I am having trouble formatting and playing a thumb drive on my Denon.
I formatted the drive in Fat 32, exported a couple of playlists from ITunes, when I try to play the drive the message sis “no data”
Any ideas?
I don't know if you read the manual for this, but here it is-
http://manuals.denon.com/AVRX4100W/EU/EN/GFNFSYrovixdpl.php
AAC isn't shown, so if your music is in that format, you'll need to change it.
I installed a Marantz AVR in a boat for a customer and he has a ReQuest music server at home, with a lot of music on it. The files for listening onsite are .wax, but it also stores MP3 files for streaming through their ddns server. ReQuest used a network drive at the time and their system is proprietary, so the .wav files are harder to copy but I found that I can copy the MP3 files from the hard drive easily. I did that and copied them to two SanDisk 64GB thunb drives and the first two, as well as the ones I had for testing it, worked fine. The third wouldn't format in FAT32, only ExFAT32. I'll find out if this is the problem- I couldn't play the tracks on my Yamaha MusicCast or his Denon AVR, either.
I don't have the first two thumb drives here (the boat is a three hour drive from here) but if they formatted in FAT32, I suspect the third was mis-packed because, from what I read, FAT32 is used up to and including 32GB drives, ExFAT32 is used for larger drives but according to Denon/Marantz tech support, they should be compatible.
As far as folders, look for anything that isn't a music file. The ReQuest automatically places all music in a folder for each artist, regardless of the number of songs which made it easy to copy/paste in this case. If your computer's hard drive is large enough and you have the time to do it, you can create folders in a master folder on your desktop and manage the music as you want- the Denon and Marantz AVRs can separate the music by genre, artist, song, etc so you can use that if you want.