Could I be the only one that wants to use subfolders for music on the hard drive? I have tons and tons of music I want with me, and the 28 GB or so available is OK in terms of size. But, I definitely want subfolders since I have so many different artists, albums, etc. I can arrange my files into folders and subfolders on the USB drive, but it doesn't seem to nest folders on the car's hard drive. Is there a setting or a fix for this? Please let me know. Thanks,

 

What kind of USB harddrive are you using. I tried a Western Digital USB drive with no joy. I have a ton of music as well and would like to use the harddrive in the truck but have not been able to get it to work. Appreciate any help you can provide.

 

I think you have to use a small USB flash drive to load because you can only load up so many files at one time, don't ask me why. At least that's what I read, and it works. So, I'm loading 5GB at a time from a USB stick rather than plugging in my 1TB drive -- that seems to work. But, once you get a few GB of music on there, it seems to flatten out the folder hierarchy, which is a real problem when you have several thousand tunes with tons of different artists, etc. The absence of nested subfolders is the real problem I'm having.

 

I think it just only recognizes files on a top level. Period. But once you import them to the internal drive it sorts them by artist, album etc. I get the feeling the product engineers expected the USB drive to be used mainly to transport music to the system, not as an every day playback source.

One of my gripes: I have a whole bunch of CDs titled "Greatest Hits" from many artists. The 430n thinks it is all the same album.

Steve

 

I ran into this too. I have a series of audio books and each book has many CD's and each CD has many chapters. While I could separate the books into top level folders, underneath it jumbled all of the chapters from all of the CD's together and they played out of order. I ended up just using a micro-sized 16GB USB flash drive and leaving it in the USB jack in the center console. From USB it sees the full directory structure and works fine.

One thing I ran into playing from USB is that the player cleverly minimizes the blank space between tracks. With a song you may not notice that it erroneously chops of the last second or so, but this causes lost words of dialog with an audio book. It probably does this playing off the disk too. Hoping they'll fix this in a firmware update.

 

I've never found a clear guide to viewing real memory usage. It's ridiculously difficult to try to figure out what a slabtop or /proc/meminfo means to an entire running system.