MP3s skipping when played from USB drive

[PolkSDA]

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered sporadic skipping with MP3s on USB thumb drives?

It's not all MP3s, just certain ones in certain places. I've not been isolate whether it has anything to do with the bitrate, as I've seen it on 192k VBR as well as 320k non-VBR mp3s.

I can play those same mp3s on other devices and they play fine. I have verified that it is not just this particular thumb drive, as I have tried 2 different ones with the same results.

Anyone else?

 

[Blue hedgehog]

I've noticed it on my iPhone 5, thought i was going crazy the 1st few times i heard it. I don't know if its the phone or radio. Also I have no idea about USB drives since I don't have any music on one yet.

 

[mowcowbell]

Make sure the USB flash drive is formatted as FAT32. I have heard some folks having issues with USB flash drives when formatted as NTFS.

 

[PolkSDA]

Update: I experimented some more with 2 more flash drives, both formatted FAT32 from the factory. In each case, when I reformatted them using the "System default" cluster size, that fixed the problem. One of them had an 8K cluster size from the factory and I don't recall what the other one was.

Unfortunately, I don't know what cluster size "system default" sets it to, so I guess what you can take from this is that even if the thumb drive may be formatted FAT32, it may not be the particular flavor of FAT32 that MyLink likes...