One question: Can the "external hard drive" USB port be used to listen to files stored on a flash drive?
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Hi Doc Sarvis,This Audio System must be connected to a PC or laptop only. Thanks. >Joffrey
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Hi Doc Sarvis, This Audio System must be connected to a PC or laptop only. Thanks. &gt;Joffrey
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Doc - Any external USB device for the Sony has to formatted by Sony player first , then you can play/access your tunes from it ! You just can't plug in any USB peripheral device and try to access music from it ! Format the USB device by the Sony ,load music on it , and then you can access it and play your tunes ! Brian
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No the External Drive will be reformatted to SOny's proporietary disk layout. You can attached a USB drive, but it will erase everything on it and then reformatt to hold overflow music from HDD
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HI .... I only had this unit for a short time, and then returned it! I don't believe it had a "Flash Drive" - Capability. ............. Regards, JCN.
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no. this is strictly an external backup drive with usb as the sole interface to the computer.
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Sorry, I have not tried that. I got this unit to use with my phone but it should be able to handle reading the external drive
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Yes, it will read whatever is on the USB flash drive. It also accepts SD cards.
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Yes, you can play music directly from a flash drive. You can plug in an size flash drive into the usb port.
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No, I purchased this unit for that purpose and it didn't work. I could see and read files from the USB drive but could not save files to the drive. The problem seemed to be that it was so slow the write failed due to time out, not permissions.
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No, you can just connect it via USB and view all files just like any exterior drive
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Read/Write speed, how fast you can transmit your files from/to the flash drive
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Not sure what review that is, but I use a flash drive plugged into the USB port all the time and have no problems turning the volume up or down. The volume works just the same as when listening to a CD or the radio tuner.
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You can read the files, bit you cannot transfer to it unless it is inserted into usb port..
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The simple answer is: No. The USB ports are for moving data from the Network Drive to a flash drive (or vice versa).
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What types of files can be played from that flash drive if connected to USB port in the front? 320 kbps MP3? FLAC?
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It does work with my flash drive, but I've never tried an external hard drive. I'm not sure how it would handle a hard drive with other types of files on it.
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It does have a USB port for playing media from a USB drive, but both units died before I got to try it.
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You just plug it and open the file explorer. In there you can access the flash drive.
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Your could do if the Flash drive is big enough. Personally I use an external hard drive to back up data. and just use the flash drives for portable data. If you want to back up more than just data [software/ settings] then you would need disc replicating software.