External Hard Drive MP3s

You two Goofer Balls ever here of the song by Red Hot Chili Peppers ?

Give it away give it away give it away Now ...

Looks like i'm gonna give it away give it away now. Since no one has found a solution/ has had this problem

It's probably because you have way too much music for the the system to scan successfully. Try a smaller quantities in a flash drive instead of a hard drive (didn't catch what you were using). I prefer quality over quantity.

I guess i will remove them all and reload artist a- q. Before it was about to read all 7000+ songs

NickD said:

Ha, would if you tried to hook in an Android phone into a Iphone docking station. Only problem we had with iphones was paying Apple 90 some cents to license a track, when we had tons of CD's around here we could convert from for free. Did Apple change this since about five years ago?

Can you select your songs from your radio? US Cellular, the company we are stuck with as the only one that lets our cell phones work in our home is finally selling iphones. Maybe we should look into them.

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I've had all my CDs ripped to iTunes for years, and yes, I can select music and control iPod functions from my radio. Works great.


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Nophix said:

I've had all my CDs ripped to iTunes for years, and yes, I can select music and control iPod functions from my radio. Works great.


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Kind of verifies, the designers of the Cruze radio also had iphones. Too bad they didn't put this in the owners manual, just says, MAY not work with all phones.

When RCA came out with that large hole 45 rpm record, had standards back them, took them over 17 years for the record industry to accept it. So much for standards today, everybody is different.

It may be a hard drive problem. My ipod can load, but sometimes gives me an error saying data not supported or it disconnects. But anyways when i connect my hard drive to someone elses car, it only loads artists r-z. ...LAME! It there a way to reprogram an external harddrive to default setting? If so, how?

ekudu001 said:

It may be a hard drive problem. My ipod can load, but sometimes gives me an error saying data not supported or it disconnects. But anyways when i connect my hard drive to someone elses car, it only loads artists r-z. ...LAME! It there a way to reprogram an external harddrive to default setting? If so, how?

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If this were mine, I'd plug the hard drive into a PC and do a hard format (not the quick one) on it. This will let a real operating system try write over the entire surface and it will over write the FAT table too, which could be the problem with yours. Actually, I'd let CCleaner do a drive wipe on it, as that program can do multiple over writes to make sure every sector is good. This will take a while, depending on the size of the drive, but it will ensure you that the drive is viable.

ekudu001 said:

It may be a hard drive problem. My ipod can load, but sometimes gives me an error saying data not supported or it disconnects. But anyways when i connect my hard drive to someone elses car, it only loads artists r-z. ...LAME! It there a way to reprogram an external harddrive to default setting? If so, how?

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You mean like reformatting an HD, sure, most any computer can do this. Older versions of BIOS, could even to a low level format. Programs like System Mechanics Pro have a HD scrubber program so not even the CIA can read it.

Thinking back with kids downloading MP3's off the internet, many of these were loaded with a virus. A virus is essentially a DOS command, the can really do nasty things to an HD, like wipe out the master boot record, or screw up the FAT, file location table. These are programs that keep track of what you have on your drive, where the stuff is stored, which sectors bits are in, and the sequence of these sectors.

Anther means of getting a virus is in a *.jpg file, these guys that do stuff like this are nasty. To make matters worse, switched from PROM to flash ram. PROM drives could be reformatted because this firmware was fixed, a virus that changes this firmware, the controlling program for the heads and drive motor can literally physically destroy a drive, these drives are history.

Just saying, depending on your source of MP3's, this could well be the problem with your drive. Only takes one MP3 to mess up everything.

Problem solved. Had to reformat my hard drive. It was fat32 already but i had to use a program to reformat it. Now all artist show. Whomp whomp

Nice to know that USB port has enough power to fire a hard drive. Could toss in a USB cable to charge a phone if need be.

One thing I couldn't help but notice with an OE radio system, don't provide any specifications, whatsoever. Must be some highly classified material.

NickD said:

One thing I couldn't help but notice with an OE radio system, don't provide any specifications, whatsoever. Must be some highly classified material.

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I ran into the same issue with the Nav. unit in my car. It's made by Mitsubishi and used in Porsche, Honda, and Mitsus. Not a thing on line anywhere on the internals. Intellectual Property, I guess.

ekudu001 said:

Problem solved. Had to reformat my hard drive. It was fat32 already but i had to use a program to reformat it. Now all artist show. Whomp whomp

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Good you fixed it. Still betting the FAT got corrupted and caused the problem.

"My Space" was really a major problem with the FAT, kids couldn't stay away from that virus site. More complications, when you buy a new computer, can't even provide the OS on CD's anymore, and if the kids don't back that up, screwed. Ha, even my older kids.

Then Windows insisting on putting all your data on Drive C, just asking for problems, first drive to crash and even destroy the HD, another new problem. Can't tell my kids nor my wife to make backups, gave up. One son finally listened after he lost everything, but at least I had plenty of backup for a bunch of video's and his wedding photos of my granddaughter growing up for the last four years. Other son lost 500 GB of ACad drawings, still have that drive on my desk, best price I could find so far is 3,000 bucks for a non-guaranteed recovery. I am not paying this.

$80 for a 1TB external hard drive from SAMS or Costco is cheap back up. Software backs up the system automatically whenever you set it to do it. I put a second drive in the PC from a previous PC and use it to back up the OS whenever there are updates to the OS. Recovery becomes fairly easy.