I have a WD MyPassport external hard drive that I want to load a ton of music on so I can ditch the CDs. Once loaded I want to connect the hard drive to my 2016 Honda Pilot Touring via the USB and access the music I have stored on the drive. Is this possible? Has someone done something similar?
I have a 64 gig usb drive in my *2014 Pilot Touring*. I loaded pretty much everything I had in my itunes. Works great and I don't foresee ever using the cd player ever again !
Expensive and all that SSD speed will go to waste with the Pilots GUI. Not worth the cost I think. If you want to do things on the cheap you could get a msata enclosure, or a CF card enclosure to hit those capacities without sacrificing too much on costs.
I just bought a 64gb Lexar drive for the wife's Pilot and was having issues getting it to work. Others may already know this but the Pilot prefers usbs formatted as FAT32.
I run the black 128 Lexar jumpdrive with the blue LED light. Awesome little drive that doesn't get as hot as the SanDisk I had. Got it for $30 some time ago. Great little drive. Think I left it formatted as exFat. Works very well.
This has happened in my case. I hope it is worth mentioning here in this thread.
Using Windows 10 OS, every time I delete an unwanted mp3 file within the flash drive, the USB flash drive creates a "hidden" $RECYCE.BIN folder and Pilot will still recognize the deleted mp3 files and play it. I always make sure before inserting my flash drive back into my Pilot, to completely erase/remove the $RECYCLE.BIN from my flash drive.
Right click on USB drive > Properties > General Tab > Disk Cleanup
Is there a way to get it to display the folder structure as it does in Windows instead of one, long continuous tree? I've been using a thumbdrive in my '13 Altima for the last four years. I devised a folder structure:
It's very fast to navigate to a particular album with just three selections from the root folder. With the Pilot's setup, you have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll...
Is there another way to do this that I haven't thought of?
OK, so I see this is kind of an old thread, but I have not set up any USB thumbdrive yet.
Looks like FAT32 format with MBR partitioning is the way to go.
Is 64mb still a limit?
The above Directory / Subdirectory structure looks like a good one. Has anyone got the Pilot's radio to work with subdirectories?
Any other tips before I setup a new thumbdrive?
Been there and done that! Your radio will only recognize up to 64 gb of music on a usb drive. You can put more than 64 gb of music on the drive, the radio will not recognize the rest. I just brought a 120gb ipod classic and have been happy ever since.
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