joeyfan
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I'm having a problem with my ability to play music from USB that apparently (according to my local Honda dealer) nobody else in the world has ever experienced. When playing a song from USB the head unit will randomly pause the song, back it up a half-second and resume playing it back again after about one second of silence. It does it several times per song. Therefore I get angry several times per song. I have a new-to-me 2017 Civic Sport HB with the old non-touchscreen head unit.
As for the files being played, I have six folders containing a total of 3.17GB of mp3 files (580 songs). The MP3 files are generally 128 kbps or 192 kbps bit rate. I have exact copies of these songs on a 32GB PNY USB 3.0 drive, a 32GB USB 2.0 drive and an 8GB USB 2.0 drive. The drives contain only the folders and songs - no unplayable files like .TXT, etc and I don't even have album art files. The same behavior is exhibited using any of these drives so I feel like I eliminated the type, size and speed of the USB drive as a variable.
What I'm thinking is happening is that the head unit is too slow to play the song continuously and it has to stop and "catch up" with the song. It remembers the point at which it stopped playing and backs up just before it when resuming so I know it's not disconnecting from the USB drive due to a bad connection in the USB port. A disconnection should result in the first song in the first folder starting to play upon resuming.
Anyone else encountered this? Better yet, has anyone had the problem and SOLVED it?
Fun fact: the service tech "noticed that I had HID headlights retrofitted and that may affect the radio's performance". FM reception, maybe, but not USB direct-connection to the head unit. It would have been fruitless to try to convince him otherwise...
As for the files being played, I have six folders containing a total of 3.17GB of mp3 files (580 songs). The MP3 files are generally 128 kbps or 192 kbps bit rate. I have exact copies of these songs on a 32GB PNY USB 3.0 drive, a 32GB USB 2.0 drive and an 8GB USB 2.0 drive. The drives contain only the folders and songs - no unplayable files like .TXT, etc and I don't even have album art files. The same behavior is exhibited using any of these drives so I feel like I eliminated the type, size and speed of the USB drive as a variable.
What I'm thinking is happening is that the head unit is too slow to play the song continuously and it has to stop and "catch up" with the song. It remembers the point at which it stopped playing and backs up just before it when resuming so I know it's not disconnecting from the USB drive due to a bad connection in the USB port. A disconnection should result in the first song in the first folder starting to play upon resuming.
Anyone else encountered this? Better yet, has anyone had the problem and SOLVED it?
Fun fact: the service tech "noticed that I had HID headlights retrofitted and that may affect the radio's performance". FM reception, maybe, but not USB direct-connection to the head unit. It would have been fruitless to try to convince him otherwise...
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