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Playing music through the Ride Command with usb flashdrive

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#1 ·
I am going insane trying to figure out why my music will not play on stereo. I converted the playlist off itunes to mp3, it is formatted to fat 32. You can see the songs listed on the screen, but there is no sound or movement showing it is playing. We know it is not the speakers, because we have bluetoothed Pandora, and played radio stations.
I just can't see paying 10.99 per month for Pandora so we can listen to music when we don't ride as often as we would like.
Has anyone figured this out, or having the same issue? Thanks for any input.
I have quite a collection on itunes that I have already paid for and really want to be able to listen to them.
We have a 2020 Polaris Pro Ultimate.
 
#2 ·
I play my music from itunes with my Ipad mini plugged into the USB port and I can control it from the Ride Command screen . Maybe it's not compatible with MP3 ?
 
#3 ·
Try this.....turn on the RZR. Do not have the drive plugged in. Go to the radio station and have music coming out, then plug in the drive, switch to the USB menu and see if your music plays,

if not, then try this...

Format your drive to exFAT and do the long format not short. Look online for a free mp3 demo song and load that on the drive. Follow the above sequence for starting the drive. When I did this my drive was 32gb.
 
#4 ·
I have the same machine you do, but have never tried playing music from USB. So I dropped a few mp3 files onto a little 256MB stick formatted as FAT. Plugged it into the RZR, turned it on, selected the USB source and it worked perfectly.
 
#8 ·
I just found out that even though itunes is saying it converted to mp3 which is required, it is still actually mp4 and that won't work. I believe it is itunes that is causing the problem, not the Ride command. Trying to figure out why itunes is saying they are converted when they aren't. Thanks all.
 
#9 ·
I just found out that even though iTunes is saying it converted to mp3 which is required, it is still actually mp4 and that won't work. I believe it is iTunes that is causing the problem, not the Ride command. Trying to figure out why iTunes is saying they are converted when they aren't. Thanks all.
I agree this is likely the problem. You may have to revisit your iTunes software and check your settings. The default setting is NOT MP3.