usb input

so i just installed a kenwood hu in my taco. its got the bells and wistles, aux, usb and handfree phone. i filled up a usb drive with about 1000 songs. i go out to my truck and about the first 250 songs actually play. i can scan through all the artists but i cant click on about 750 of them!? i thought maybe they were different files but i took them all out of my itunes so... wtf? anyone else run into this problem or have any ideas i can try? thanx

 

Purchased songs are in AAC format so you will need to convert to mp3 I would think.

 

x2. I believe iTunes store songs are in mp4 or m4p (dont remember which) and it needs to be converted to mp3 to play.

 

i was thinkin that but how come the first like 250 play? same format....

 

Hmm thats weird, I would suggest just converting them to mp3 on itunes and trying it again.

 

alright i can do that through itunes?

 

Yes, I don't remember how, but I've done it before.

 

ha ok ill check it out, thanx!

 

didnt work. i downloaded a file converter(couldnt figure it out on itunes) and converted numerous songs i know that dont work in the truck to mp3 or aac or mp4 and still the majority of my songs dont play on the deck, i dont get it... any other ideas?

 

Email kenwood support, they've been pretty good about answering my questions in relative short order. I know, according to the local kenwood rep, "fancy" usb drives tend to suck. The cheapest USB drives, with just your files on em and nothing else, tend to work perfectly. Mine doesn't recognize my 16gig sandisk at bootup, I have to pull it out and put it back in. MOST of the time. Sometimes it starts playing right away - go figure.

 

ok... yeah i have a really cheap one... maybe ill try that one... thanx

 

figured it out. the deck only accepts about 3 gigs of music on a usb.... so i lessened the songs down to like 2.9 gigs and it works great, thanx everyone...

 

The more I play with the USB stick option, the more I'm thinking getting an ipod and ipod interface would be a smarter way to go.

 

i found on my kenwood that if i played off a usb, the menus were a lot harder to go through and was slower to load music and surf through than if i used the same usb port and hooked it to my ipod with the correct cables. ipod ran much better on it and there was no limit of music i could have