Does the drive go into the same port for Android auto?

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Yes it does.

 

i'm not usually a fan of Sandisk (usually purchase PNY or Kingston), but this would be worth a try for the price. appears Sandisk is making more of these mini usbs than anyone so far.

but 1st i need to try copying some CDs to a usb 1st and try it in my CRV. still have not done that..:geezer:

 

i'm not usually a fan of Sandisk (usually purchase PNY or Kingston), but this would be worth a try for the price. appears Sandisk is making more of these mini usbs than anyone so far.

Samsung makes a similar drive, for a few bucks more, if you like that brand better:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B013CCTNKU/ref=psdcmw_3151491_t3_B077VYCV37

 

yes. there is only 1 port for music connection in 2018 crv.

 

Thanks Robby, going to order the 128gb one ?

 

I currently have a usb drive plugged into the non android auto port and I can play movies off of it just fine.

 

interesting... as the 2018 manual lists the 3 of 4 for charging only.

 

Good suggestion. I have a couple of them and they are great.
I have one filled with my library connected to my home AVR...you don't see it, never in the way, fast...works great.

 

Well my 2017 has the two ports up front and one is normally a usb cable for android auto and the other has a sandisk 128gb drive in it. I love having music loaded on the drive, but its not very good music.

 

lucky you!

 

What I use, also for djing
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N...Y340_QL65&keywords=SanDisk+Extreme+CZ80+64GB&dpPl=1&dpID=31z3Gfyq6oL&ref=plSrch

 

What I use, also for djing
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N...Y340_QL65&keywords=SanDisk+Extreme+CZ80+64GB&dpPl=1&dpID=31z3Gfyq6oL&ref=plSrch

I like Rob's idea of the super small USB.

 

I have a usb filled with music, backup in case I leave my iPhone at home, and another with pictures on it the change the screen image...I use the passenger side usb for them.

 

I’ve been using a SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB USB 30 Flash Drive plugged into the right side for my music for well over a year now. I use the left side for Android Auto.
I haven’t noticed any heat issues but I don’t reach down there very often. It holds about 2000 songs which I generally play in “Random All Folders” mode. It never gets boring.

 

I saw this yesterday and I was hesitating to pull the trigger because of few reviews but now I will get one

 

I ordered something like this - taking a month to get here.

USB extension short left/right

They usually come in 2 packs - look for the left and right combination. I plan to use the one angled down for the usb stick (i want it to rest flush with the base of the tray) and the one angled slightly higher will be used to connect the phone. I find plugging things into the usb to be awkward at bast and am not thrilled about the possibility of wearing out the USB connector on the car.

you can also find them with a more flexible cable.

Will post how it ends up looking/working out when it gets here.

 

I ordered something like this - taking a month to get here.

USB extension short left/right

They usually come in 2 packs - look for the left and right combination. I plan to use the one angled down for the usb stick (i want it to rest flush with the base of the tray) and the one angled slightly higher will be used to connect the phone. I find plugging things into the usb to be awkward at bast and am not thrilled about the possibility of wearing out the USB connector on the car.

you can also find them with a more flexible cable.

Will post how it ends up looking/working out when it gets here.

 

I ordered something like this - taking a month to get here.

USB extension short left/right.

doesn't that just piss you off? i ordered an extender from newegg.com - 6 wks - and 2 wks of it was becuz where they placed their order was on 2 wk holiday and they were closed.

 

I have found that using a short extension works best for me. An 8" extension once plugged in is easy to pull out and plug in the flash drive and then tuck back in.

 

I found several USB extension cables of 1 foot or less at Newegg.
Two of the 6" cables had a large plastic "collar" around the female end that the USB drive would plug into, which I thought was better than just an exposed metal female connector.

Both were made by companies I've bought products from before: StarTech and Cables to Go
The Cables to Go was US $4.04 and the StarTech was US $5.97.

The StarTech had free 4-7 business day shipping, the Cables to Go was US $0.99 for 4-7 business day shipping.

Both were in stock.

I've had more issues with Amazon than I've had with Newegg.
Amazon is on my permanent "never again" list.
Newegg is on my "caution" list.

 

In another thread I posted I use a 256 GIG drive and works fine. The only limitations I can't search anymore songs if you have over the 20,000 song maximum..

 

In another thread I posted I use a 256 GIG drive and works fine. The only limitations I can't search anymore songs if you have over the 20,000 song maximum.. View attachment 119377

My God man how did you even find 20,000 songs that you liked?
I spent a few hours each day for about 3 weeks and could only find about 550 songs that I enjoy listening to and that most of my family and friends also like or at least find bearable.

Rob

 

Can you do a voice command search on your USB music? I'm not having much luck with that.

 

We have about 9k tunes on our sticks (one in our '16 Civic, the other waiting to go in our '18 CR-V when it gets here). We use a Lexar S45 USB3 128GB and one of the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 128 GB sticks. Nothing against the SanDisk, but I would have gladly bought another of the Lexars if Micron hadn't given up the business.

The problem with so many tunes is the LAME Display Audio system's total non-support for embedded metadata. No "By Genre", "By Artist", "By Album" or anything like that. And no support for playlists. So how to organize the folders and mangle track names becomes a real issue since folders are the only way to control what tracks the thing it going to play.

Oh, and on the '16 Civic, "Random in Folder" is broken to the point that it will play only 3 or 5 or 17 random tracks from a folder with thousands of track before it will bump to the next folder randomly. We reported this to Honda about two years ago. But Honda does not believe in infotainment updates. So it's never seen a fix. We're curious to see if this bug persists in 2018 CR-V.

Media player support in Honda Display Audio is much less capable (except in amount of files/folders supported) than it was in our recently sold '07 CR-V EX-L N. That's really sad.

Edited to add: the other issue with an entire huge library on the stick is that Display Audio re-indexes or something everytime you start the '16 Civic so it can be a minute or more before it starts playing if you have 9k tracks. I suspect the lag to start playing from a 20k track stick is twice as long. Unless the newer CR-V code has re-factored how they do this.

 

We have about 9k tunes on our sticks (one in our '16 Civic, the other waiting to go in our '18 CR-V when it gets here). We use a Lexar S45 USB3 128GB and one of the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 128 GB sticks. Nothing against the SanDisk, but I would have gladly bought another of the Lexars if Micron hadn't given up the business.

The problem with so many tunes is the LAME Display Audio system's total non-support for embedded metadata. No "By Genre", "By Artist", "By Album" or anything like that. And no support for playlists. So how to organize the folders and mangle track names becomes a real issue since folders are the only way to control what tracks the thing it going to play.

Oh, and on the '16 Civic, "Random in Folder" is broken to the point that it will play only 3 or 5 or 17 random tracks from a folder with thousands of track before it will bump to the next folder randomly. We reported this to Honda about two years ago. But Honda does not believe in infotainment updates. So it's never seen a fix. We're curious to see if this bug persists in 2018 CR-V.

Media player support in Honda Display Audio is much less capable (except in amount of files/folders supported) than it was in our recently sold '07 CR-V EX-L N. That's really sad.

so is the bottom line to your statement that the more Honda pushes us newer tech, the lower the quality is? i.e. remove CDplay and aux plug, reduce capability using USB?

so are we better off buying/using IPOD? (just a question here)

i'm sad about much of the audio.. but other items on the CRV are better.

 

I could agree to losing the CD functionality IF... there was an aux jack!

BUT there isn't.

Since the HU is android based, it would be great if there was some kind of USB dongle that accepted an aux input. I have a feeling that won't happen.

 

Probably not.
https://www.lifewire.com/usb-to-aux-cable-in-car-audio-3986249

 

I have a 2018 CR-V EX-L. I have a stubby USB stick in the USB port in the center console (passenger side) and I keep about 4500 songs on it, in three subfolders. The cover of the USB port does close just fine over the short USB stick. I haven't had to deal with it since I put it in. It's easy to remove to add or update songs.

My subfolders were previously named "01," "02," and "03" because... well, just because. The audio interface addresses the root folder of the USB stick as "01," and the first subfolder as "02" and the second subfolder as "03" and the third subfolder as "04." This confused me at first, but after I realized what it was doing, I renamed my subfolders as "Fav1," "Fav2, etc. This made it easier to navigate the folders. The car still thinks the root folder is folder "01."

Music quality is good--no worse than the mp3 source music as it's recorded on the USB stubby. The USB stick has never been warm to the touch.

Does anyone know how many total folders the system will access? Or how many total songs? To member who had a 20K song limit, was that a limitation for the audio system or for the USB stick?

Thanks.

 

the thumbnail sized scandisk flash drives are the best imo, they are small enough that there's zero risk of them getting accidentally snapped off if something gets thrown in the center console area...i have a 16 gb drive that holds more mp3's than i'll ever listen to...

 

Moving to Mobile Electronics section. My phone has a 200 Gb microSD card in it,so I carry all of my almost 2500 albums with me and play them anywhere. In a car I can use the AUX or USB, out of it I can use headphones or bluetooth or external speakers, etc. But honestly I mostly listen to a fairly narrow range of stuff when driving. I need to go ahead and make a driving music playlist and just include what I will realistically actually listen to on the road.