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Tunes on a flash drive

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by corky569, Mar 26, 2016.

  1. Mar 26, 2016 at 4:34 PM
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    corky569

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    Hi all,
    I just purchased a '16 double cab trd off road last week, it's supposed to be here by the 4th. I'm just curious if anyone has their music on a flash drive. Does it play, how does it work, is it easy to scroll to find tracks? Anyone have pics of the screen with it playing. Thanks in advance.
     
  2. Mar 26, 2016 at 5:23 PM
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    get itunes and transfer your entire library to a flash drive, plug in and bingo
     
  3. Mar 26, 2016 at 5:24 PM
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    My library is on iTunes on my laptop, but I use yhe original files from windows on my flash drives. How can I make an iTunes library on the flash drive?
     
  4. Mar 26, 2016 at 5:28 PM
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    I don't have iTunes, I copied all my music from Windows Media player to a USB drive, works great. If the screen is set to audio it shows the artist album cover on part of the screen and song information on the other. You can use the steering wheel audio controls to skip ahead or back.
     
  6. Mar 26, 2016 at 6:38 PM
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    I'll have to try it, I'm still waiting on the truck.
     
  7. Mar 26, 2016 at 6:46 PM
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    How do you transfer the mp3 files to the HD?
     
  8. Mar 26, 2016 at 6:51 PM
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    You don't, you need to leave the USB stick plugged in, the HU reads off of it.
     
  9. Mar 26, 2016 at 6:52 PM
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    Thanks. For some reason I thought you could upload an mp3 library to the head unit.
     
  10. Mar 26, 2016 at 7:22 PM
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    I wish
     

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