DrAndyPerry
Established Member
Well that was annoying.
After trying loads of different USB sticks with different formatting in the right hand side USB port on my facelift MG5 Trophy and none of them working, I decided to actually read the manual.
The manual reports that the right hand side is for USB power only. The left hand one being for Android auto (+ACP) as well as for USB sticks with music on. That's a pretty crap design decision, in my opinion as with faffing you can't have USB music as well as android auto at the same time and without plugging and unplugging one of the least friendly positioned USB ports there are! I tried a USB splitter cable with no joy (it was a super cheap one so I suspect it just had power to one end.
So, I had a brain wave, a USB hub. I ordered a cheapo one from Amazon, only about £5.... and it works!!! Android Auto AND USB music at the same time!
There seem to be a few limitations with the USB music playback though. Although it indexed all 10,000 songs on my stick, it seems to only playback the first 1000... in song name order, so I've only got from A to Be!
I've stuck it with some sticky patches out of the way. I'll see if it holds.
Anyway, I thought I'd report my experience incase some of you are dislocating your wrist removing and plugging in USB sticks and want a solution.
AJP
After trying loads of different USB sticks with different formatting in the right hand side USB port on my facelift MG5 Trophy and none of them working, I decided to actually read the manual.
The manual reports that the right hand side is for USB power only. The left hand one being for Android auto (+ACP) as well as for USB sticks with music on. That's a pretty crap design decision, in my opinion as with faffing you can't have USB music as well as android auto at the same time and without plugging and unplugging one of the least friendly positioned USB ports there are! I tried a USB splitter cable with no joy (it was a super cheap one so I suspect it just had power to one end.
So, I had a brain wave, a USB hub. I ordered a cheapo one from Amazon, only about £5.... and it works!!! Android Auto AND USB music at the same time!
There seem to be a few limitations with the USB music playback though. Although it indexed all 10,000 songs on my stick, it seems to only playback the first 1000... in song name order, so I've only got from A to Be!
I've stuck it with some sticky patches out of the way. I'll see if it holds.
Anyway, I thought I'd report my experience incase some of you are dislocating your wrist removing and plugging in USB sticks and want a solution.
AJP