USB drive organization

[tps]

I am using a 256GB Sandisk low profile USB memory in my 2022 LEAF SV Plus. The stick came formatted ExFAT, so I used fat32format.exe to reformat it, then copied a bunch of FLAC files onto it. They play fine in the LEAF.

[coulomb]

However, the very next song after this goes back to that first randomly selected song. After that, the sequence continues, playing EXACTLY the same song selections as when it first "shuffled". Manually selecting a different song does no good - as soon as the selected song is over, the old "random" sequence starts up again.

It sounds like they forgot to seed the random number generator with something random, like the length of time the user takes to press a button. So you're getting a pseudo random sequence, which seems random at first, but as you see isn't random at all. Your shuffling analogy is spot on.

It would need a software update to fix this, and Nissans aren't Teslas. So I'd say you'll need a third party solution. Perhaps using your phone somehow.

[BillyBuerger]

I recently purchased a 2023 Nissan Leaf and had concerns about using a USB drive for music playback. I also have a 2012 Prius and was surprised at that time how bad it handled USB and reading some of the older messages here was concerned it might have been a problem on my Leaf as well. But I was happy to see more recent messages suggested it should be better. I can confirm that it's overall working well. I picked up a 128GB PNY mini USB drive, formatted it as NTFS and loaded it up with flac files and it all is working just fine. I have some complaints about the overall system as it seems a bit slow to respond when reading and browsing the files. It also seems to stop at the end of a folder instead of moving to the next one. The issues are relatively minor but might still have me looking at using Android Auto or Bluetooth for playing music from my phone. But that has issues as well that I don't like. Thanks for all the information here.