Limits on USB thumb drive size?
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Limits on USB thumb drive size?
Does the 2011 GT SYNC/NAV system have any limitation on the size of the USB thumb drive that can be used?
I can get the music I want on 32GB with room to spare, or would need to delete some to fit on 16GB...
TIA!
I can get the music I want on 32GB with room to spare, or would need to delete some to fit on 16GB...
TIA!
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Originally Posted by jimmbbo
Does the 2011 GT SYNC/NAV system have any limitation on the size of the USB thumb drive that can be used?
I can get the music I want on 32GB with room to spare, or would need to delete some to fit on 16GB...
TIA!
I can get the music I want on 32GB with room to spare, or would need to delete some to fit on 16GB...
TIA!
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I'm using a 32 GB flash drive, although I probably only have about 19GB worth of music on it. There is a limit on how much data Sync can save in it's voice-recognition system, but it's not based strictly on the number of songs.
Ford hasn't explicitly said this in a single comprehensive article but I've pieced it together from a variety of sources. There are a number of variables that affect how many songs Sync can handle. Sync can handle remembering 15,000 "grammar articles". Each track title, artist name, genre, and album name count as 1. So if you have 12 tracks from an album there would be 12 grammar articles for the 12 track names, 1 for the album title, 1 for the artist (assuming the artist is the same on them all), and 1 for genre (assuming that all tracks on the album are classified in the same genre) for a total of 15 grammar articles. So two different collections of 5000 songs would have a different number of grammar articles. As a ballpark figure, you are probably safe if you have no more than 10,000 tracks.
When you have too many songs, you will lose the ability to call up songs by track titles by voice. You should still be able to play all songs and you could still select by Genre, Album, or Artist, but you wouldn't be able to call it by track name. The display would show the track name, however.
Ford hasn't explicitly said this in a single comprehensive article but I've pieced it together from a variety of sources. There are a number of variables that affect how many songs Sync can handle. Sync can handle remembering 15,000 "grammar articles". Each track title, artist name, genre, and album name count as 1. So if you have 12 tracks from an album there would be 12 grammar articles for the 12 track names, 1 for the album title, 1 for the artist (assuming the artist is the same on them all), and 1 for genre (assuming that all tracks on the album are classified in the same genre) for a total of 15 grammar articles. So two different collections of 5000 songs would have a different number of grammar articles. As a ballpark figure, you are probably safe if you have no more than 10,000 tracks.
When you have too many songs, you will lose the ability to call up songs by track titles by voice. You should still be able to play all songs and you could still select by Genre, Album, or Artist, but you wouldn't be able to call it by track name. The display would show the track name, however.
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I gave up on using a USB drive with mine a long time ago, when I try it, sync just says "cannot play licensed content from this media" or something like that . . . I just put my MP3's on CD's and then there is no such hassle
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mp3's shouldn't be licensed or copy protected.
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I'm using a 32 GB flash drive, although I probably only have about 19GB worth of music on it. There is a limit on how much data Sync can save in it's voice-recognition system, but it's not based strictly on the number of songs.
Ford hasn't explicitly said this in a single comprehensive article but I've pieced it together from a variety of sources. There are a number of variables that affect how many songs Sync can handle. Sync can handle remembering 15,000 "grammar articles". Each track title, artist name, genre, and album name count as 1. So if you have 12 tracks from an album there would be 12 grammar articles for the 12 track names, 1 for the album title, 1 for the artist (assuming the artist is the same on them all), and 1 for genre (assuming that all tracks on the album are classified in the same genre) for a total of 15 grammar articles. So two different collections of 5000 songs would have a different number of grammar articles. As a ballpark figure, you are probably safe if you have no more than 10,000 tracks.
When you have too many songs, you will lose the ability to call up songs by track titles by voice. You should still be able to play all songs and you could still select by Genre, Album, or Artist, but you wouldn't be able to call it by track name. The display would show the track name, however.
Ford hasn't explicitly said this in a single comprehensive article but I've pieced it together from a variety of sources. There are a number of variables that affect how many songs Sync can handle. Sync can handle remembering 15,000 "grammar articles". Each track title, artist name, genre, and album name count as 1. So if you have 12 tracks from an album there would be 12 grammar articles for the 12 track names, 1 for the album title, 1 for the artist (assuming the artist is the same on them all), and 1 for genre (assuming that all tracks on the album are classified in the same genre) for a total of 15 grammar articles. So two different collections of 5000 songs would have a different number of grammar articles. As a ballpark figure, you are probably safe if you have no more than 10,000 tracks.
When you have too many songs, you will lose the ability to call up songs by track titles by voice. You should still be able to play all songs and you could still select by Genre, Album, or Artist, but you wouldn't be able to call it by track name. The display would show the track name, however.
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