[Rod Laird]

To my surprise it turns out the ipace plays lossless high bit rate FLAC files. Fantastic sound quality. This is not a format that Jaguar's manual says is supported. So a winner.

Less of a winner is USB stick comparability. Cannot get it to recognise anything over 64GB (using Sandisk). Putting smaller FAT32 partitions on bigger drives also a fail. Manual says is happy with up to 128GB. Seems not Sandisk at least. And only FAT32...? Really?

Any tips on larger than 64GB USBs appreciated...

Rod in Oz

 

[PS702]

I only use FLAC files in the I-Pace which is great and it does work with 128g

Do you have a Mac or windows machine?

 

[Rod Laird]

I have a windows machine. Stick used clean from supplier. I.e. no new format so still FAT32

 

[PS702]

Have you tried to reformat into FAT32?
Is it USB 3.0 or 3.1?

 

[Rod Laird]

Have you tried to reformat into FAT32?
Is it USB 3.0 or 3.1?

Its a Sandisk SDCZ430 which is a 3.1 standard... Which may be the problem!

 

[PS702]

Its a Sandisk SDCZ430 which is a 3.1 standard... Which may be the problem!

USB 3.1 should be your problem. I had to switch to 3.0 and it worked fine with all of my files which are FLAC

Although I've heard others are able to use 3.1, I wasn't able to

 

[Bob O]

Interesting . What bit rates have you found are supported ?

 

[PS702]

Im using 320k

These are ripped from Spotify with each file is ateast 28mb
I also have an MP4 video that I can watch

I actually use USB 2.0 because I had one sitting around

I would test a few large, high bitrate files on any other USB stick you have.

 

[Rod Laird]

I have played 2.9Mbps FLAC material with no problem. Sounds sweet..

 

[rslvid]

To my surprise it turns out the ipace plays lossless high bit rate FLAC files. Fantastic sound quality. This is not a format that Jaguar's manual says is supported. So a winner.

Less of a winner is USB stick comparability. Cannot get it to recognise anything over 64GB (using Sandisk). Putting smaller FAT32 partitions on bigger drives also a fail. Manual says is happy with up to 128GB. Seems not Sandisk at least. And only FAT32...? Really?

Any tips on larger than 64GB USBs appreciated...

Rod in Oz

Try formatting the drive as FAT32 (MS-DOS (FAT)) with MASTER BOOT RECORD. Other partition schemes won't work in the Jag. I'm using 5.1 multichannel FLAC music files on a 128GB SSD in my I-Pace.

 

[Rod Laird]

• Try formatting the drive as FAT32 (MS-DOS (FAT)) with MASTER BOOT RECORD. Other partition schemes won't work in the Jag. I'm using 5.1 multichannel FLAC music files on a 128GB SSD in my I-Pace.

Thanks for that. A MBR is a record at the start of a disk partition - no more. It is not a partition type. If USB drives came with an MBR on them they would be a potential boot source on computers that booted with them inserted!! It has to be a standard Primary partition, not EFI or logical... I have utilities for format large USB drives with FAT32 - and have even created smaller partitions to see if the partition size is the problem (and with commensurately smaller block sizes - for that could also be an hiccough). It does not seem to be so.

So USB 3.1 seems to be the culprit. Possibly fixable with a software update - so we wait for S20b - which in turn awaits the end of lock down for the affected S/W engineers...

thanks again

Rod