FLAC Files via USB-A thumb drive?

[derek_zoolander]

Hello all! First post! USA here and have owned my Scottish white trialmaster for about a month now. I seem to remember the manual specifying that the head unit supported FLAC for the USB audio device, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the music to show up or be playable.

Is there a specific folder structure that is required for the music to be recognized?

 

[Rok_Dr]

In my testing the other year .flac format files were playable and artwork recognised. Thumb drives need to be formatted as either fat32 or ntfs. Size should be <32gb.

It will be slow to load if there are a lot of files as well.

 

[derek_zoolander]

I have almost 10k songs but have had it plugged in for multiple 2-3 hours drives. I'll check the formatting next, as I doubt it's ntfs as I have a Mac. Most likely exfat.

There's also some scattered mp3s there that aren't showing as well, so odds are being the formatting now that you mention.

May also just drop 1-2 songs on there first to test before wasting time transferring 10k.

Thanks rok_dr, away from the car for now but will report back when I can test with the results