Rich Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 The MX5 has an Alpine bluetooth/USB headunit, no CD player. I have an 8GB Sandisk USB thumb drive that I've been putting MP3s on, which works fine. I bought an album on Amazon the other day, which plays fine on the computer but on the headunit it says every other track is unsupported and skips it! I have reformatted the drive (FAT32) and copied the album back over but it's still doing it. I'm going to try a different USB stick and also put them on my phone to try via bluetooth but has anyone had this before? I bought the missus an album for Xmas on Amazon, which came with an MP3 version so I will see if it's doing it with that as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 I would love to help if only i understood the question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parthiban Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 That's a really odd problem, as far as I know Amazon isn't but does it possibly have some kind of DRM protection on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickT Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 What do you mean by you've bought an album? Is this a downloaded set of files in a folder? Are the files in a format that is compatible with the player? Some players only play .mp3 file format where the downloaded files might be in .mp4 etc You can get free file format converters to convert your newer file format to .mp3 Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 That's a really odd problem, as far as I know Amazon isn't but does it possibly have some kind of DRM protection on it? I'm not sure I will have to check the files but it seems pointless applying it to every other track? What do you mean by you've bought an album? Is this a downloaded set of files in a folder? Are the files in a format that is compatible with the player? Some players only play .mp3 file format where the downloaded files might be in .mp4 etc You can get free file format converters to convert your newer file format to .mp3 Good luck Yes an MP3 download so in .mp3 format and every other song plays, the others say unsupported. I've not had time to try another USB stick or my phone yet but the one I have them on plays fine if I plug it into the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 I finally found out the problem. I took another pen drive to work and formatted it on Windows 7, downloaded the albums and all the tracks worked. So formatted the thumb drive using Windows 7 and copied the files over on my Macbook, same problem again with both albums. It looks like downloading them on OSX had done something to the files, I even downloaded it twice to check it wasn't corrupt the first time. Download the files on a Windows machine and all the tracks play from the USB drive. Strange! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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