Help with USB music Jaguar XF 2017

[mightychipster]

Please help, I'm pulling (if I had any) hair out!

I cannot get my music usb to be recognised/played via source.

I've played around with various settings including tagging, naming conventions, root, folders, bit rates etc but no joy.

I'm using a 64Gb usb flash drive.

Any pointer on what I need to do would be appreciated.

Thanks

MC

[bunchofkeys]

Make sure the USB stick is FAT32 formatted and not exFAT, which usb sticks tend to be.

[mightychipster]

bunchofkeys said:

Make sure the USB stick is FAT32 formatted and not exFAT, which usb sticks tend to be.

Thanks bunchofkeys, you're a legend! I downloaded some software and converted USB to FAT32 and the car now recognises the flash drive.

Quick question - can I simply now copy over onto the USB drive all my music folders so that I have root, music folder, mp3 files? Or do I have to stick all the mp3 files directly onto the root?

Thanks

MC

[bunchofkeys]

You're welcome. And you should be able to use folder now.

[GeniusOfLove]

mightychipster said:

Thanks bunchofkeys, you're a legend! I downloaded some software and converted USB to FAT32 and the car now recognises the flash drive.

Quick question - can I simply now copy over onto the USB drive all my music folders so that I have root, music folder, mp3 files? Or do I have to stick all the mp3 files directly onto the root?

Thanks

MC

It uses folders and you can navigate through them. Subfolders too, I have a 32GB stick of music sorted into folders by Artist them Albums.

You can also get a 30 pin iPod interface to bluetooth adapter for these cars, which is dead handy.

[Vsix and Vtec]

GeniusOfLove said:

It uses folders and you can navigate through them. Subfolders too, I have a 32GB stick of music sorted into folders by Artist them Albums.

You can also get a 30 pin iPod interface to bluetooth adapter for these cars, which is dead handy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RMHVJ6P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is the thing I used in my XK. I don't have the Audio jack, so can't use the bluetooth audio streaming stick I had from my previous car.

It's not cheap, but it works flawlessly.