Capacity of SD card or USB slots

JAF1 · January 17, 2014

Thinking of dumping my music library on one or the other and didn't see a capacity limitation in the manual. Would it be better to go with a sd card vs. a usb stick? Just thinking the sd card would be cleaner if I'm just just going to leave it in there.

How easy is it to navigate? Touch screen only or can you use the steering wheel controls? Does it read playlist or do you have to go in and out of each folder?

Thanks

GMC-AT · January 17, 2014

SD card seems to be the way.. some have issues with USB. Yes, SD is cleaner as well. It does sort by artist, playlist, etc, etc and shows album art . I use a 8gb SD card.. think some folks use much larger.

seatec · January 17, 2014

I am using a 2 Terrabyte USB 3.0 hard drive for music and movies. works fine.

MIZ14sierra · January 17, 2014

I am using a 2 Terrabyte USB 3.0 hard drive for music and movies. works fine.

what format and resolution are your movie files in?

MIZ14sierra · January 17, 2014

What i have learned from trial and error is that SD cards and USB are fairly useless without playlists on intellilink. I used some freeware (Playlist Creator 3.6.2) downloaded to create playlists from files already on my SD card. I use .pls format, you may be able to use .m3u or .xml too, i'm unsure. I know the one thing i learned is that you have to write the playlists in absolute, not relative format (ie: /Mymusic/mysong.mp3 rather than ...../Mymusic/mysong.mp3) This difference resulted in the playlist showing up rather than not showing up in intellilink.

daddis01 · January 19, 2014

I am using a 2 Terrabyte USB 3.0 hard drive for music and movies. works fine.
what format and resolution are your movie files in?

bump on the format and Res on the movies...what are you playing them on? The infotainment screen?

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seatec · January 21, 2014

what format and resolution are your movie files in?

Format is mp4 and resolution varies. most are 720 but some are higher.

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/155972-i-enjoy-the-hell-out-of-my-2014-truck/?p=1385280

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/155972-i-enjoy-the-hell-out-of-my-2014-truck/?p=1384556

hicountry · January 23, 2014

What i have learned from trial and error is that SD cards and USB are fairly useless without playlists on intellilink. I used some freeware (Playlist Creator 3.6.2) downloaded to create playlists from files already on my SD card. I use .pls format, you may be able to use .m3u or .xml too, i'm unsure. I know the one thing i learned is that you have to write the playlists in absolute, not relative format (ie: /Mymusic/mysong.mp3 rather than ...../Mymusic/mysong.mp3) This difference resulted in the playlist showing up rather than not showing up in intellilink.

I found this forum while searching for some info about using SD cards in my new High Country Silverado and your comments are the first I've seen with any real info. I thought this would be the ideal music storage, but as you said it's fairly useless without playlists. But mine won't see playlists unless I just dump them and all songs into the root folder. If I use folders to hold separate albums it will see the folders but not a playlist.

I've used the same freeware you mentioned and tried both .pls and .m3u formats, either will work in the case of everything in the root folder, but not with albums in folders. I have really been frustrated by this as it should be so simple, but there is absolutely nothing in my owners manual about this or anywhere online that I have been able to find. Do you get the playlists to work straight from the Playlist Creator or do you further edit them with a text editor? Any other ideas to try? Thanks.

euromade · February 4, 2014

I used an USB stick in my wife's FORD Edge formatted like an iPod. There are some free utilities you can use to create a fake iPod/itunes playlist. Have not tried in my Chevy, but I'm sure it would work as it supports iPod/Iphone playlists...

As far as the capacity goes, I'm not sure if there is a limit as my iPhone is a 64GB version and it works fine with over 5000 songs on it.

JAF1 · February 4, 2014

Just as an update. I ended up getting a 64gb sd card this weekend. Formated it to NTFS and dumped 50gb worth of music on it. Just did a copy/paste from my Windows music directory. Took a few minutes to load up at first but everything plays fine. Even the playlists.

skunkstripe · February 4, 2014

This is the SD card that I use. Have 800 songs along with 5 full movies. Movies are in mp4. Songs are all in one folder. Just drag and drop. make a file on your pc put your music in it. Make another file put your movies or video's in it. Then open your SD card with your computer And just drag and drop. Easy as that. Hope this helps. Oh my music is in wav format. And the faster the SD card the smoother it plays.

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skunkstripe · February 4, 2014

Still have room left after all that I put on it

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scphilli · March 17, 2014

What i have learned from trial and error is that SD cards and USB are fairly useless without playlists on intellilink. I used some freeware (Playlist Creator 3.6.2) downloaded to create playlists from files already on my SD card. I use .pls format, you may be able to use .m3u or .xml too, i'm unsure. I know the one thing i learned is that you have to write the playlists in absolute, not relative format (ie: /Mymusic/mysong.mp3 rather than ...../Mymusic/mysong.mp3) This difference resulted in the playlist showing up rather than not showing up in intellilink.

What is the difference? Looks like you typed the same thing twice

robskinner1972 · March 18, 2014

What i have learned from trial and error is that SD cards and USB are fairly useless without playlists on intellilink. I used some freeware (Playlist Creator 3.6.2) downloaded to create playlists from files already on my SD card. I use .pls format, you may be able to use .m3u or .xml too, i'm unsure. I know the one thing i learned is that you have to write the playlists in absolute, not relative format (ie: /Mymusic/mysong.mp3 rather than ...../Mymusic/mysong.mp3) This difference resulted in the playlist showing up rather than not showing up in intellilink.

I formatted a 2GB SD card with FAT and used Playlist creator to create m3u playlist files from the files that were on the SD card. My 2014 GMC Sierra read them perfectly and displayed the playlists fine. I then tried a 4GB card but cannot get it to work. It reads the files but not the playlist files. I then read your post and created pls files using absolute format but still no luck. I am now attempting to do the same but formatting it using NTFS. I will create the files as pls to see if that works. Any suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong. At this point I am only able to use the original 2GB and have it work with the playlists. Thanks. Rob

Ishwash · July 9, 2015

Hmmm...

Using a USB thumb drive, 2500 songs appears to be the limit on my 2014 Sonic My Link Intellilink system.

On my 2014 GMC Intellilink about 3500 songs appears to be the limit.

I noticed all songs were not being read by the Intellilink system when I tried a 500 GB Passport hard drive with 60,000 songs on it.

You guys wanting Playlists to work: Use your Genre label and the free MP3 Tag Editor. You can change the Genre Tag in a batch operation for your songs you want on a song list to whatever name you wish to call it and Intellilink will group them all together under the heading "Genre"; it's as easy as pie. You can use the same procedure for a large number of playlists,

Revision: 2014 GMC Intellilink quit showing more songs at just over 3500 titles using USB thumb drive, and as I said above Sonic quit at 2500 songs, so something maxed out during the process of my adding songs to the thumb drive. Can't read even close to number of songs I desire to be accessible while I am driving down the road.

Procedure: I was writing the songs into the thumb drive one level deep; in other words, all songs were being written in without folders to the thumb drive. I started with 2000 songs on the drive and added 500 songs at each addition and I checked each vehicle after adding each batch of 500 new songs. The Thumb Drive and the Passport mentioned above were formatted in Fat32, and all songs were either MP3 or WMA.