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Originally Posted by GeriFix
I have an 8 gig Transcend JetFlash drive that works flawlessly. The main issue in choosing a flash drive (unless you use an extension cable) are it's physical dimensions .... if it has a body longer than 5cm it will probably prevent the armrest from closing properly (see pic).
The manual says that tracks with a bitrate greater than 256 may not play. I have used Windows Media Player to rip CDs to .wma format (bitrate 192) and they sound perfect (at about 90MB per CD that will give about 100hours per 8 gig drive .... should see you well past the engine run-in period).
iDrive reads the flash drive like a PC and displays the same directory structure you created when copying files to the drive. It displays folder names and file names (sans extension). It doesn't display the id3 tag data and I like this, as my iPod is a dog's breakfast thanks to all the sloppy id3 data on stuff that I have downloaded. Create a neat directory structure with your PC and it will be neat and simple to navigate with iDrive.
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Great post Gerifix. My only anticipated problem is that you mentioned that the flash drive doesn't play 320kbps files, which is the main file I download. Is this a limitation of just that flash drive or every flash drive on the market?