USB stick unsupported?

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I'm trying to use a USB2 16GB Sandisk Cruzer for my music library. I have tried both exFAT and FAT32. It claims the device is unsupported either way. Any idea what's going on here?

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Artist/Album/songs

I had no issue with a USB3 32GB Sandisk that I needed for something else. I believe it was FAT32.
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I think it's the USB 2.

I have a USB3 Samsung 64GB close fit drive I was using. It worked great.

I thought that since I was wasting all that space (music library is only ~10GB) I would get a 16GB drive and use the Samsung elsewhere.

I bought a 16GB Sandisk that was USB2 and it was a flop.

It did actually work, but it would take forever to index, like 20 minutes before you could use the search.

I put the Samsung back in and no problems.
 

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I have 2 USB sticks in my Ranger. One is a Sandisk 128GB with just albums on it. About 10,000 songs. The other is a 64GB stick (can't remember the brand) with just singles on it. They are labeled Albums and Singles so I know which is which on the source screen.. No issues at all.
 
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Actually, as it turns out the Sandisk USB stick that didn't work was USB2, and the one that did work was also USB2. No idea????
 

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sometimes there are just weird compatibility problems. sometimes they go bad. easiest answer is to just try a different one. it's definitely not because it's usb2.
 


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did anyone figure this out by chance? Does it have to do where we are formatting it from?
 

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did anyone figure this out by chance? Does it have to do where we are formatting it from?
That shouldn't matter. Its probably a bad USB drive. Try another one.
 

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ya. i did too different ones, nothing. i did EXfat for both. and then i also tried Fat32. neither worked. Idk why. i've done multiple.
 

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ya. i did too different ones, nothing. i did EXfat for both. and then i also tried Fat32. neither worked. Idk why. i've done multiple.
Maybe its the USB port? Doesn't anything work in the port?
 
 



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