I recently bought a brand new Ford Mondeo and selected the Sony in car entertainment system (not DAB) as it had the USB port to play one's music from a USB stick.
Brilliant facility..... in theory!
I bought a 16Gb USB stick and proceded to put the majority of my music collection on it.
Plugged it in and it worked fine - for about two hours!
The, when selecting USB it would display the alternating statements "Initialising" and "Track" repeatedly, and never completing the process. At the same time this killed the bluetooth phone connection as well as the voice instruction function.
I took it back to the garage and they arranged for a firmware upgrade.
In the meantime I read somewhere that it is best not to have more than 5,000 files on the stick, so I deleted a couple of albums to bring the file count below 5,000.
After firmware upgrade the garage told me that they had heard somewhere that you shouldn't use a stick larger that 6Gb.
I put the 16Gb back in and it worked fine for two days, then same old problem. So I went to the other extreme and loaded a few albums onto a 1Gb stick. It worked for one evening, then the next morning same problem.
I had copied my albums to mp3 format using Media Player in Windows 7.
Anyone got any ideas as this is really peeing me off! Lot of money for something that doesn't work!
