daf999999

My searching is yielding conflicting answers. For a 2018 S6 with B&O

1. Will the MMI play FLAC file on an SD Card?
2. Will the MMI play FLAC files on a USB stick?
3. Will the MMI play ALAC files on an SD Card?
4. Will the MMI play ALAC files on a USB stick?

Thanks

acruxksa

I do not have a B&O S6. I've got the Bose S6 (2016). However, I did have a 2017 B&O A4 that had no problems playing FLAC files via USB or SDCard. However, I did have SDCard corruption issues after about 12 months, hence the switch to 128GB USB. I took that USB micro thumb drive out of my A4 and put it in my 2016 S6 and the Bose MMI plays it no problem.

Also of note, but may or may not be pertinent. I had to truncate the naming/directory structure to originally get the FLAC files to work on our 2016 Volvo XC90 w/Bowers and Wilkens sound system. I bring this up, because I have been using the truncated naming/directory structure in both Audi's. May or may not be pertinent, but it works.

Also, it's easy to transcode your music from ALAC to FLAC (and vice versa)...... and maintain the lossless quality. Plenty of conversion options out there.

Lastly, I believe my usb and sdcard (when I used that) were both formatted exFAT or possibley FAT32 for the smaller drive. If it's a large issue, I can pull the USB key and check (have about a dozen more albums to add to it anyway).

In the end, I'm betting FLAC works, you just need filenames that are less than x number of characters long and they can't be buried several files deep in a directory (forget the exact length, but the total including files and name had to be less than 30 or 40 characters). Plus FAT32 or exFAT (not NTFS) might also help.

***just checked*** 128GB USB 3.0 thumb drive formatted FAT32 Played newly transferred .flac files w/ files names and directory names that exceeded 50+ char. (Bose S6 though......) If the B&O doesn't work out of the box, I'd try the stuff listed above.

daf999999

Thanks very much for the info - I will load up my Fat32 128GB USB stick with a bunch of FLAC tunes and hope for the best!!

daf999999

Just to update - the sandisk 128GB SD card loaded with FLAC worked perfectly. thanks

acruxksa

glad it worked for you.

SandmanGoBlue

Just got 2019 A4 with 15 B&O speakers and amp. Am deciding between CD, Alac or Flac for a newly remastered Dead album and live show. Was thinking CD and then save on Mac as Apple lossless to listen and use CDs for car but the FLAC in USB would probably sound amazing but I have never saved to USB and not clear on how to organize files to play in car. Any directions would be much appreciated.

jfscheck

What resolution FLAC files work, 192 24 bit or 96 24 bit, etc.

Thanks in advance

Go123

All of these will work fine, it just down samples as needed to 48khz. No problem for 24 bit and can handle 5.1 channel files discreetly.

amchuu

Wouldn't it be easier just to get Tidal HiFi and stream lossless quality instead? Storing songs on a drive is so old school.

AaronKamp

I store songs, and I'm old school. It solves the problem of being out of a coverage area or, for those of us who venture near international borders, helps with slowdowns when pinging off of a foreign tower. At least in mine, the audio quality when connected over bluetooth isn't as good as songs stored on SD. That's with a Samsung S21 Ultra and same files stored on phone and in car, so YMMV.