travis9935 Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Can you plug in a 500 gb portable Hard drive with music on it into the USB port? Or is that to large? Never tried it but if it works I will buy one. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1276 Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 My 250G work. Not sure for 500G. Take note that it only accepts audio file. As far as i found out in mine! jkeaton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpitre Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 What format does the Hard Drive need to be (NTFS, FAT32, etc.)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearm Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 what format does it need to be??? im supper interested in knowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZIN_LOW Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 I'm interested in knowing as we'll. I bought a 500g Matsunichi portable hard drive. But my 2011 r/t doesn't recgonize it. What type of hard drive did u use?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris1276 Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Im not sure.. But i believe its FAT32. I couldnt check it because some some bastard broke in to my car and stole it. I just lost my 12000 songs, videos and photos. It took me time to download such. It was trancend 250g portable hard drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenweekooo Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 I have not tried a HDD, but when i was updating the software it would not recognize my NTFS formatted thumb drive, but Fat32 worked fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxguru Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 I had a few problems with music playing on any USB on the Journey until I figured out the way to get it working. Formatted as fat32 first. Changed all album titles and song titles removing any symbol other that letters or numbers. I removed all hyphens as well. Works like a charm on my Music now. Haven't tried a large drive yet but I can store quite a lot of Music on a 16 Gig USB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Official Dodge Support DodgeCACares Posted September 10, 2014 Official Dodge Support Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 I had a few problems with music playing on any USB on the Journey until I figured out the way to get it working. Formatted as fat32 first. Changed all album titles and song titles removing any symbol other that letters or numbers. I removed all hyphens as well. Works like a charm on my Music now. Haven't tried a large drive yet but I can store quite a lot of Music on a 16 Gig USB. linuxguru, Great information! Format is certainly something to be aware of when trying to play music through the system. There are so many different formats out now which can cause some compatibility issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McGaffin Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Will a 1 TB external hard drive work in a 2014 Journey? I have no reading on the display when I plug in the hard drive USB. The file format of the music is wma, but also in NTSB. Can anyone help out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jye English Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Tom, I just got my 500GB external HDD to work. It's got to be formatted as FAT32, with .mp3 music files, in order to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roly Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I just wish that the unit would read mp4 or avi type video files through the usb or sd card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfurth Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 FAT32 is a VERY old standard - it works across multiple platforms because software developers recognize that their operating systems are not the only systems that exist. Mac, Linux, Windows, Unix, etc. can all read FAT32. NTFS is basically Windows XP and up only. HFS/HFS+ is Mac OS X (all flavors). You have one limitation with FAT32 - file size. No files can exceed 4 GB. So if you have ridiculously large audio files, say a book in audio format that hasn't been broken down by chapter for some reason, you might have a problem. dhh3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhh3 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 FAT32 is a VERY old standard - it works across multiple platforms because software developers recognize that their operating systems are not the only systems that exist. Mac, Linux, Windows, Unix, etc. can all read FAT32. NTFS is basically Windows XP and up only. HFS/HFS+ is Mac OS X (all flavors). You have one limitation with FAT32 - file size. No files can exceed 4 GB. So if you have ridiculously large audio files, say a book in audio format that hasn't been broken down by chapter for some reason, you might have a problem. Good to know this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolest2004 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Hello, i have a question for you guys that have a HD over 32gb, you say your 500gb HD works, ok i tried a 160gb and worked too, but if i store more than certain amount of mp3's i can not read them all, so i was thinking there is a limit as how many files or GB can be read, i took out my HD and bought a couple of 32GB USB sticks and it works fine, but ripping at 320kbps 32GB really isnt much of a storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfurth Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) The radio has to store some amount of data ( manual indicates sync speed of 1,000 songs in 5 minutes). Given this, there must be some long term storage, just enough to remember where files are from a synchronized device. Since this thing is supposed to work well with iPods (which the old iPod classics would be 250g hard drives), it's got to be a high limit. But 500 GB and 1 TB drives are going to have problems with getting enough power to operate through a USB cable (unless they've been built to run off of that low power). Edited March 14, 2015 by bfurth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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