When transferring a downloaded FLAC album to my Uniti Core, I have always done it by copying the album folder to the Core’s downloads folder via my PC (Win 10).
So today I thought I would copy my latest album to the Core by a USB stick plugged into the Core’s front USB socket. I went into the Manage Music setting in the Naim app & to the Import Music setting. I then clicked the Continue setting to search for attached drives. The search began (with a spinning circle shown) & just continued spinning for several attempts, the longest of which was 15 minutes. The drive was never recognised &, after several attempts, & I then gave up.
I tried again using a different USB stick & got the same result, nothing.
No major problem as I then transferred the album via my PC in my usual way. However, I am curious as to why the attempted USB transfers failed.
Does anyone have any ideas they would care to offer?
I’ve copied a few albums (flac) recently via USB stick to front USB, as you say go to app, manage music, and import music. The core see’s the usb straight away, click and away it’s goes, no issues whatsoever. Could there be an issue with the USB stick ?
As I said I tried another brand USB stick with the same results.
A while back I did transfer 30 or so CDs from a USB stick with no problem at all. I seem to recall this drive was actually plugged into the rear socket of my Nova at the time. I did try with the USB stick plugged into the Nova but, again, it was not recognised.
It doesn’t matter where the file came from. Or even whether there is one. The OP’s Core is not recognising the USB sticks. It should see the USB stick regardless of what files are on it.