Capacity of SD card or USB slots

[Old Goat 45]

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.

I have an SD card with about 3000 songs in folders by album. The info on the card says it is high temperature rated, and while slow in stating, it works well.

 

You said it shows album art, mine doesn't. Do you add the album art in jpeg to each album folder or something else.

 

Thanks for your help. This forum is terrific. I have learned a lot, and the photos of the trucks is awesome.

[Ishwash]

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.

Came back to this because it's wrong. Is capable of handling many more songs than I indicated. is doing 7300 and I am sure it will read more than that and it handles folder depth of two or three just fine. One other thing: It likes your initial song, album, genre, etc, listing on the thumb drive or SD card and will continue to show it even after you have changed it. To have it dump its library, after you have revised it, you must remove one of the leads to your battery, do that and your old lists will be gone, then after it has reread the stick or the SD card, it will be correct. Caution though: you will lose other settings on your radio as well when the battery terminal is disconnected, nothing that can't be put back in though.