and will not play. I have checked the file formats, checked the titles, gone through all the details in each of the problematic file's data. I can't find any formatting issues that are causing the file read error, either in the Uconnect system, on the USB, or within the file data of any of the mp3's that are giving me issues. I can't find any characters in the titles or details that might cause this. Is anyone having this same issue? Can you think of anything I can check or anything that I might be doing wrong? Thanks ahead of time for any input. (And Happy Thanksgiving to all).

fyi, I am running 1000 songs in .wav format ripped from my CDs (using ITunes) on a 128 gig 3.0 USB stick with no problems -- roughly 33 gig of songs. My stick is plugged into the rear USB connections. I never reformatted the stick, I used it as is out of the box. I am using just standard folders with .wav files and no images, so, it is not pretty, but, it works perfect and it is fast. I have the JTR with the upgraded stereo option.

PS. I am very impressed with the thickness and fullness of the sound with full data .wav files. The stereo sounds 10 times better than with Sirius or other lossy formats. The bass, subwoofer, midrange come alive. I think the stereo gets a bad rap because nobody ever tries it with CD quality songs.

PSS. The stereo will NOT recognize .aif files (apple lossless), and I have not tried FLAC.

 

[elarse1]

Good morning. I am a retired mobile DJ and have a massive music collection. (Mainly MP3's now). Like many on here, I have purchased some brand new 32gb USB's to try to enjoy some of this in my new gladiator. I have them properly formatted to be compatible with the Uconnect system. For whatever reason, there are multiple songs that show on the library, but give me a "file read error" and will not play. I have checked the file formats, checked the titles, gone through all the details in each of the problematic file's data. I can't find any formatting issues that are causing the file read error, either in the Uconnect system, on the USB, or within the file data of any of the mp3's that are giving me issues. I can't find any characters in the titles or details that might cause this. Is anyone having this same issue? Can you think of anything I can check or anything that I might be doing wrong? Thanks ahead of time for any input. (And Happy Thanksgiving to all).

Mine won't read any of the files past 16 GB, so about half of my songs show up in the 8.4" Alpine system. Sadly, my 2014 Camry can read a 128 GB USB drive with no issues, but my 2020 Gladiator can't get past a 16 GB. @JeepCares, I submitted this as an issue almost two years ago now, is there a fix?

-Erik

 

[RatZer0]

Some things I've found to cause the UConnect system to throw an error that might be similiar:

- Character length of any field in the metadata
- file size/storage media size
- Using non-alphabet characters in any field in the metadata
- corrupted sections in the media the music is stored on
- storage media formatted improperly/badly formatted or not in the correct file format
- there's legacy programs/apps/batch files on the media used
- corrupted music file - if there's bad bits in a music file it may just refuse to play it at all
- music was compressed using an old/buggy MP3 compression method

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