I have a 2012 GC Crew w/ Media Center 430. I'm trying to load music files in from a SanDisk Ultra USB drive. I have some 6000 songs at about 19GB total, but it always says it is completed at 2048 files at about 8 GB. The first time I tried, they were all in one file on the USB drive. I thought maybe 2048 was some sort of binary limit for a folder, so I divied it up into six folders of about 3 GB apiece. Same thing, it loaded 2048 files and said it was complete. Also, it loads extremely slow...2048 files took from Lake Tahoe to Kettleman City (~6 hrs). I've looked for answers in the manual and the CD, but the CD has been spinning in my laptop's drive for close to 40 minutes and still hasn't loaded.
Any ideas? I'm worried this Media Center is too smart for me.

 

well... The these radio are quite out dated technology, so you might just have to bare with it. Like you said, 2048 might be the maximum file it takes.

If you take a Radio apart, you would find a IDE pATA 30 gb Laptop Hard drive in it, something that the computer world phased out around 2005.

You'll be better off just reading it directly off the USB drive.

 

You are using far too big files for hte file system to handle. Don't put the music in files, just put it all on the thumb drive. You could put each album, in one small file, but don't use any files over 512mb.

This is a file system problem, has nothing to do with the HD.

Steak, IDE is not phased out yet, you can still get current motherboards with IDE ports. SATA is not proving to be that much better, just smaller cabling.