Why won't SD card work in Hifi USB slot?

SnowWhiterThanWhite · 11 February 2011 at 9:04PM

Hi,

Have been looking around for a cheapish hifi, with USB slot.
Bought the sandstrom hifi from Currys http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/sandstrom-shfusb10-micro-hi-fi-system-black-05057336-pdt.html
Liked the look & the sound playing CD's is really good. However, tried the USB slot, and although the card reader flashed green, nothing happened?
I took the san disk SD card & reader into Currys and tried the one on display, again, nothing happened.
I then went along their display of hifis & must have tried a dozen or so, only one (an expensive Sony) worked?
Can anyone explain why the memory card would work in one but not in others?
Thanks

aliEnRIK · 11 February 2011 at 9:06PM

Formatted NTFS when it should be FAT32?

fwor · 11 February 2011 at 9:08PM

Have you checked what filesystem the SD card is formatted with? On a Windows PC you can tell by right-clicking on it and choosing properties.

Then check the HiFi's spec to see what filesystem format - and what media formats - it will support.

Patrick20 · 11 February 2011 at 9:41PM

Hi I'm going on what your post says and I've went to the currys site and found what appears to be the device. You say it has a USB slot but wont take an SD card. Thats because USB flash drives fit into USB Slots and SD cards fit into SD Slots. By the information on the curry's site it says nothing about SD support. I don't know if this is just a small mistake in terminology in your post, and the currys site not having all the info but you need to be more careful so that we can help you.

Sooler · 11 February 2011 at 10:09PM

Is your SD card a SDHC card?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-sdhc-cards.htm

A device needs to specificaly support SDHC else it will only work with standard SD cards.

SnowWhiterThanWhite · 11 February 2011 at 11:11PM

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Formatted NTFS when it should be FAT32?

Hi, I've just checked, and it's definately FAT32

SnowWhiterThanWhite · 11 February 2011 at 11:12PM

Patrick20 wrote: »

Hi I'm going on what your post says and I've went to the currys site and found what appears to be the device. You say it has a USB slot but wont take an SD card. Thats because USB flash drives fit into USB Slots and SD cards fit into SD Slots. By the information on the curry's site it says nothing about SD support. I don't know if this is just a small mistake in terminology in your post, and the currys site not having all the info but you need to be more careful so that we can help you.

Hi, I have an SD card, which is in a USB card-reader

SnowWhiterThanWhite · 11 February 2011 at 11:13PM

Sooler wrote: »

Is your SD card a SDHC card?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-sdhc-cards.htm

A device needs to specificaly support SDHC else it will only work with standard SD cards.

It's a SD card

debitcardmayhem · 11 February 2011 at 11:17PM

What files have you got on it ? ie are they Mp3s or aac or an other.
Edit: I can't really help but the info may help others

Edited again: have you tried a USB Flash Drive (rather than SD?)

aliEnRIK · 11 February 2011 at 11:18PM

SnowWhiterThanWhite wrote: »

Hi, I have an SD card, which is in a USB card-reader

Id say thats your problem

You should be using a standard usb stick (i also assumed you had used the wrong terminology)

SnowWhiterThanWhite · 11 February 2011 at 11:20PM

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

What files have you got on it ? ie are they Mp3s or aac or an other.

Hi, the SD card is from DSi - I've just checked the format of the music files, and they are MPEG.4

Why won't SD card work in Hifi USB slot?

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