BUILT: Digital Factory Infotainment Integration Honda Civic Bose / Acura Integra ELS

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* "Can I Plug N Play music directly from a USB drive? What is the best way to integrate music directly via USB drive?"

THIS is the #1 most important thing I want to learn how to do. Play my awesome music that I OWN in my awesome car that I OWN! It should be a no brainer, but of course "They" make this damn near impossible to accomplish.
EDIT: We know exactly why "They" make this so difficult.
Ask Kl&us $chwab: "You will own nothing, and you will be happy."

Also,

* "What types of Digital Audio Players (DAP) are recommended for use with this PURE Integrator?"

And,

* "What are the recommended Audio Formats for my music files in order to get the best quality sound from my USB drive or Digital Audio Player (DAP) in my car?"


Personal note:
I want to buy a dedicated mid/high end DAP with SD Card or MicroSD Card slot for my music. I never have, and NEVER WILL pay for a subscription music service scam like SiriusXM or Spotify. (Stop harassing me, SiriusXM.)

Right now I have MP3s and .WAV files on a MicroSD Card that I play via an old Samsung Android phone. I removed the SIM card from the old phone and use it strictly as a BlueTooth audio player.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, that I installed and use the free Hiby music player app for Android in this old Samsung phone. It seems to work pretty well for a free app.

However, recently, the phone occasionally locks up while playing files, and I have to pause, rewind, and skip ahead to the next track, etc. in order to keep listening to my music files. I do not know whether the culprit is:

* The Phone,
* The MicroSD Card, or
* The File Formats, MP3 and .WAV.

Either way, that phone is pretty old, and not really a dedicated audio player anyway.

On a side note, I am looking into switching from Windows to Linux. While I really like .WAV files for their relatively good quality, I'm not sure that is a file type that will be usable via any audio or music programs in Linux. I'm totally clueless in this department. Just haven't done any research yet regarding Linux audio programs.

Ok, responding to your questions in order they were asked....

1) Your FL5 already has a built-in USB drive file reader application, using the Type-A usb port above the phone charger pad. Your car's infotainment user manual details how to use it, but it doesn't mention the most important thing: your drive MUST be formatted in FAT32 or it will not read. And all USB drives these days are typically ExFAT formatted so you need to reformat them with a freeware tool (windows can't do this built-in). Once you've done that, load your music files according to whatever directory structure you want to find your music in (ie artist folders, then album folders, for example).

2) WAV and FLAC are the best file formats since they are not lossy. MP3 is lossy, so avoid it since storage size is no longer an economic limitation these days.

3) Best way to use a DAP is to use a secondary input on your DSP that you switch to. You can still fool the car's infotainment system into using its volume control for the DAP by letting it "play" something, anything. Even FM radio. Since the DSP will be listening to a different input it'll just ignore that source, but this way the car's volume knob will still be controlling the DAP output via the DSP. I know that's a bit complicated so I'm happy to discuss further, offline, if you like.

4) Linux should play WAV natively if you are using a reputable distribution.