Multimedia System SD card file limitation

[littlescrote]

I've put an SD card in my MY16 'Stereo' with folders from A to Z on containing all of my music, for example D will have Def Leppard and then that will have sub folders of Hysteria album etc, but I can only see the contents up to 'E'. Is that a number of files limitation or something and can I restructure the folders to be able to see everything on there? TIA.

 

[richr]

There appears to be a limit of around 2000 files I seem to recall. I chose to break up my collection over a couple of smaller cards by genre rather than one big card with everything on it based on what I’d read on here and elsewhere.

 

[littlescrote]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, 2000 files is no good, that's going to make things tedious. Do you know if it's any different if you plug in a USB hard drive?

 

[richr]

I know it can take a while initially when you plug in a USB drive with a lot of files (fine once it's built the index), but not sure if there is a similar limitation. SD starts up much faster.

I've got a similar folder structure on my SD cards btw, 'I/Iron Maiden/Piece of Mind' etc. Can't remember quite how many files I have got per card, but they're pretty full 16GB SD cards.

 

[littlescrote]

Good to see that there are some other old rockers on here. I can't get as far as my Maiden folder

 

[richr]

Just gone and got the SD card from the car. Current one in the slot is a 16GB card formatted as FAT32 with 2743 files in 265 folders.

So you can certainly go beyond 2000 files, I'm not sure how far beyond though. I don't know if maybe there's a restriction on card size though that might cause it not to see all of it?

 

[littlescrote]

it could be that, i think i put a 128GB card in.

 

[richr]

My MMCS manual says the maximum supported card size is 32GB, so I went for 16GB. That's an early 2015 E-11 version, I don't know if later revisions support larger cards.