Can anyone tell me about the ease of use with playing from sd card or flash drive?
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Its ALL linear. In other words, if you like most of us keep your music in folders, this speaker can only play one folder and NOT go to the next. You would have to put all of your music onone root directory and just keep hitting the >>> button till it advances or .......just let it play linear. Its very primitive but the price for what it does do right is right!
2016083
Its ALL linear. In other words, if you like most of us keep your music in folders, this speaker can only play one folder and NOT go to the next. You would have to put all of your music on one root directory and just keep hitting the &gt;&gt;&gt; button till it advances or .......just let it play linear. Its very primitive but the price for what it does do right is right!
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I have 1000+ games on my SD card. It's awesome! Feel free to contact me if you need help. Best of luck to you.
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Boris...I found your comments helpful. I got the 8GB Zen about a month ago. I really like it. My biggest qualm is the SD card. I find that the player freezes very often when I play from the SD card...especially when I play video. I've had no such issues when playing off the internal memory. I got a generic SD card brand. I noticed that the product page on the creative web site has a compatible list of memory cards... should i stick to them to minimize the 'freezing' incidents ? I am interested to know what brand you are using. thanks in advance.
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I might be a little slow - What about expandable memory - can I load music movie and content onto the sd card? or are you all saying it can only read and save content pulled over from another device like my laptop.
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I play music and videos fine from the internal memory. Mp3 for songs and mpeg2 works for videos hope this helps!
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sadly...no. The transfer utility is great though and the player works quickly and painlessly with any number of computer media players. This is our second Sony and both are extraordinary. Sound is great with lots of enhancements etc...I have never had a storage problem. Take the plunge...you won't regret it......
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It has to be stored on a USB...with a limit of GB. In hindsight, a player that accepts a higher USB storage capacity-would be better
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This uses a SD card. I believe it can also use a USB thumb drive.Mine is defective, so I haven't used it much. Initially it would generate a motorboat noise over the audio within a few seconds of use, now it plays up to about 15 minutes before the distortion starts.
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my answer is that it was extremely difficult to download anything onto this player, and if you did get something downloaded, it was hard to get it to play...this device was a huge disappointment to me and my children.
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Hi there. I have 32 gb flash drive and am able to get into subfolders without any problem. Also tried with phone storage with in 64gb and not issues. Able to play any song from the root and sub folders as well.
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The song loading time is actually quite good, even when switching to different artists. The only slow part, is when you initially select USB as the input. It takes close to 10 seconds to actually load my 8gb flash drive. But after that it's fairly fast. I have not yet played any videos from the USB input, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different from songs.
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You certainly can, that is how I almost always use the player. I have a short flash drive that I populated with music from my computer that I plug into the system and it plays it with no problem.
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I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant. It also runs much slower than using a usb drive as a result. I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant.... » Read More I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant. It also runs much slower than using a usb drive as a result. « Show Less
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Depends, most cannot. These players are not very sophisticated. Go to a "pad" or netbook if want games as well as music, video, pictures, ebooks plus you can use the internet as well, r00t
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You can upload content on the micro SD card slot that is available and play it while connected via USB. Otherwise you'll need a wifi connection for other streaming functions
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Technically you can use the slowest memory cards, especially if you copy music to the card through the player (which is USB 2.0). Alternatively, you can copy files using a USB 3.0 card reader, then you benefit from using a faster card. Playback is not affected by the card speed rating.
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Hi Gissie,I use the supplied Sony "MediaGo" application to download songs and other files to the player and it seems to work just fine for me. It's intuitive and easy to use and reasonably responsive. I hope that helps!