I've read a little bit about people using the USB in their cars to plug in a USB flash drive rather than their iPod or iPhone. I assume you just load your mp3s on it and it will find them as it does with your iPod. But I am wondering how it works with music purchased from iTunes. Usually you have to "activate" iTunes on computers and sharing music doesn't usually work since they are "locked".

Anyone know anything about this?

 

I load my iTunes library into my USB drive & it plays without any problems. I load it by going into My Music/iTunes & load it from there.
Hope that helps.

 

That does help. Thanks! I didn't want to go out and purchase a designated USB drive without knowing since 90% of my music has been purchased from iTunes. I have a mac, not a PC, but I assume its the same principle to load them on.

One more question... have anyone been able to do playlists or shuffle all songs with this?

 

The USB drive will not support playlists. If your music is DMR protected, the Fit's stereo will not "see"it, & will not play the file. If, after loading your files into the USB you want to add a new file, it will go in as the last file. You can use the "random" setting on the stereo to shuffle your tracks.

 

Purchased Music that has not been purchased in MP3 Format will not work. the Fit Supports MP3 and WMA ONLY! It does not support the iTunes format so if you have music that has been purchased from iTunes and not in MP3 format, it will not work from a flash drive. You MUST have an iPod to play these types of files.

~SB

 

it also supports mp4

 

I've never had an issue, but I run iTunes on a pc, not a mac. I just copy my iTunes library from the "my music" folder into the USB & it plays just fine.

 

when i put itune files into a FLASH drive it does not work when iam using the flash usb drive in the car, BUT if i used an Ipod with the car via USB, it will work.

 

Vash- is your flash drive formatted properly? The Fit works with FAT32 & your drive has to be formatted that way.

 

i guess so... because it can play regular MP3s, but it cannot play itune's digitaly bought stuff. but it doesn't really matter because i use my ipod anyways in my car now.