maysys

I've decided to go the Ipod route too. Frustrating, seeing as how the F has all this other connectivity. But I'll find another use for the 32g card.

Have you had any problems getting your F to read your collection of music off the card? If not, how do you have it laid out. And what is your total file/folder count? And how did you format it?

Well, like I said, it's not a problem with the card at this point. The card works fine in several different computers. Maybe there are just too many songs or directories on the card. It's very annoying, in any case. I spent a lot of time putting this together for my wife on this roadtrip and now she is hours down the road away from me and it doesn't work. I'll have her put it back in her laptop and I'll remotely look at the card tonight when she stops.

Ok it was working fine last night. When we fired it up this morning, it did it again. All the directories had only the first song showing up in them. If you pull the SD card and put it back in the computer all the directories are fine. Anyone have any similiar experience? I'm out of ideas.

No, my card is a sandisk from CDW. If it were a fake I wouldn't have been able to copy 30g to it in the first place. I really think it was too many folders in the root dir. It's working fine now.

I think I may have tracked it down: I had over 450 folders in the root directory. I made Alphabetical Folders like so: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRSTU VWXYZ And put the Artist folders in the respective folders. Actually solves the problem of scrolling through the whole list each time. And the entire contents of each folder seem to show up now.

Update: I couldn't get 4kb alloc units to work with the full format either. 8kb works. Recopying the music back over now, we will see what happens.

Honestly, my best luck with gps signal has been on the front dash dead center up against the window glass. Your mileage may vary. But that's where mine sits. Glass is a lot more radio transparent than metal.

Oh, and I've updated to the 2.007 firmware already.

I've got a refurbed F90bt that I bought a few weeks ago on ebay. Installed it in my wife's car last week, bought a 32g SDcard after I figured out that the usb connector seems mainly useless (64g usb stick won't work, usb hard drives don't work well due to power, etc) I've got a 30 gig music collection on the card, off the bat it seemed to work but I did some reorganizing on the card today and when I put it back in I noticed that most of the directories only listed the first song in each directory. I don't have any files in the root. Its organized by \Artistname\Albumname\Song.Mp3