

Its interface is a little confusing, mostly controllable with the touch screen but offering some menu navigation and selection from a dial on the center stack. The CTS-V still features a motorized LCD, showing navigation when deployed and neatly leaving a little ribbon of screen available for audio information when recessed. Demonstrating the lack of synchronicity between electronics and automotive development, what were cutting-edge features in 2008 now appear dated and react slowly, at least compared with my expectations. Not so fresh is the CTS-V Wagon's cabin tech.

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Have also tried Windows Media Player on two different computers, same results there, so problem does not seem to be WMP, computers, or flash drives.The look of this 2013 CTS-V Wagon remains fresh, and the example delivered to CNET showed off a sparkly tri-coat paint job, satin-black rims, and yellow brake calipers. I am not a computer geek or techie, so do not overwhelm me with technical jargon.īTW have tried two different brands of flash drives. Adding a hard wired CD changer is out of the question since this car is leased, and after 3 years may exchange it for another car.Īny help or suggestions will be most appreciated. Also a flash drive would save a lot of space compared to 50 or more CDs. I was hoping to put most or all of my CDs onto a flash drive since my newest auto a 2015 Prius only holds one CD at a time in the player unlike my 2010 Camry that holds up to 4 CDs at once. I am not even close to using 1gb yet due to this problem. I have been using Windows Media Player to create the flash drive files, so that does not seem to be the problem, since all the songs play and show the title on my computers, and some of them play and show information on my car's display, but others do not.Īny suggestions. Song does not play, no name of artist, etc. When I go to the menu and select a song from that particular album, I get a symbol of a USB connection for a second or two on the display screen, and then nothing at all. Some of the songs from the CDs show up and play just fine with the album cover, name of the song and artist, but others do not play at all. I have ripped some CDs into my computer, and then synched them to a flash drive to use in my car. Was this file placed on the root of your device, or in a custom folder? I DO have "show all files" enabled on my PC, but I wonder if this is a system file, which is still hidden with "hide protected operating system files". REALLY!!!! Ok, thank you! I never would have looked for a temp file created my my radio.

Once you have a fresh copy of media stored on the USB, unhide all folders/files to make sure there are no hidden folders/files on the drive, after that plug it in your car stereo, play a few songs randomly, disconnect, and connect back to the computer and see if you can any hidden files that are created, if yes then deleted them should solve it for you. I then started deleting that temp file whenever I added new content, and it worked normally. The problem there was that the ASUS media player created a temp file that stored the listings of the USB when it was first inserted into the media player, after that, even if I added new media, it will not show it, until I formatted the drive. I have had similar problems with my media device. I use the RidgeCrop Format tool ( ) with a 4096 allocation size, each time I need to reformat the USB drive. I don't understand why the car doesn't see folders added but does see tracks added to existing folders. The process of re-formatting and re-copying 6500+ tracks takes about 3 hours and is a real pain. Once this is done the car sees the new artist along with the older stuff. So, whenever I add a new artist (folder), I need to RE-FORMAT the drive, then copy everything, including the new folder, back to the drive. However, if I add mp3's to a folder that already exists, the car DOES see and plays them fine.
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MY ISSUE: When I add a NEW FOLDER, the car never sees it (yet my PC does). The car IS ABLE to see and play everything perfectly. I have about 6500 track on it, with 119 folders. I format this drive to FAT32 (the only file system the car can read) using an external tool. My Radio can see the USB drive and plays the music directly from it. I have a 64GB SanDisk Cruiser Fit USB drive that I copy my music too (in. Hi everyone, I've got an issue that I hope someone can enlighten me on.
