Playing lossless music through my new Crosstar’s system.

[Kremmen]

In older systems even MP3 had limitations and you had to ensure they were created using a compatible Hz

From memory I think it was 44k or something like that

Maybe these other formats have different specs, some work, some don't

[No Vice]

Yesterday I managed to convert and copy my old ALAC (Apple Lossless)  Itunes files, originally recorded from my vinyls to CDR and thence to my,  ipod,  to a 32fat formatted pendrive in Flac (generic lossless) format and the system reads and plays the pendrive. The jury is out on the quality of reproduction so far as  I have no real idea of what the car system is capable of. My only benchmark is Spotify free in the car and suffice to say that FM radio sounds better. Time will tell but at least I have retrieved my old recordings/rips from my vinyl collection. I actually listened to the first "Faces" LP and another by Little Walter on my way to work. I almost cried........ like going back to self recorded cassettes
I have yet to try and download the Metadata for titles and  set tags so I can´t choose songs but I intend to have a collection of small pendrives for Soul, another for Blues, another for Van the Man only etc. etc. It´s really impressive how you just plug them in, the system recognises the manufacturer (Phillips, Sandisk, Kingston or whatever) and starts playing.  An almost analogue touch in an antiseptic digital world. A bit like the car.

[5thcivic]

The manual 32GB is just a historical artefact from SDHC cards which were the max standard up to about 2010 when SDXC came out and increased the standard up to a theoretical 2TB. That is why windows will not format larger than 32GB cards or flash drives as FAT32 since exFat was needed as the new standard for the larger portable capacities.

I would be very surprised if 64 or 128G cards in readers or flash drives do not work, all you should need to do is format them to Fat32, which is very easy to do with a free third party program like Fat32format which I have used for years. The download now has a windows GUI so you don't need to enter text in a command box anymore.

https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format-GUI.shtml