USB port - Flash drive

[MArated]

Hi all, I am hoping someone could educate me before I take delivery of my new Mazda 6. I had a 6 Atenza demo overnight the other day, as I have to wait 3 months to take delivery of my new car. Dealer felt sorry for me, so decided to tease me further by allowing me to have the car for 12 hours. I decided to give the Bose system a whirl, and dumped a few mp3 files on a flash drive and plugged it into the Mazda. The flash drive's light came on, however the Mazda system didnt read or play the music. My iPhone 5 worked perfectly both via bluetooth (played Pandora very well) and by connecting it via the USB.
I have read online that flash drives work in the Mazda 6, so is anyone able to tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

 

[mrdouble99]

is your usb drive's in Fat32 or NTFS ?

Mine is in Fat32 and work

 

[agproject]

step 1. transfer music to local machine
step 2. format USB Fat32
step 3. transfer music back to USB flash - do not place the files in folders

Try that and see if that works.

 

[agproject]

https://www.mymazda.com/MusaWeb/pdf/manuals/2014_M6G_OM.pdf

page 5-22

 

[GBPaterson]

The manual doesn't indicate the supported partition formats.

From what I've been able to determine FAT32 is the best bet. For drives larger than 32GB I would recommend trying the following:

http://www.pendriveapps.com/format-fat32-larger-than-32gb/

It will let you format to the full size of the drive in FAT32

By default windows will want to format drives larger than 32GB to exFAT. I found this would cause the stick not to be recognized in the car, likewise for NTFS.