Can i attach my external hard drive to my front usb port in my car stereo?
It really depends on the specific head unit and hard drive. Some head units may have limitations on the drive size and the specific drive format file system. I’d recommend checking the documentation with your receiver and see exactly what devices are supported. Or, Hey! Just plug it in and see. It won’t hurt anything. And the worst is that you’ll see the message “NO DEVICE” (or something similar) when you switch the source to USB It’s usually best to organize music files into folders. Depending on exactly how you have organized the music files, a specific head unit may be able to recognize some files and not others. For example, with Alpine some models (CDE-102, CDE-103BT, etc), the maximum nested folder depth is 8 (including the root directory). So a 9th nested folder would not be recognized. Also, the “random” function on head units can work differently. On some, you can set it to random within a specific folder or across all folders. On other head units, it may work either one way o
