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Hey guys I just put all my music on a flash drive the other day so I could use that rather than my iPod and I've had a few quirks happen already. I'm curious if y'all have too and if so if you found a fix for them. Here's what I've noticed so far...

First off, it seems almost like some songs skip like a scratched cd. These are MP3 files and I didn't have issues with them before so I'm not sure what's causing it. It does seem to be more frequent when I first start listening to anything and less frequent the longer I had it playing. It's random too. Not always on the same song or part so I know it's not the file itself.

Second, today I was listening to a couple albums. I guess I had it playing all albums because I could skip songs in one and move into the next on the list but when I got back in the truck to go home it jumped from g to w and when I tried to get back to my original album I now had a duplicate of each song in the album that wasn't there earlier in the day.

Also I did not have the random setting selected so it should've played them all in order.

Third, when I went back and found the album, after disconnecting and reconnecting the usb drive, it was back to one copy of each song but now only would play through that album rather than moving to the next on the list as I went through the songs.

Lastly, on a positive note I did notice that skipping through songs seemed to be quicker using the drive vs the iPod. The iPod would take a moment after skipping to actually advance.

Thanks guys for any ideas/advice.
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Hey guys I just put all my music on a flash drive the other day so I could use that rather than my iPod and I've had a few quirks happen already. I'm curious if y'all have too and if so if you found a fix for them. Here's what I've noticed so far...

First off, it seems almost like some songs skip like a scratched cd. These are MP3 files and I didn't have issues with them before so I'm not sure what's causing it. It does seem to be more frequent when I first start listening to anything and less frequent the longer I had it playing. It's random too. Not always on the same song or part so I know it's not the file itself.

Second, today I was listening to a couple albums. I guess I had it playing all albums because I could skip songs in one and move into the next on the list but when I got back in the truck to go home it jumped from g to w and when I tried to get back to my original album I now had a duplicate of each song in the album that wasn't there earlier in the day.

Also I did not have the random setting selected so it should've played them all in order.

Third, when I went back and found the album, after disconnecting and reconnecting the usb drive, it was back to one copy of each song but now only would play through that album rather than moving to the next on the list as I went through the songs.

Lastly, on a positive note I did notice that skipping through songs seemed to be quicker using the drive vs the iPod. The iPod would take a moment after skipping to actually advance.

Thanks guys for any ideas/advice.

Sorry for the zombie thread, but I am having the exact same issue. Playing through USB it works fine and then starts to stutter... it stops playing the song for like 1 second and then resumes. Happens completely randomly. Was there any resolution to this?

(I have a 2014 SV, standard radio)
Well, a head unit is a drastic update for a small issue. I will likely install a new head unit at some point, but in the meantime I am fine with the current OEM unit. I think I have figured out the issue... and it is with the USB itself. I am testing it out, but it appears that the unit does not like the USB. I swapped out for a 16GB USB and it is working fine. My thoughts on the reasons... it could be one of the following:

  • Did not like the PNY USB. I read somewhere that the OEM unit doesn't like PNY USBs. Not sure why that would matter, but that could be the reason it wasn't working. I swapped with a Sandisk
  • Did not like such a large USB. The USB I used was 128GB and I swapped to 16GB
  • Did not like so many songs or file folder structure. Using the smaller 16GB USB there are fewer songs so the OEM headunit might have an easier time sorting
  • The PNY USB was defective. I am testing this with my other vehicle

Thanks for all the input!
As a follow-up, the USB works fine in my other car so I am going to say that the Frontier HU doesn't like PNY USBs or the size of this USB (128GB vs 16GB).
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