NX450+ 2024 USB music files 'unknown'

[GThorpe]

Hi all,

New poster with a new Lexus NX450+ 👋

I scoured these forums and can see people with similar issues but no simple resoloution, so far..

I have a USB drive loaded with albums that I took out of my Mitsubishi Outlander (and plays with no issue) but won't play in the Lexus.

It's a Kingston 8gb drive, formated to FAT32 and only files in the root directory.

I've tried every file format that Lexus claims to recognise, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, & OGG, non will play.

I've checked the tags are correct and also tried a Sandisk drive also.

The drive itself is recognised but the files list as 'uknkown' and an error message 'no music files found' pops up.

Surely it shouldn't be this hard to play a few songs!!

Please help, i'm rapidly losing what little hair I have left!

Thanks.

 

[Fusspot]

Agreed Lexus is somewhat idiosyncratic over what it's prepared to play from USB devices.

I have Sandisk 16GB drive, formatted to FAT32, but don't have any music files in the root directory, only folders, and NO sub-folders. Folders are either for album titles, or a genre, and files within as required, e.g.

E:\Fleetwood Mac - Rumours>dir
 Volume in drive E is Music
 Volume Serial Number is D449-A077

 Directory of E:\Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

08/01/2020  19:56    <DIR>          .
08/01/2020  19:56    <DIR>          ..
08/01/2020  19:56         2,654,336 01 Second Hand News.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         4,106,368 02 Dreams.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         2,142,336 03 Never Going Back Again.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,082,368 04 Don't Stop.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,498,112 05 Go Your Own Way.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,203,200 06 Songbird.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         4,307,072 07 The Chain.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,444,864 08 You Make Loving Fun.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,133,568 09 I Don't Want To Know.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         3,678,336 10 Oh Daddy.mp3
08/01/2020  19:56         4,681,856 11 Gold Dust Woman.mp3
              11 File(s)     37,932,416 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  12,972,513,280 bytes free

Note track file names start with a number, since tracks get played alphabetically. I've also stuck to MP3 format, and MP3 tags are recognised, including cover images.

There may be other layout combinations, but this one works for me.