'Loading' SD Cards

[rossh]

I've bought 2 scandisk UltraII 4mb SD cards and copied .mp3 files from my Mac (especially reformatted) over to these. Have trawled most of the posts on here re these. The problem I have is when I insert these the RNS-E system just says 'loading' and nothing seems to happen...i've waited ages.. up to 20 mins for a card with loads of files and directories, and 5 minutes for a card with just 1 album in a subdirectory...

Anyone any ideas?

About to try a smaller cap. card...

[rossh]

Tried a 2Gig card (which was initially formatted in my digital cam) worked fine - first time. Looking on my Mac this card is formatted FAT16, and the 4G is formatted FAT32... have tried to reformat my 4Gig cards as FAT16, but i guess 'cos of the 2G limit on F16 it wont work...help!

[fil]

dont know about the audi system, but with not so recent devices ive found limited to 2gb max, as in my old pda, digital cam and nokia phone would run mt 2gb mmc card, but aint having non of it from a 4gb one, like wise my printer wont see more than 1 gb

[PatrickRS4]

rossh,

You've hit the nail on the head I think. The RNS-E only reads FAT formatted drives so FAT's limit is the problem. I use 2Gb cards an they are fine. Soem previous (cheaper) cards just wouldn't work and dropped the data and or format.

Good luck its worth it in the end.

Patrick

[rossh]

Some people have reported using 4Gig Cards with no problems, can anyone say what makes they have used. I think some pcs can format 4G as FAT16, (but the file number restrictions still apply)

[PetrolDave]

I use mostly 4GB SD cards in my RNS-E. Mostly "no name" hi-speed ones off eBay.

The RNS-E can read both FAT16 and FAT32, so 2GB is NOT the limit. 4GB is the limit, above that they are not SD cards but SDHC cards which the RNS-E cannot read.

I format them as FAT32, copy a maximum of 512 files PLUS folders (that's the RNS-E limit) and never have any problems. To make them easier to use I put playlists (.m3u) in the root folder, then put each album into a separate folder organised as \\artist\album\trackNN.mp3.

[rossh]

Yes, have checked, my 4G cards are SDHC...thanks Dave...i'll go and buy some cheap ones!

[rossh]

have just received the cheap ones ordered from ebay...guess what they've sent me HC cards as well. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I have mountains of the little f*****s now and none of them work.

[Mikeyboy]

Its that question again. I have the right cards (2Gb)and I can load on files that come to less than 512 including folders but when the RNS reads them it always seems to miss off the last few. Nothing I do solves this problem.
I also don't seem to get playlists. They just don't seem to appear or work under any circumtances.

So from the beginning. What is the root folder?

[55JWB]

I did a search on this subject, found this thread but still have a few questions... about to pick my car up, will have quite a drive back so would love some tunes to drive back too...

Questions are..

1. card recommendations?
2. how to format?
3. how do I set the file structure on the card to see the track names displayed?
4. is it easy and obvious how to get my music out of iTunes onto the cards?

Many thanks from a non techie, so be gentle please ;o)

Jason