tickerguy

Yeah, it comes up pretty fast on the 4000 -- long before the unit has booted. Then it glitches and reappears once the boot has completed. Maybe 1-2 seconds from power-on?

Yep. I have one for my 4000 and it works fine.

It can definitely be changed IF YOU KNOW THE CURRENT password. If you don't, of course....

Sort your USB stick's directory in track order and play in file mode.

Planned obsolescence is the way of the world these days. I've caught various manufacturers doing specifically crappy things in this regard such as soldering in CMOS batteries onto a PCB in such a way that you can't get them out for replacement without risking destroying the PCB -- even with a proper SMT hot-air rework station (the high thermal mass of the battery makes this an extremely tricky operation.) Then there are all the newer cellphones with non field-replaceable PRIMARY batteries -- a lithium cell that has a known cycle life of approximately 500, which pretty-much guarantees that in

Bits are bits if you're feeding the head unit a bitstream. A lossless bitstream that the head unit supports (e.g. FLAC) is even better. Whether that bitstream comes off a SD card or something on the USB connector does not matter so long as the data comes off at the rate required to feed the DAC in the head unit. If you're feeding it analog (via the phone's DAC) then you're at the phone DAC's mercy plus the front-end noise in the head unit. While the latter shouldn't be material the DAC quality is often questionable at best, and what's worse is that you're probably feeding the head unit

Other than the SD cards that require exFAT (which the NEX units cannot read).....

I have no problem with the SSD in FILE mode, but I organized the directories in a logical way, and sorted them on the disk (which requires using a FAT format instead of NTFS.) Works fine. Pioneer still ought to pull the head out of their backside, considering that the base Android OS under this thing has a sort routine in it, and even if it didn't writing a quicksort (or hell, even a bubble sort!) is one of those "first semester" programming problems.

Pioneer has a terminal case of stupids across the board in this regard. In "tag" mode it will not sort on track number PERIOD, which is idiotic if you drill to the album level. You're not looking for an individual song, you're looking for an ALBUM. To ignore the context is dumb. What's dumber is that when in FILE mode it won't sort directories, so if you organize your disk as "Artist->Album->Songs" (which is logical) it will happily present both the Artist and Album lists without sorting them, but it does sort the "Song" (terminal) level of the structure, and as such will honor

Pj, 120gb and I've had it for several years -- it's an older drive, but has reasonably-recent firmware on it. Were I buying one now I'd pick any of the decent consumer SSDs in a size appropriate to your needs. Note that there remains a directory sorting issue (specifically, these head units do not sort directories on external storage, which is terminally stupid -- but it is what it is) so formatting it as NTFS is problematic; you can "sort" a FAT directory device using various third party tools, but NOT an NTFS one.

I am running an older OCZ Vertex II and it works fine. Any of the consumer models should be fine; you do NOT want an "enterprise" model as those tend to have materially higher power consumption and may require external power instead of being able to take it directly from the USB port, and that will lead to instability. There's also no reason to pay the (much) higher price the enterprise models come with; as the drive is not being written to power loss protection (which is the big difference with enterprise SSDs, along with more spare sectors) isn't worth anything in this application.

Update to 1.08. 1.06 will EVENTUALLY do so if you drive long enough, but it requires HOURS (literally) of drive-time with a large volume before it finishes whatever crap it is doing in the background, and until then it will NOT resume.

Yep -- the NEX units will not look in the folder for artwork files (which is stupid and wasteful); to display the artwork must be in EACH music file individually as a tag. Yes, this means if you have 20 songs in an album you must consume 20x the album art in disk space, but since music is rather large compared against these art files it's not as bad as it initially sounds.

These head units do not like album art that is over 600px in either dimension -- mine never did, even with original factory firmware.

No problems here.