MP3 not working out

[Shannon]

I want to play music from my zume. I checked on line and read where I was to get a verbatim 16 mb flash drive along with an adapter... make sure the flash driver was formatted to FAT32. I took the music on my Zume and moved it window media player and then copied to the flash drive. I then took it to my truck, plugged it in and turned on the truck... the truck never recognized the flash drive. So after doing everything I was told to do, and it didn't work, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do now? I appreciate any advice. Thanks

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[soupy1234]

I've only been able to get it to work with 8gb (USB 2.0) or smaller drives with USB A connectors. Not sure if it's the size or the USB level. Here's what I'm using now:

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[Forest Moon]

If you have the 14” screen you have to use the usb port on the right side of the screen. I believe the two under the head unit are power only. I am currently using a 16gb drive and it works fine.

 

[timetoeatpotatoes]

I've got a 512GB type-c in there and it works. I had to specifically format it to fat32, exfat did not work. had to use "Fat32 Format tool". some ancient app since windows wont do regular fat32.

 

[Sagebrush]

I then took it to my truck, plugged it in

Plugged it in where? The phone charging USB-C ports?

 

[bitflogger]

I want to play music from my zume. I checked on line and read where I was to get a verbatim 16 mb flash drive along with an adapter... make sure the flash driver was formatted to FAT32. I took the music on my Zume and moved it window media player and then copied to the flash drive. I then took it to my truck, plugged it in and turned on the truck... the truck never recognized the flash drive. So after doing everything I was told to do, and it didn't work, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do now? I appreciate any advice. Thanks

What others have said is a great place to start but that Zune is near 10 years obsolete and USC-C so mainstream that I suggest budgeting some time and money to make sure your content is going to be usable in the future with a supported platform.

Good luck!

 

[bresna]

If you have the 14” screen you have to use the usb port on the right side of the screen. I believe the two under the head unit are power only. I am currently using a 16gb drive and it works fine.

I have a 32 GB stick plugged in there and it's working fine for me.

I still don't understand why they made those two USB-C ports under the display power only.

 

[timetoeatpotatoes]

to save like 50 cents a unit

 

[UofSC93]

I've got a 512GB type-c in there and it works. I had to specifically format it to fat32, exfat did not work. had to use "Fat32 Format tool". some ancient app since windows wont do regular fat32.

Read the manual that this wouldn't work at such high gig storage. Gonna give it a shot -

 

[timetoeatpotatoes]

If you fill it up 100% full you probably will run into some limitation, but I bet you its a media track count limitation rather than just being not able to read the filesystem.

But you know, they dont even support exfat so maybe there will be a point where it cant read it anymore. I've got about 50 gigs of flac on it so far.

 

[Shannon]

If you have the 14” screen you have to use the usb port on the right side of the screen. I believe the two under the head unit are power only. I am currently using a 16gb drive and it works fine.

I do have the 14 " screen and I have plugged into the usb port on the right side of the screen. And it does not register at all. I am using the 16gb drive with the adapter. It is making me crazy. The dealership went to most of the other tacomas on the lot and it didn't work in any of them.

 

[Shannon]

Plugged it in where? The phone charging USB-C ports?

Into the usb port on the right side of the screen... the other 2 are for charging I believe.

 

[Shannon]

What others have said is a great place to start but that Zune is near 10 years obsolete and USC-C so mainstream that I suggest budgeting some time and money to make sure your content is going to be usable in the future with a supported platform.

Good luck!

I copied all of the music from the zune to windows media player and that does play on my computer... so maybe I am copying it wrong to the flash drive, is that possible.?

 

[Kdbradley85]

Would you be against using an aux cable to play your music? You'd have to use the Zune to control the tracks and whatnot most likely, but you're already using a Zune (no offense!)... maybe that would at least allow you to listen to the music you have on there. I know they make AUX to USB C adapters that are super inexpensive.

 

[maxx075]

Could be an adapter problem (might only be power, instead of data). Could also be a pathing problem. I'm not sure how the Toyota infotainment works with flash drives, but you may have to have the files at the root of the drive (opposed to in a separate folder or similar)

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