Audio always off?

[WelshGasman]

Hi,

Just recently whenever I start my car the audio is always off?

I am sure it was not like that when I bought the car. As a community driver, I do not use my car much, so it sits in the drive for most of the week, if not all of the week.
What could I have done to make it like this, and how do I get it back to being on, like I am sure it used to be.

TIA

[WelshGasman]

Using the car much more now as I have given up the community driving as tired if crawling around at 20mph pretty much everwhere.

Out in the car today and reminded of this issue?

Anyone have any ideas please?

[WelshGasman]

Ok, I have isolated it to just the USB source.
Every other source starts back up when starting the car.

Guess I will just have to live with it.

[Cyker]

Thanks for letting us know what you found

Might be the USB stick - What make and capacity is it? Do you know what format it is (exFAT/FAT32)? Might be worth plugging it into a computer and running a disk check on it in case there is some filesystem corruption.

Have you tried it with a different USB stick?

 

[WelshGasman]

No, not tried with another USB stick.
I have plenty so will look at another.

It is a USB3 stick.
256GB and FAT32

I have around 147GB used space on it.

There is a pause before it appears in the source, when I switch the audio on with the source icon on the bottom left of the display. If I use the On/Volume button it starts at a radio station/source.

CHKDSK reports no problems.

Edited August 14 by WelshGasman
Added CHKDSK result

[Cyker]

Mine just resumes at the last song played but I can't skip or change song for a minute or so while it re-indexes the whole USB stick. Mine's only 32GB though!

If I'm on a different source though it also doesn't let me select the USB stick until it's been indexed.

 

[MikeSh]

1 hour ago, WelshGasman said:

It is a USB3 stick.
256GB and FAT32

A 2017 car will probably have USB standards from 10 years ago. Some devices don't like big and/or newer stuff for some reason, so definitely try a smaller and older stick per Cyker above. 

(Do you really need 150GB of music to hand? I've got about 1,000 tracks on my phone and that's less than 6GB. If it is struggling to index that much then just having a big cull might help.)

[Paul john]

49 minutes ago, MikeSh said:

A 2017 car will probably have USB standards from 10 years ago. Some devices don't like big and/or newer stuff for some reason, so definitely try a smaller and older stick per Cyker above. 

(Do you really need 150GB of music to hand? I've got about 1,000 tracks on my phone and that's less than 6GB. If it is struggling to index that much then just having a big cull might help.)

Usb standards are easy to spot. Its revealed by the colour of the connector (usb-a). Just the speed is rated.

Usb-1 white insert, Usb-2 black insert, Usb-3 Blue insert, Usb-3 with power delivery red insert, Usb-3 with high speed power delivery Orange insert.

a 2017 car will generally have a white insert. 

the recognised size will totally be down to the head unit. So fat-32 formatted…k

[Big_D]

I read an article on the Toyota sight about USB memory stick. They suggest a memory stick of 2.0 USB 2.0, with a maximum size of 32GB formatted to FAT32.

The Toyota media system won't see more that 255 files either

I use a 16GB USB2.0 memory stick with 253 music files and have no issues

[Cyker]

3 hours ago, Paul john said:

Usb standards are easy to spot. Its revealed by the colour of the connector (usb-a). Just the speed is rated.

Usb-1 white insert, Usb-2 black insert, Usb-3 Blue insert, Usb-3 with power delivery red insert, Usb-3 with high speed power delivery Orange insert.

a 2017 car will generally have a white insert. 

the recognised size will totally be down to the head unit. So fat-32 formatted…k

Careful - That might be convention but it's definitely not a universal one - Most of the machines we see, the insert is black in every port and the only way to tell if it's USB 1/2 or 3 or charge or whatever is to look for the tiny embossed symbol!

USB in general is such a poorly thought out standard but alas that's what the industry went with...!

 

[Paul john]

12 minutes ago, Cyker said:

Careful - That might be convention but it's definitely not a universal one - Most of the machines we see, the insert is black in every port and the only way to tell if it's USB 1/2 or 3 or charge or whatever is to look for the tiny embossed symbol!

USB in general is such a poorly thought out standard but alas that's what the industry went with...!

 

Colours generally correct unless you buy Chinese knockoffs

[CPN]

2 hours ago, Paul john said:

Colours generally correct unless you buy Chinese knockoffs

I wouldn't call a Lenovo Laptop a "Chinese knockoff" (yes I know...) and it has 2 SS USB 3.2 type A ports, one of which has PD and both have black inserts... (also there are 2 USB C ports with PD)

[WelshGasman]

11 hours ago, Big_D said:

I read an article on the Toyota sight about USB memory stick. They suggest a memory stick of 2.0 USB 2.0, with a maximum size of 32GB formatted to FAT32.

The Toyota media system won't see more that 255 files either

I use a 16GB USB2.0 memory stick with 253 music files and have no issues

I have way way over 255 files on my stick. 🙂 probably around 25K files.
In fact I just checked and have

1778 albums
31626 files
I can tell you, that it just takes time to find the music, which I expected. 🙂

I have copied all my Various Artist albums to another stick, which is just 128GB.
Just tried that in the car. That indeed does carryon from where it stopped. The benefit I have with the second stick, is that I have an activity indicator on that stick.

I don't know if it needed time to index everything, as the indicator stopped, but I could only get All Artists etc, not A-C, D-F etc.

I will just live with it when I use the USB. I am starting to play more with bluetooth from my phone, as quicker to locate albums. Once one is selected, I tend to play it constantly for a week or so. 🙂

Thanks for all the replies.