Compressing Music Files For Thumb Drive In Car

Get dbPowerAmp and compress your files to 320K Variable Bit Rate. This will give you *excellent* sound quality for on the road listening.

And if the 32 GB limit mentioned is true, simply partition your 128 GB flash drive into 4 32 GB "drives" as long as the Jeep's audio player will recognize the 4 virtual drives.

If it won't, then just buy a 32GB flash drive and load your files onto that. I bet a 32GB flash drive costs about $8.00 nowadays...

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I'm using 32GB USB drive in my Honda Accord. Music is in 256K VBR AAC format and sounds great. The only problem is that Accord does not show directory structure. No matter how many directories I create (Jazz, Pop, Classical) it places all records in one directory in the order they were entered. The only control I have is to advance to next song or record (pretty bad). Because of it I use mostly "random" playback.

I already have DBpoweramp...thank you all for the great advice....

Do I need to rip the CDs again through DBpoweramp? I can'f just copy them from my existing library and burn the copy at 320k?

Yes, you can copy from the existing files. Within dBpoweramp there is a Batch Converter. You select the albums you want to convert, select the format you want them in, and select the destination drive and dynamic naming. And that's it.