Turn any USB drive into a media player in 30 seconds Ford SYNC 3 & 4 Audio

Hey Tony! You saved my bacon!!!!😁👍

Zune was the first competition apple really had

That looks great! But I got one question, if I started using apple car play, will I be able to listen to media from the usb at the same time?

hey Tony! how it going, I like your information because it too specific to solve the problem, thanks. can you help me please Im try to connect one divice Z6 Pro 48GB HiFi MP3 Music Player with Bluetooth with sync 3 ford f150 2016.

Hi Tony, my name is Antonio, I live in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, I just subscribed to your channel, well I don't know if you know anything else here in Brazil, everything is very difficult so I turn to you, I saw the audio video to play in sync 3 but I don't know where to get a cool playlist to put on the USB, and I would also like to put music videos, please could you guide me, thank you in advance, a big hug.

You the MAN

Curious for input. This worked great for kusic, but video just comes out as audio? Any tip or ideas?.

Amazon music works will too....

And video works too???

Do I have this correct? just load up a USB thumb drive with music, format it correctly, plug it in and it will play AND it will download into the system ?

hmm, I checked that my flashdrive is formatted to exFAT but my 2016 mustang with sync3 is not registering it

I'm using a 128gb thumb drive, of which about 86gb is being used. When playing music in my Mach-E, it will randomly skip some songs in both playlists and if playing an album. It does this on every thumb drive I've tried, all formatted to exFAT. If I arrow back, it will play the song just fine. I've analyzed the playlists in Notepad and checked the files of songs that are skipped. Everything is fine there. Any ideas what is causing this to happen?

Question, what if you would get a usb to hdmi converter and get a apple usb converter to plug in into your phone, will you be able to do mirror mode ? Would that be possible ?

The new 2022 F-350 works with the usb and my iPod nano. Plug it in hit the little face on the steering wheel and say USB

Wonderful informative video. Can you tell me if it will play M3U playlist files off the flash drive using voice command? I have a 2012 Ford Edge Limited and I can voice command songs, artists, playlists or albums. Looking for a replacement vehicle for my 2000 Alero but am spoiled by the flash drive functionality offered by Ford (but seemingly no one else). Any additional info would be GREATLY appreciated! Also interested in the Alexa functionality if you know anything about that. Thanks in advance.

How do you get it to play video on screen?

When I had the Ford Focus 3 in the manual the audio/sync section it is mention to format the USB stick as EXFAT. What it did not say is how to use playlist. I found on the internet how to do that with Playlist Creator 3.6.2 and the correct settings. It also works in my Ford Mondeo MK5 with sync 3.4.

Thank you, my 2022 Ecosport would not recognise my own playlists. Formatted the drive as you said, reloaded my own playlist (stored in a folder under the playlist names). Put it in the car, go to the bottom of the menu and search, there they all are under their playlist names. Cheers.

Just got a brand new car and couldn't believe it wouldn't play any of the mp3 thanks for the heads up!

I have a 2017 Explorer with Sync 3, which I formatted as you described. Put the USB drive into the USB port, but the display says the USB device is not compatible. Any ideas?

I've been using a thumb drive since I bought my car. It's formatted as NTFS, works fine. Video files don't work though, only audio.

Thank you for the very helpful video. The reformating on a Mac (of course) is just a little more complicated. More steps! Fun how Ford will only read XFAT while my Honda will read anything you plug into it! Thanks again.

They didn't share it with you when you called them because that particular person (like many) was one of those "essential worker" types who never exerts an ounce of effort to learn anything helpful to customers, unlike the millions of truly essential patriots that made America great.

I have iTunes. Will this work under exFAT to allow me to download the songs from iTunes on my computer to play in my car?

On my 2020 Bullitt, all songs from all albums are played in alphabetical order which is ... moronic.

Can the songs be displayed as folder albums. I had a quick play around with it and all my songs came up as one folder(650 songs). I'd like to be able to have it organised in albums. Is this possible??

Funny...the first thing I got rid of was the stock stereo. Great video!

Hey thanks from across the pond! I'm considering a mustang preferably a mach 1 and this is great to know otherwise I'd be really pissed!
It really does amaze me thought (I'm a bit older than you) how everytime technology advances we seem to also take a step backwards in the simplicity of something, also we seem to lose our freedom of choice, such as ford pushes a over the air update and screws our preferences without even asking the customer who splashed their cash on the car, and ford no longer owns it so how dare they just remove what we like. All companies seem to be doing this now messing with my shit with permission!
OK Rant over and counting to 100.
Thanks for the video.

The main advantage of using Mach 1 is that you don't need a radio ;-)

Ford could definitely go by the saying “if something isn’t broke don’t try to fix it” more often. Awesome vid!

Cool technology 😎

Great tip. Thanks