External hard drive in car

[SpyWriter]

I play music in car with memory stick plugged into usb port. i want greater storage capacity. Can anyone suggest a high capacity mp3 player of at least 60 gig (with drag and drop not an ipod) or alternatively will an external hard drive work?

[AlBags]

External HDD? Probably not .. and would have to be FAT formatted.
Why not use a big pen drive? Make sure car head unit can recognise drive and size.

[ChuckFickens]

You've given no details at all about what you are planning to plug said external drive into so no body will be able to tell you if one will work.

A lot of USB enabled head units have restrictions about the size of drive, amount of folders, amount of files or countless other things. so it's going to depend on the specs of your unit.

[society]

I have a 32 GB Creative MP3 player which also accommodate a memory card for additional storage. I use a 16 GB SD card for extra storage. I have over 10000 songs / music and haven't used half the storage yet. 60 GB, you talking about a lot of music!

[ChuckFickens]

10000 songs in 24GB???

You must encode them at a really low bit rate, I have about 22000 songs and it's in excess of 100GB!

[AlBags]

Yep ... 320 or FLAC is the way to go.
128 and below sounds crap.

[society]

128... sounds fine to me. I'm not high tech like you guys you know. :-)

Chuck, the hard drive alone on the MP3 holds all the music. I use the SD cards as back up / extra storage. To be exact I have 1026 songs on the hard drive.

[AlBags]

What do you do?
Regular non-stop drives to S Europe or something?
Don't you like Radio 4?

[SpyWriter]

My iPod is 8gig and i have the songs at 64 speed which has suffered in quality to get quantity.

It seems there used to be quite a lot of high capacity mp3 players but only iPod classic now.

Various mp3 players and memory sticks play on car stereo via usb

What size do pen drives go up to?

[ChuckFickens]

"What size do pen drives go up to?"

How much money have you got....

the largest commercially available at this time is a 256GB usb drive and it retails at about the £600 mark (apparently 512GB are being made but they are not for consumer use at the moment! (what are they being used for then?!))

Also, if you find one of the many USB drives that claims to be a 256GB for sale on ebay for under about £500 it will be a fake! (I've seen them on Ebay for about £20.... Yeah right!! you'd have to be pretty dumb to believe a real £600 flash drive is being sold for £20!)