PS3, USB drive and FAT32 questions

Jaap74

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Hi,

I want to copy all my music and video to a USB powered 500GB drive and plug into my PS3. I have read that it has to be FAT32 formatted but the limit for a FAT32 partition is 32GB.

Is this info correct and if so, is there any way around this problem ?

Cheers
 
32GB is the maximum file size the Windows format utility can do. Third party utilities go much higher, though I can't recall the exact limit, if there even is one.

Almost all external or portable hard drives come FAT32 formatted. I have several 250GB and 500GB FAT32 USB drives.
 
I am at work and the firewall won't let me view that page, I'll take a look when I get home.

Thanks
 
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As said you need 3rd party software to make a 500GB FAT32 partition.

The big disadvantage with FAT32 is that you can't have a file >2GB or 4GB so if you have a big videofile it will not work.
 
i used Swiss Knife for my PS3 external HDD. Works fine, just wish they'd adopt NTFS (or something else which allows you to use files >4GB - royal PITA)
 
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i used Swiss Knife for my PS3 external HDD. Works fine, just wish they'd adopt NTFS (or something else which allows you to use files >4GB - royal PITA)
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Yeah, I had a few 8GB files that in the end I had to transfer using my internal network instead, I think it took an hour so still not too bad.
 
Well I bought a 500GB WD drive today, have copied my music onto it, over 35,000 tracks.

And all I can say is : PATHETIC !

This is meant to be my new media hub ?? Righto. Navigating all my music is a joke, the file structure you have to use is ridiculous and loads of songs aren't even recognised.

Surely SONY must be working on a solution to this ?
 
I'd wager that it isnt the PS3, but the ID3 tagging of your music collection.

That said, you can broswe it by folder, which should be what you need.

Personally think its great (with a sorted ID3 collection, or view as folder)
 
Jaap74 said:
This is meant to be my new media hub ?? Righto. Navigating all my music is a joke, the file structure you have to use is ridiculous and loads of songs aren't even recognised.
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I've got just over 5k songs on my external harddrive and my PS3 deals with them perfectly. I simply browse my harddrive and it displays it in the same folder structure i set out on my PC.

Are some of your songs encoded in FLAC? If so the PS3 doesn't support those.
 
Connect the drive to your pc and setup the file structure there, you can make subfolders the way you want it unlike on the PS3
 
Hi,

All files are either MP3 or WMA, and I have the "play WMA" option turned on.

The file structure I have on the drive is :

MUSIC / ARTIST / ALBUM

Is that wrong ?

From some Googling earlier it seems many people have the same issues as me ?
 
easiest way is to navigate to the USB HDD under music opton, then press triangle, and select display all. This views it as it would on a PC. Navigate to your music folder, and away you go :?
 
Pug said:
easiest way is to navigate to the USB HDD under music opton, then press triangle, and select display all. This views it as it would on a PC. Navigate to your music folder, and away you go :?
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DISPLAY ALL !!! Perfect.... thanks...... I take it all back !!

Is there an easier way to navigate through all the folders though ?

Can I set it up :

MUSIC/ROCK/BAND NAME/ALBUM
MUSIC/PUNK/BAND NAME/ALBUM
MUSIC/DANCE/BAND NAME/ALBUM etc etc etc

I had it on my PC like that under WMP11 bt the PS3 had troubles finding the music. I googled and apparently there were too many subfolders ?? Is that true ?

Cheers
 
If you use the triangle -> display all approach iirc you can have the file structure however you like regardless of how many subfolders you use.
 
Jaap74 said:
DISPLAY ALL !!! Perfect.... thanks...... I take it all back !!

Is there an easier way to navigate through all the folders though ?

Can I set it up :

MUSIC/ROCK/BAND NAME/ALBUM
MUSIC/PUNK/BAND NAME/ALBUM
MUSIC/DANCE/BAND NAME/ALBUM etc etc etc

I had it on my PC like that under WMP11 bt the PS3 had troubles finding the music. I googled and apparently there were too many subfolders ?? Is that true ?

Cheers
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I have a large amount of music on a drive I browse.

It is stored more simply though, as:

Music/artist-albumname

Do you need the folder with the genre? I put genres into ID3 tags (I can't recall whether PS3 can sort by Genre tag off the top of my head).


rp2000
 
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