On 8/16/2017 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:52:51 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 8/16/2017 3:30 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:56:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 8/16/2017 11:11 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:23:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


I have a USB powered hard drive that some friends put together for my
birthday that has just about every group, band and song ever recorded. I
think it's a 200 Gig drive and it's just about full. I listen to it
once in a great while.
I really have a hard time wrapping my head around this. I have a
little over 30 gig of music and that is more than 6000 songs. That
includes some I have never and probably never will hear. I can't
imagine what you could have that gets you up to 200 gig and that you
have actually listened to 40,000 songs. That is about 200,000 minutes
of music. (3300 hours). If you started playing that list it would take
4 1/2 months going 24/7.
I hope you have clipped out much smaller subsets of this catalog to
make it useful.
How do you manage a list like this?
It does make you and Harry much more prolific pirates than me and I
thought I was Black Beard. (mostly gray now) ;-)



The songs on the hard drive is a collection that my luthier/lawyer
friend has been putting together all his mature life. He played in a
garage band in the mid-sixties and his group had a "hit" that made it to
number 80 on the charts. Name of the band was "The Nightcrawlers" from
Daytona Beach, FL.

He has them all arranged in folders by band/group with at least one
album ... often several for each. Starts with 40's Big Band stuff, the
50's, 60's and 70's where it sorta dies off although there are some from
the 80's. I don't think I've listened to 10 or 20 percent of what's on
the disk. It's fun to browse through it though and find songs I haven't
heard in years. Some are fairly rare recordings that never made the charts.

Once in a while I'll hook it up to my computer (used to use the little
XP machine I've mentioned) and create a playlist from the drive.

It may be worth getting a thumb drive, 8g is usually plenty and
putting your favorites out there. Plug that into your car player and
you may never turn the radio on again.


I've been meaning to try plugging in the hard drive my lawyer friend
gave me into one of the USB ports in the Canyon. I don't know if it
will work or how it will be displayed on the truck's screen (assuming it
will).


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Not sure but I'd guess the USB ports are jusr for charging cell phones
and the like. Owner's manual would tell you if they could be used as
an aux source. Most new vehicles can be linked to your phone via Blue
Tooth and you can play music that way. Some older cars have a 3mm aux
jack hidden away somewhere - my wife's M-B has one in the glove
compartment. If you don't want to store MP3s on your phone you can
always bring up Pandora for free - much better choices and audio
quality than Sirius/XM in my opinion.

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I just looked it up. At first I thought I could do it. The manual says:

"A USB mass storage device can be connected to the USB port."

But three sentences later it says:

"Hard disk drives are not supported."

Then it says:

To play a USB device:

Connect the USB.
Press the MEDIA button until the connected device is shown.
While the USB source is active, press the corresponding faceplate
button for the icons on the screen to operate USB function.

USB Menu
Press the MENU knob to display the
USB menu and the following may
display:

Browse : Select to display the files
and folders on the USB device.

I might try it anyway. I don't think it will hurt anything.