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I know this seems very basic to most people but ive largely shunned technology, or change in general. I still buy cds. I dont know shit about mp3s or bluetooth or any of that. Problem is my new truck doesnt have a cd player and i want to listen to my shit instead of satellite radio. So right now im going through the tedious proccess of ripping all of my cds onto an external hard drive. After i do that, if i can copy it all onto a thumb drive, can i just plug that fucker into my dash and my shit will show up on my "infotainment screen" or do i need to put it all onto a micro sd card, put that in my phone, and hook my phone up to the truck?

I know this seems very basic to most people but ive largely shunned technology, or change in general. I still buy cds. I dont know shit about mp3s or bluetooth or any of that. Problem is my new truck doesnt have a cd player and i want to listen to my shit instead of satellite radio. So right now im going through the tedious proccess of ripping all of my cds onto an external hard drive. After i do that, if i can copy it all onto a thumb drive, can i just plug that fucker into my dash and my shit will show up on my "infotainment screen" or do i need to put it all onto a micro sd card, put that in my phone, and hook my phone up to the truck?

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That's interesting that the OEM unit plays FLAC. That must be something recent, my 2018 will only play MP3. I'm sure it plays apple shit too, but who cares about that.

I don't really count replacement units, cars are getting to the point where you can't replace the OEM head.

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The Mazda owners manual doesn't mention it, but it's there. It's actually sent me down a rabbit hole on how to format a 256gb thumbdrive in FAT32, technically possible under FAT32 specifications, but windows hasn't allowed it, moving on to try it with Linux next.

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This utility for Windows is one I keep in my toolbox:

http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

It's called fat32format, and it does just that - formats anything to FAT32. I seem to remember FAT32 giving out about 200GB, so ymmv.