USB drive and playlist creation

I wanted to share my experience with a 64GB thumb drive and building playlists. It's a fairly straight forward, but feel free to ask any questions.

First, while I like that the SD card takes up basically zero space, it is limited to 32GB. However, thumb drives tend to be bulky, especially with larger sizes. I found this 64GB drive from Patriot: http://patriotmemory.com/product/det...d=1491&type=23 http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GN9C62M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01? ie=UTF8&psc=1

It hides easily behind the screen and is barely noticeable. Also comes formatted as FAT32 and allows the full ~60GB to be accessible out of the box. Creating Playlists

For building playlists, I have been using the freeware Windows program foobar2000. It can be found at http://www.foobar2000.org/.

The program has a pretty straight forward interface, but also has a lot of flexibility if you want to convert audio from one format, adjusting audio gain or fixing tags. First, insert the SD card or USB drive into your PC and open the drive to view the current files. Copy any additional music over to the removable media.

To create a new playlist, click File -> New Playlist: Using the designated SD Card or USB drive, left click and drag the files to the new playlist. On you have added all the songs you want in the playlist, left click on the playlist tab, select Rename playlist and give it a name that you would recognize. Once that is complete, left click on the playlist tab again and select Save all playlists... You will be prompted to select the playlist format froma drop down list. Select M3U and click OK

Navigate to the top folder on your SD card or USB drive and click Select Folder This will create a separate file on the root of the SD card or USB drive for each playlist. From there, insert the media into the car like normal. It may take a few minutes to index the contents of the card, but once complete, the newly created playlists will show.