Music files copied to thumb drive with Mint not detectable to car radio
by mfrank84 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FRDH)
New to the forum and hope someone can help me out. I hope this is the right spot to ask since I'm using Mint on a laptop that I converted from Windows.
I can't seem to get any music files downloaded to a thumb drive using Mint to work in a brand new Sony head unit I put in my car. The new radio does recognize the thumb drive that was working in the radio I replaced. I believe the music on that thumb drive was copied using Windows before I switched over to Mint. If I add a music file to that current functioning thumb drive using Mint, the radio will not recognize the song but still recognizes all the existing songs. I ordered two new thumb drives, formatted in FAT32, and copied about twenty songs on one of them. I plugged that thumb drive into the new radio and it immediately comes back with an undetectable error message. I'm assuming it can't detect the music because it does recognize that a thumb drive has been connected. I can plug that thumb drive back into the laptop with Mint and play any of the songs with no problem.
My question:
Is there anything in Mint that would cause this to happen? In this instance shouldn't a computer running Mint be able to do the the same thing a computer running Windows does when it comes to copying music to thumb drives? I don't have access to a Windows computer to experiment with. It's becoming a little frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I can't seem to get any music files downloaded to a thumb drive using Mint to work in a brand new Sony head unit I put in my car. The new radio does recognize the thumb drive that was working in the radio I replaced. I believe the music on that thumb drive was copied using Windows before I switched over to Mint. If I add a music file to that current functioning thumb drive using Mint, the radio will not recognize the song but still recognizes all the existing songs. I ordered two new thumb drives, formatted in FAT32, and copied about twenty songs on one of them. I plugged that thumb drive into the new radio and it immediately comes back with an undetectable error message. I'm assuming it can't detect the music because it does recognize that a thumb drive has been connected. I can plug that thumb drive back into the laptop with Mint and play any of the songs with no problem.
My question:
Is there anything in Mint that would cause this to happen? In this instance shouldn't a computer running Mint be able to do the the same thing a computer running Windows does when it comes to copying music to thumb drives? I don't have access to a Windows computer to experiment with. It's becoming a little frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.