I was wondering if anyone has a deck with the USB input for thumb drives etc. The reason I am asking is because I was thinking about getting one. I have a spare 40gig hard drive and was wondering if I got a ide to Usb converter if the stereo would handle it. I am probably going to call JVC or someone, but I was just seeing if maybe anyone has tried. Yeah I know I'm wierd.

 

JVC makes one

 

Yeah, JVC is the deck I was looking at, but I want to know if it will support a hard drive using USB rather than a thumb drive.

 

I wouldn't see why not - as long as no extra drivers are necessary. If the USB->IDE cable doesn't need a driver (ie the computer/head unit just see's it as a USB mass storage device) it should work fine.

 

That's what I was thinking. I visited JVCs website and the description says load up to 1gig on a thumb drive, so I guess maybe thats the limit. I guess navigating through all that while you drive would be a hazard anyway.

 

im thinking it will be ok, storage is storage.

 

Now that you say that - it's possible the deck has a limit to how much it can recognize. It might let you hook a 40gig drive up with no trouble but only see 1gig of it! Wouldn't that suck. Unless they just say up to 1gig because that was the biggest memory stick out at the time the writeup was done.



I think your best bet is to call JVC.

 

Well... go down to your local stereo shop with the hdd and the convertor, hook it up to a USB capable deck and see if it works. I'd assume you'd test the deck before you bought it.

 

I was going to find out if it would work before I even bought the converter, but yes I'm going to test it before I buy it and I am calling JVC today or next week.

 

no it doesnt work

only reads off thumb drives... i used to work at BestBuy and i tried it out cuz i thought that would be awesome... but no luck

 

I got a JVC head unit that has the usb port on it.
I have had no major problems, it recognized all the music on the ipod i hooked up to it (4gb)
the only problem was if your trying to find a certain song takes a while because you have to scroll through them one by one
other than that it works great
its probably better if you use a thumb drive that has a certain selection of music on it that you want to listen to, that way its much easier to find the songs you want, unless you dont mind listening to the music shuffled

 

jvc decks are ok. i rather go with kenwood, in this situation. they have one too.

 

SONY makes a deck where the face plate is a 1Gig memory card, so when you take the plate off at night you can take it inside and store 1 gig of songs on it like a thumb drive...

Sony's MEX1GP Xplod™ CD Player with Built-in MP3 Memory

 

Go with Pioneer nothing comes close to Pioneer with everything you get for your $. All my cars have it and wouldnt put nothing other then Pioneer

 

Kenwood makes the "keg" i believe it's called. which uses a 40 gig drive

 

Sony's car audio is bush league! everyone i know who has used Sony's car audio products have had problems.

 

sony blows or just blows up. pioneer or alpine i would go. but they dont have USB decks. so therefore go with the kenwood deck with it or do that keg thing...lol

 

I agree sony not the greatest thing and would go with Pioneer. Apline is good but if you are looking for great sound and plan to add amps go with an Eclipse radio. They have 5volt pre outs and pioneer or Alpine can touch them. The only down side on Eclipse is the FM/AM tuner isn't the greatest it will not pick up stations like a Pioneer will but how listen to FM radio anymore when you have Ipods and xm radio? The USB thing isnt that great...

 

thats cool never seen that one b4

 

I dont believe it will work. USB devices dont require alot of Power. HardDrives do. So it might work if you have an external power for it but the key is might.

 

Did you not put the files in seperate folders?

like put AC/DC in one and Metallica in another and so on? or do it by Genere? Or cant you do it that way. that is what I do for MP3 disks on the stock stereo.

 

i use the JVC KD-AR960 it takes SD cards...its a great deck..


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