Hi All-

What type of usb sticks will work in those 2 ports? One in glove box and one down by emergency brake.

Thanks a ton!

 

I would like to play music from them.

 

Oops

 

Put your MP3s on a USB thumb drive and plug it in by the shift - the list of available music will come up in the USB entry on the menu - play away!

 

And the one in the box is only for software updates. Last I checked, it won't do anything else - no charging from it, either.

 

I only see one usb slot on the rail and not one in the glove box.

 

MINI Connect & Nav?

 

No Connect nor Nav...I do wish for the Connect now .

 

I think I read somewhere the max storage capacity supported is 32GB.

 

Yes, i have Mini connect n Nav.

Bummer about the glove box, its much easier to access. I must have a bad usb stick. Its sandisk 8 gb, with mp3s on it. When plugged into slot by brake, the songs do not play anymore. It went dead and its brand new.

 

[Correction]
Mine seems to NOT read my 64GB just fine...going smaller

 

Well that's good to hear. I think I read it in the R56 forum, so maybe the older cars didn't support above 32GB.

 

I recently got a SanDisk Cruzer 32GB USB drive. Easy access to all my music, and I don't have the MINIconnected UI. The Cruzer is super small, it's barely noticeable when plugged in

 

The stick has to be formated to FAT32. I use a 64 GB and it works fine. But I had to reformat it to FAT32 before I could use it.

 

Hmmmm, what program do you use to reformat?

 

I used this tool.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk...-10974082.html

 

Thank you

 

All I get on my 64GB is part of the first track then it goes quiet and intermittently plays a piece of the song , crap drive? my 8GB worked fine

 

Mine does that while it loads any new songs I've added. I usually switch to the radio or CD for a few minutes until it sorts things out. One time it wouldn't fully load for a couple days, but pulling it and plugging it back in fixed it.

The larger drives do take longer to index.

 

Ok , because the flash drive works fine on my laptop, I'll try being a bit more patient and see where it leads
Thanks

 

I just want to dispel the information that the port in the glove box is only for software upgrades. It also works as a charging port. I use it to charge my phone all the time. I usually run the cable out the side of the glove box and down into that little net in the passenger foot well. When the phone is charging using the rail USB it disables the bluetooth audio, which I use from time to time.

I also seem to remember that people have hooked up TB hard drives to the rail USB. I think as long as the format is correct you can go huge with the drive. It does have a limit, something like 40,000 songs, that in can index and it would take a while the first time. There was information on the limits in the manual but I don't have it with me.

 

The size limitations may be coming from the recommended FAT32 file system. Windows by default has a limit of 32GB volumes for a FAT32 format. However you can get around that using the right commands, see this article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-...ive-fat-fat32/. I would say you can probably just use whatever you have in terms of USB drives, and if you have trouble you might try re-formatting as FAT32.

The manual I have just says you can use most MP3 players, iPods, USB flash drives and most phones that have a USB interface. It says FAT32 format is recommended and you can use about any audio format including MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and M4A.

 

My drives are all formatted FAT32 and they simply don't work , the only one that functions at all is a 1GB FAT16 , not what I was expecting , particularly if some are using TB drives with no trouble.We'll see what the MINI service dept can tell me.

 

Update: My 64GB started working after days of me getting frustrated and taking it out and using something else the day before I was to go to the dealer for some service and to check it out it starts working, so I loaded it up and we're back to square one LED blinking like it's doing something but music is unplayable , I understand it takes longer tyo index a larger drive but we're talking days at this point

 

My 32 GB microSD card works fine (in a USB adapter). I formatted it in my smartphone, but I don't know if that's FAT16 or 32.