I have the following headunit:

Pioneer Premier DEH-P690UB
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...H-P690UB?tab=A

I have a laptop hdd hooked up to the USB port, which works great. I had read somewhere that the unit supported M3U playlists. I can't seem to get this to work though. I created the playlist with winamp and I can't get it to play. The unit recognizes the files as playlist files, but it can't play them.

I've tried modifying the playlist files in several ways to no avail:
- relative and absolute paths
- removed all the '#' comments in the file
- saved the file as different file formats (PC vs UNIX, etc)

Has anyone gotten playlists to work? I'm not sure what else to try, the files are simply text files, nothing too special. Is it possible that I might have to update the firmware on my unit? I'm not even sure if that is possible.

 

I have the Pioneer 6900UB with a 120GB external hard drive in my glove compartment with all my music on it. I had to format the hard drive to FAT32 before it would play my music and also had to put the shorter cable that came with the hard drive before it would power it. I don't have a playlist though. I just put all my CDs on the hard drive and I just search for the song I want to hear. You should be able to put the songs you want in a folder and the head unit should be able to detect that.

 

i had the same issue with the usb wire. i tried using a longer wire and it caused the voltage to drop enough so that it tried to pull more current than the unit could supply (causing the hdd to not spin up and run).

if you happen to try using a playlist let me know. i'd really like to get it to work.

 

I don't see why you couldn't just put the songs you want on a playlist into a folder. I know my head unit detects folders.

 

it does... i just want to keep my music organized by artist -> album. but in addition i want to be able to create playlists.

currently i usually listen to an entire "cd" at time as thats how its organized on my hdd. i want to have arbitrary playlists as well without having to duplicate music files on my hdd.

 

anyone else got this headunit?

 

y dont you contact pioneer directly?

 

is there a limit to how many gigs it can read from? basically, what is the max hd size this supports?

 

It can support has many gigs as you want to throw at it. The head unit doesn't care. It just looks for certain files (mp3,etc.).

 

i dont think the player has a limit to the size of the hdd you can attach. however, if you want to connect a hdd w/o a seperate power connection (power it off the usb), you may not be able to use huge hdds if they require more power than the usb wire will provide (.5 mA if i remember correctly). i think my 80 gig hdd pulls the exact limit that usb will provide.