Hi everyone!

I tried digging around google and through various Mini forums but wasn't able to find much for any other people with this problem. Have any of you run into issues playing music on the standard stereo with a USB flash drive where the music stops randomly for a second or two then starts playing again? It's almost as if there's a notification or a warning that is stopping the music playing (like if you're using navigation and playing music on your cell phone), but nothing is actually going off, as there's no lights or sounds happening when the music stops. This only seems to happen when playing music with the flash drive (I've tried multiple flash drives, same problem), but not with any other mode (radio & CD both work fine.) I haven't been able to find any pattern of when or how it is happening, as sometimes a song will play all the way through without interruption and then the next song gets interrupted 2 or 3 times. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance for the help!!

 

I'm having the exact same issue. The music would cut out for a second, then fade in where it left off. It was happening when I was plugged into the AUX, then I bought a USB flash drive where it still cuts out. I am not up on how things works, but could it be a faulty fuse? Or what could be the issue? If so how can we check? Please help, it makes it hard to rock out and sing along when it keeps cutting out like this...

Thank you for any advise and thoughts!

Owner of a 2011 Clubman.

 

So the only solution I was able to work out was to use an older USB drive. The drive I purchased and that I was having all the trouble with is a Sandisk 64gb USB 2.0 drive that was in exFAT format. My older USB drive, a 32gb Kingston USB 2.0 drive, was in a FAT32 format and works flawlessly in my car, and my 32gb Sandisk USB 2.0 drive works as well. I'm not sure exactly what caused it, but I'm guessing it's the format of the USB drive, as that's really the only difference I could pick out, and unfortunately I wasn't able to format the 64gb to FAT32, as it only had NTFS and exFAT as the available formats.

So I'd suggest trying to get your USB drive formatted to FAT32 if possible, maybe try some other flash drives if you have other ones around to see if you can make those work as well. Just seemed to me like the radio was picky about that one flash drive in my case.

Good luck!

 

I will give that a try and see what happens. Thank you!