Hi Guys,

I recently purchased my 2010 XKR been using CDs I tried loading a Fat32 formatted 32 GB USB Drive with Audio files a mixture and mp3 and ACC files but the drive isn't recognised.

Looking for a USB or even Ipod solution I have an iPod cable with the car but what iPod versions are compatible with a 2010 XKR?

 

The mp3 files will probably play if you burn them onto a CD. You can fit hundreds on one disk. Otherwise, I think a search for Bovee or Invery will provide solutions.

Richard

 

I have a 64GB USB drive with now 16,000 files (songs) on it. It takes awhile, like three minutes, but mine will play. I don't use ACC files on mine though, just .mp3. Maybe the ACCs mess stuff up? Also what Richard said, you can burn .mp3s AS .mp3s to a disk and they play great. I have one disk with over 300 files and it works fine. Multiply that by six disks and you have a bunch of stuff.

 

What file format is your 64GB Hard drive I've only been able to get mine to work with fat32 but you can't go large than 32gb on fat 32

 

Not true. Google ‘FAT32 usb’ and you’ll see.
Here’s a quote from a third party software provider’s page (I won’t link to them, but ‘easy’ to find):
”If the USB flash drive is within 32GB, the native Windows File Explorer and Windows Disk Management are good FAT32 formatter. However, if you want to format 64GB or 128GB USB to FAT32, you can only depend on CMD (Usually diskpart and powershell) and a third-party FAT32 format tool.”

 

Tried that last night and got this error message volume too big for Fat 32, tried again this morning using the command in powershell admin and it works takes ages but it works thanks.

 

Mine IS FAT32. I never had a problem making it.

 

Seem to be an issue with Windows 10 not wanting to format drives above 32GB had to install minitool partition software to format the 128GB drive. Filled the drive with 6GB of music files but the Jag still doesn't recognise it.

 

Is your USB device set up as "Mass Storage Device"? It needs to be per the owners manual

 

Yes mass storage device is on in the preferences on the drive. Is there a folder structure that I should be using for my MP3's? As I'm currently using the iTunes structure

 

Bought the Invery in the end and it works well couldn't get the USB to work unless the mp3 was in the root directory and even that was testing a single mp3 lol

 

I have 1,235 folders and 18,421 files on my drive. It's a real pain to change between folders on the fly though. A very clunky system.

 

I just bought a 2011 XK and finding the USB reliability to be sketchy. Tried 5 different drives from different manufacturers and sizes from 4G up to 128GB loaded with all MP3s. I have just been trying them randomly and occasionally get one to dock and play but unplug it and plug back in, then it doesn't find anything. I have all drives loaded with Artist / album / song.mp3 file structure. I just found one (Patriot brand) that worked as soon as I plugged it in.... shut off car, restarted car and it started immediately playing. Will see tomorrow if it's always going to play. It was a smaller size flash and older usb version... Probably 2.0.

I thought it was bad USB interface on my new (2011) car but after reading this thread, I see many of you are having issues.

I'll update this thread if I find anything new.

 

I'm using 8 GB stick with fat 32 - I don't think I formatted it so it came with fat 32 - it's an older stick probably five to ten years old - no issues with it.

 

Not sure how different 2010 and 2013 entertainment systems are but FWIW..
In my wife's 2013 xkr we run the Jag iPod cable connected to an iPod to Lightning cable and use iPhones. Steering wheel controls, touch screen, etc. all work fine. The car seems to think it's an iPod. Initially we had problems with my wife's phone pausing 5 seconds after pushing "Play" on Spotify, but it turned out she had uninstalled Apple Music which apparently contains some important software bits. Reinstalled and it now works. We've tested with 3 different iPhones which are between 1-4 years old, all work fine.
Regards
Bob

 

My USB issue seems to have gone away or I found the working solution. I put a new 32GB USB3.1 fat32 formatted (default) stick in it and did what I read somewhere, "Create a root folder called Music". Then I put in around ~25GB artists/album/song.mp3 folders under that. To my surprise it loads very fast and reads/plays very well. Not sure exactly what the magic formula was but I have thousands of songs available in the XK,...... So now I'm not tampering with it unless I have to.
Mike

 

Mike, was it the Jag that prompted to "Create a root folder called Music". or was that in your computer. I don't remember the Jag doing anything other than read the music files that were already on the stick. My stick has only the album files (not a root music folder).

 

I have some files on the root and others inside Artist folders. Mine all work.

 

I just read it one of the USB threads on these forums.... I have read all I can find. Maybe it was just magic like I said. The thread didn't say you "had" to do that, I only noted what worked for some people and gave it a try to have much music as simple as possible. I have nothing Apple in my life and don't want to start now.