Playing lossless music through my new Crosstar’s system.

[No Vice]

Can anyone confirm that the onboard system reads Flac or Alac music files when stored on a pendrive ? Has anyone tried to upgrade the speakers or the sound deadening in the doors ? Or is it best left alone ?

[Nicksey]

I only use MP3 files through the USB port. These I copied from the original CD using a Brennan.
As to the speaker set up, well mine is slightly biased to the front via the toggle setting and sounds good to my ears.

[sebastiand]

The manual says:

You can use the following formats to play sound or
video files on a USB flash drive.
When playing a sound file: MP3, WMA, AAC*1
,
FLAC, PCM/WAVE
When playing a video file: MP4, AVI, MKV, ASF/
WMV

So according to it, it is supported.

My personal opinion is that MP3 320Kbps quality is already overkill for any audio system you run inside a car.

[Kremmen]

I was thinking the same

Inside a car isn't an audio studio

[No Vice]

You may be right but in the day I recorded a large number (11,000 tracks) of my lps (vinyl) on to my 160Gb ipod in ALAC and they play completely hassle- free in a mate’s 10 year old Civic which detects my ipod. Unfortunately the audio system in my 2025 crosstar is nowhere near that quality or shall we say, has other virtues that I haven’t yet been able to discover. It’s a sentimental thing…..

[sebastiand]

Yeah I can fill you. I mean if I had all those FLACs even if I consider running it a placebo in a car. I'd just want to run them.

Different story is at home in an isolated room with hifi hardware.

But try converting one song to 320kbps then play it in both cars. I guess the test will show the same results. If that is the case then you can probably reach that quality by replacing the audio on the Jazz. I guess the civic had better speakers.

[No Vice]

I guess the civic had better speakers.

The point is that my new crosstar doesn’t recognise  an ipod. In the Civic it was a preset.

Hence I need to convert my files to something the Crosstar can read. Flac might be pushing it so maybe I’ll settle for mp3 or even AAC v1

[Marco1979]

Did you use the appropriate USB port? One is for charging only, the other connects to the audio system. Not sure if iPod is recognized, but I believe USB can be chosen as an input in the audio menu.

[Sean Regan]

I use a USB stick The contents are some mp3 files I've copied from my own CDs, but most are YouTube rips.
I really don't know why Honda thought a little car like mine needed eight speakers.

[sebastiand]

I guess the civic had better speakers.

Hence I need to convert my files to something the Crosstar can read. Flac might be pushing it so maybe I’ll settle for mp3 or even AAC v1

If you want I can try some flac in mine. I think I've never used an USB device to play music in car yet. (In my dad's Honda Fit second generation, I used to use "Aux/3.5mm cable"; in my other car I just use "Bluetooth Media Audio" + Spotify; and in the Jazz 2026 so far I've been using "Wireless Android auto" + Spotify without issues but i only got the car a week ago.

But in my opinion head unit should be powerful enough to process a flac. Video files are heavier.

[Kremmen]

The latest gen Jazz does have flac in its list of compatible formats

Page 330 of the online manual

[No Vice]

If you want I can try some flac in mine.

That would be great. All my digitally encoded music files are in an unloved ipod that I lent to a mate for him to copy the same original Alac files onto a pendrive for me in different formats: Aac, Flac and mp3. He is currently unwell with a shocking cold.