Good thread for me. I feel like I am in everything hell right now. Was on a 10 day road trip and on day 6 had to make a beeline from southern Utah (absolutely beautiful) back to CA cuz my wife caught Covid, 12 hour drive on Sunday, and of course me being in a car with her I woke up at 3:00 am this morning with the same but less symptoms than her. She is very sick and tested positive, I feel crappy but tested negative, maybe tomorrow I'll test positive?
Anyway, I am still having issues with the 5.1 Chinese decoder in car. First one played my formatted USB drives but no info on face and when I get out of car, and came back in it started on track 1 instead of the track I last listened to. Drove me crazy.
Now I bought a new Chinese one with better remote and screen, but for the life of me I cannot get it to play any version/format of MCH,
stereo yes, and decodes to 5.1, actually doesn't sound to bad but I know it is not the real thing. I even reformatted the FAT32 thumb drive to MBR, but no luck. I am giving up on the stuff from China direct, they are small and fit in glove box but that is it. Good news they are very cheap and the two that I will throw away now only cost about $325.00 both together.
This morning I must have looked at 50 5.1 A/V receiver's with USB slot in front, but all the directions say USB playback in all the formats, FLAC, DSD, etc only play back in two channel, so this thread verifies that.
Now I will start looking at small Blu Ray players with USB front slot. Hopefully I can find a small dimension one?
This Panasonic I have at home is good and I play via HDMI out. I think what I need for car which the Panasonic has is 6 channel RCA out, I have to look into that.
As always, I am open to suggestions.
