tickerguy

XC cards require exFAT. Unless the unit can read exFAT formatted cards it's a no-go. BTW do not attempt to reformat one of those cards as regular FAT. It will appear to work but somewhere down the road the card will get scrambled with everything on it being damaged or destroyed. The card itself is not physically damaged however; it can be reformatted (exFAT) successfully. The issue is that SDXC cards have a funky bank-switching and allocation system that is incompatible with pretty much all filesystem heuristics other than exFAT, and if you try to use them at some point the card's i

The biggest issue on a starting point is unlocking that storage card so you can get to it in other devices. I can understand why you didn't post the password, but that remains the key.... Getting root is easy once the card is unlocked -- mount it on another unix-style machine, stuff "su" in the /system directory and flag it SUID, then stick it back in the head unit! That also leads to another interesting thought -- if you stick a file manager in the system directory along with /bin/su, you should be able to navigate to an attached device (e.g. SD card in the front, attached USB disk,

"Go buy a fruit product!" No. (Never mind the reading issue -- FLAC, which is what makes this series of decks interesting to me in the first place.)

Thank you Joe.... that's exactly what I intend to do (but with a 120Gb SSD; I have an extra Vertex laying around in an external USB enclosure...) So just to be clear with the music on an SSD, say, "The Wall", if you play that album where you dumped the files it sorts and plays by track number so the songs are in original-album order (without having to create a separate play list PER ALBUM) -- yes? Can the unit handle a NTFS-formatted device (FAT doesn't work for devices beyond ~100GB, and most media devices won't read multiple partitions, so if you have a "large" device you're screwed

Folders in alphabetical order is good (if you can drill into them as you'd expect) -- but how about the song order? There's a comment that prompted this that the unit was reading the ID3 tags and sorting alphabetically on THAT! (right below this message in the list) That will cause every album to play in the wrong order....

If anyone knows, this would be great. 1. Can I plug a large (~100GB) USB-based SSD into one of the USB ports and will it read properly? Presume I have on that disk the following sort of hierarchy of directories and files: Artist / Album / xx - Track Name.ext The actual music files will be either .FLAC or .MP3 extensions. Will these units (1) correctly accept such a device as storage and read it, (2) not take an eternity on each power on to do so (that is, they keep track of the disk ID and don't have to re-index if the same one is still connected) and (3) CORRECTLY SORT THE SO

Wait, what? You may have stopped me from buying something that I would INSTANTLY regret. I have ID3 tags on my MP3 files, but I also have the filenames arranged as "xx - Title" for each song, where "xx" is the track number. If the head unit doesn't correctly sort tracks..... I don't want it for any price, including free.