USB Music

[turboit]

[MENTION=653]Marc Collins[/MENTION]

I'm using WMA right now and it works great.

Link to manual
https://www.kiastinger.org/forum/threads/1381-Kia-Stinger-Multimedia-System-User-s-Manual

 

[Marc Collins]

[MENTION=653]Marc Collins[/MENTION]

I'm using WMA right now and it works great.

Link to manual
https://www.kiastinger.org/forum/threads/1381-Kia-Stinger-Multimedia-System-User-s-Manual

Thanks for link!

What size USB stick and how many albums/songs do you have on it?

 

[turboit]

Thanks for link!

What size USB stick and how many albums/songs do you have on it?

I'm using a 64gb with about 200 songs.

 

[Marc Collins]

I'm using a 64gb with about 200 songs.

And sorry to be pedantic, but you are using WMA Lossless Best Quality (470-940 Kbps)?

 

[turboit]

And sorry to be pedantic, but you are using WMA Lossless Best Quality (470-940 Kbps)?

I believe I had it set to 192Kbps.

 

[Marc Collins]

I believe I had it set to 192Kbps.

OK...my question was about lossless quality, but thanks for trying to be helpful.

 

[Tri-Cities Owner]

Great thread!! I gave up using USB stick in my current car because FLAC and/or the large volume of music files was too slow to load (initially and if changing albums/artists) and album art didn't work. Use an iPod instead, which works perfectly.

I would love to go back to USB stick when I get my Stinger. So much expertise here, so I will ask rather than attempting tedious research myself:

My responses to your questions:

1. I am using (as previously noted) a USB 256GB stick and I have no idea if the files load faster/slower since I don't have a USB 2.0 stick with the same files to use.

2. Again, I can't make a direct comparison since all of my files were ripped with FLAC but it takes at most about 8-10 seconds for the USB stick to load and start playing.

3. FLAC files work great and, if I am not mistaken, the m4a files are not supported.

4. Album artwork is an interesting topic. I ripped my files directly from the CD's with the result that some album artwork is displayed but others are not. Previously, when using iTunes I always thought that the album artwork was loaded by accessing the web. Now I wonder if the album artwork jpg is stored directly on the CD.

5. I have almost 3,000 files loaded on my USB stick and it loads quickly and without a problem. After researching the topic on my own I chose FLAC as being the best file format for ripping the songs.

 

[Marc Collins]

Great thread!! I gave up using USB stick in my current car because FLAC and/or the large volume of music files was too slow to load (initially and if changing albums/artists) and album art didn't work. Use an iPod instead, which works perfectly.

I would love to go back to USB stick when I get my Stinger. So much expertise here, so I will ask rather than attempting tedious research myself:

My responses to your questions:

1. I am using (as previously noted) a USB 256GB stick and I have no idea if the files load faster/slower since I don't have a USB 2.0 stick with the same files to use.

2. Again, I can't make a direct comparison since all of my files were ripped with FLAC but it takes at most about 8-10 seconds for the USB stick to load and start playing.

3. FLAC files work great and, if I am not mistaken, the m4a files are not supported.

4. Album artwork is an interesting topic. I ripped my files directly from the CD's with the result that some album artwork is displayed but others are not. Previously, when using iTunes I always thought that the album artwork was loaded by accessing the web. Now I wonder if the album artwork jpg is stored directly on the CD.

5. I have almost 3,000 files loaded on my USB stick and it loads quickly and without a problem. After researching the topic on my own I chose FLAC as being the best file format for ripping the songs.

Thanks for the detailed answer!

What software do you use to rip to FLAC? As mentioned, Windows/Windows Media Player has its own lossless format that outputs to .WMA files. .WMA is also used for lossy formats, so that doesn't really distinguish the quality level by itself. After I get the car and try it, I could switch to FLAC format itself if that is better.

My iPod flawlessly produces album art...not sure exactly how. I'd rather not take up a bunch of space in the car with it, though, if I don't have to. This wouldn't be an issue if the car had a or its data port in the bin in the centre console where most cars have them (so you have room for things like iPods or big phones).

 

[GDI Guy]

Exact Audio Copy is a great free software to rip FLAC from CD. [MENTION=653]Marc Collins[/MENTION]
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

 

[Tri-Cities Owner]

I use CyberLink Power2Go 11 which came as part of the bundled CyberLink Power DVD Software package. BTW the 2965 songs (rock, etc with no jazz and classical yet) have an average 23.6 MB file size.

 

[Marc Collins]

I use CyberLink Power2Go 11 which came as part of the bundled CyberLink Power DVD Software package. BTW the 2965 songs (rock, etc with no jazz and classical yet) have an average 23.6 MB file size.

And what file format do you output to?

 

[Tri-Cities Owner]

and what file format do you output to?

flac

 

[djole78]

So is it definitely not possible to use voice control to select individual songs off of USB drive?

 

[RandallK]

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.. but I have ripped out the factory amp and have converted the SPDIF over copper to a single ended connection that is going to a processor.


A friend of mine sent me a Cambridge Audio home DAC as it shows you the sample rate coming from the radio..

I cannot get any track either WAV or FLAC ripped higher than 48k to play ?i have tried 96k & 192k?. Can you confirm the sample rate you are using?

Thank you!!

I have my drive (64GB USB 2.0 sandisk) in exFAT, organized by Artist/Album/Song.FLAC and the device is fully searchable through the UVO system, and displays elapsed time, percentage bar, song total time, and album art on all of my music.

 

[Tri-Cities Owner]

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.. but I have ripped out the factory amp and have converted the SPDIF over copper to a single ended connection that is going to a processor.


A friend of mine sent me a Cambridge Audio home DAC as it shows you the sample rate coming from the radio..

I cannot get any track either WAV or FLAC ripped higher than 48k to play ?i have tried 96k & 192k?. Can you confirm the sample rate you are using?

Thank you!!

I use CyberLink Power2GO11 to convert my audio files to FLAC. The only option available on my software for the sampling rate for FLAC is that it will use the sampling rate of the original source and no higher sampling rate can be chosen. I used a source at 192k and was therefore able to convert to FLAC format at 192k sampling rate. I haven't checked the sampling rate limitations for WAV but I suspect you may run into the same problem.

 

[Tri-Cities Owner]

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.. but I have ripped out the factory amp and have converted the SPDIF over copper to a single ended connection that is going to a processor.

Now that I have more carefully read your thread I am somewhat confused by the above statement. S/PDIF output can be transmitted either over RCA Coaxial Cable or optically using either Toslink or Mini-Toslink. So is your conversion to single ended copper using the right interface and therefore possibly causing the problem?

 

[slammered]

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.. but I have ripped out the factory amp and have converted the SPDIF over copper to a single ended connection that is going to a processor.


A friend of mine sent me a Cambridge Audio home DAC as it shows you the sample rate coming from the radio..

I cannot get any track either WAV or FLAC ripped higher than 48k to play ?i have tried 96k & 192k?. Can you confirm the sample rate you are using?

Thank you!!

Can you share some photos over your amp conversion? I need to do this.

If anyone else is interested CUETools is a great free FLAC ripper http://cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download