SD Card

[Slaughterj]

I bought a brand new Sony SD card, loaded it with music, and put it in, but the car says "No SD card". Anyone else have such a problem?

[Schen]

One of three things I can think of.

The card needs to be formatted in the computer first. (In other words, put the card back in the reader, right click on the icon and see if you can format it. Reinstall all the music on the card.)

Or...

The selected songs have that embedded code most downloaded store songs have today.

OR!

The class of the card may have something to do with it. It's a possibility but not likely. Camera's are finicky with SD cards and classes.

--RS

[Bitten]

Where is the music from? I tunes? I know I tunes can't be played in my Jeep. I use Amazon.

[Slaughterj]

My songs largely are mp3s ripped by me from my CDs. I'll check the formatting, but I would figure if it worked to put the music on, that the card was working. The card is 64GB though, maybe too big to be recognized?

[Slaughterj]

See some discussion elsewhere about fat32 formatting and not working with SDXC cards versus SDHC (not sure what mine is, have to look).

Interesting list of allegedly compatible cards from a couple of years ago (http://www.chargerforumz.com/showthread.php?t=131041):

SD SanDisk SDSDB-512-A11 512MB
SD Panasonic RP-SDR01GU1A 1GB
SD Kingston SD/2GBET 2GB
mini SD SanDisk miniSD 512MB
mini SD Kingston miniSD SDM 1GM
Micro SD SanDisk TransFlash 512MB
Micro SD SanDisk SDSDQ-1024-A11M 1GB
SDHC Kingston 4gb SD2 4GB
mini SDHC Patriot PSF8GMSD-PC 8GB
micro SDHC Kingston SDC2/16GB-2ADP 16GB
SD Kingston SD 2GB
SDHC Kingston SD4 4GB(Class 4)
SDHC Kingston SD4 8GB(Class 4)
SDHC Kingston SD4 16GB
SDHC ScanDisc SDHC 16GB(CLASS2)
SD PNY SD4 2GB(Class 4)
SDHC PNY SDHC 8GB
SDHC PNY SDHC 16GB
SDHC dick smith DSE SDHC 4GB(Class 6)
SDHC Transcend TS8GSDHC2 8GB(Class 2)
mini SD Transcend TS2GSDM80 8GB(Class 2)
micro SD Kingston SDC/2GB 2GB(Class 2)
SD Panasonic RP-SDP02GJ1L 2GB
SDHC Panasonic RP-SDW04GJ1K 4GB(Class 10)
SDHC Panasonic RP-SDP08GJ1K 8GB(Class 10)
SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM16GJ1K 16GB(Class 10)
SDHC Panasonic RP-SDW32GJ1K 32GB
SDHC TOSHIBA SD-K04GR5W4 4GB(Class4 )
SDHC TOSHIBA SD-E016G4 16GB(Class4 )
SDHC PQ1 Japan BMRSD-2G 32GB
SDHC CFD CSDC-8GC6 8GB(Class6)
SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM04G 4GB(Class4)
SD HAGIWARA HPC-SD 512MB
SD TOSHIBA SD-M128 128MB
SD Panasonic PR-SDK01G 16MB
SD Panasonic PR-SDK01G 1GB

[Schen]

Just out of curiosity but does the car come with a factory one or no?

--RS

[ViperGTS]

fat32...i guess.

fat32 is limited to ...32gb...but there is tools for going 64gb/re-formatting etc.

If you format NTFS...afterwards:
convert <drive:> /fs:fat32

[cashcorn]

I though you could also use a flash drive??

[Slaughterj]

Just out of curiosity but does the car come with a factory one or no?

--RS

No.

[Slaughterj]

Fortunately I have a 32GB SDHC Transcend SD card in my digital camera, just copied all the pics from the 32 to the 64, which is working in my camera and gave me a lot more future photo space, and I expect the 32 will work in the car, given the info I have researched above.

[Bruce]

You guys have that many songs??? I used an old 8G SD card w/o any issue and between the radio, xm, and the SD card, I don't think I'll run out of songs to listen to for a LONG time.

[Slaughterj]

I have a large amount of foreign language podcasts in addition to music, it adds up!