Chevrolet 2012 Equinox Owner's Manual page 191

Playing from a USB (Radio
with CD and Touchscreen)
A USB mass storage device or
Microsoft Transfer Protocal (MTP)
device can be connected to the
USB port.
The USB port is in the center
console.
The USB icon displays when the
USB device is connected.
USB MP3 Player and USB Drives
The USB MP3 players and USB
drives connected must comply
with the USB Mass Storage
Class specification (USB MSC).
Only USB MP3 players and USB
drives with a sector size or
512 bytes and a cluster size
smaller or equal to 32 kbytes in
the FAT32 file system are
supported.
Hard disk drives are not
supported.
The following restrictions apply
for the data stored on a USB
MP3 player or USB device:
Maximum folder structure
depth: 11 levels.
Maximum number of MP3/
WMA files that can be
displayed: 1,000
WMA with Digital Rights
Management (DRM) from online
music shops cannot be played.
WMA files can only be played
back safely if they were created
with Windows Media Player
version 8 or later.
Applicable playlist extensions
are: .m3u, .pls.
Playlist entries must be in the
form of relative paths.
The system attribute for
folders/files that contain audio
data must not be set.
I n f o r ma t i o n P r o v i d e d b y :
Infotainment System
To play a USB device, do one of the
following:
Connect the USB and it begins
to play.
Press the Now Playing screen
button on the Home Page, then
press the SOURCE button on
the faceplate repeatedly to cycle
through all of the available audio
source screens, until the USB
source screen is selected.
While the USB source is active, use
the following to operate USB
function:
(Play/Pause): Press to start,
pause, or resume play of the current
media source.
SEEK (Seek Down):
1. Press to seek to the beginning of
the current or previous track.
If the track has been playing for
less than five seconds, the
previous track plays. If playing
longer than five seconds, the
current track restarts.
7-31