Try a Google search for the app ‘Audiowagon’. It’s designed for Android Auto and woks with the newer Volvos allowing you to use a USB in the car (albeit within certain parameters). It’s free to download and his webpage gives all the instructions. Good luck!
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All those voice controls mentioned are available under sensus… wonder what extras are available… i cant open my sun roof for example via voice 
You can ask Google to tell you a joke, what more could you want?? You can’t send directions from the app to the car anymore though😒
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Will have to try that one! We can turn on the heated seats, play Radio 1 etc.
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Some good progress thanks to @Bozz88
The AudioWagon app is ideal. I got it working with a small USB. The ‘limitation’ is that it needs the USB formatted as FAT32. I can do the smaller drive, but a larger one doesn’t show that as a format option. More digging needed!
Both Tidal and Radio Paradise are now working as expected 
Edit: Had to download a third-party tool, but my drive is now formatted, and files are being copied over.
Interestingly, AudioWagon doesn’t seem to have a limit on number of files (well, the FAQ suggests a theoretical limit of 160k).
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Glad that worked for you. It has some irritations when you start the car up, as he explains on the website, but you get used to it!
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FAT32 max partition size is 2TB.
Edit: oops, just saw your edit - ignore this
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Like what? Ideally I’d just want it to carry on playing where it left off. I pretty much leave it on random over all tracks.
You just have to click through a bogus Volvo error message and be sure you’ve followed his instructions about setting indexing. If you overlook the latter it takes a while. Also, you probably won’t remove the USB, but if you don’t actually eject it, it corrupts. I think that’s all😀
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Thank you for some guidance, have been looking for a solution in my C40 for weeks - Volvo forums not much use and the manual just tells me no, not happening.
Having ripped ca 100 CDs to a portable SSD I’m hoping my time wasnt wasted. Off to seek out Audiowagon
Audio Wagon has worked very well for me over recent weeks. There are a couple of pop-ups to click through on starting nut I think there’s a way to get rid of those (if I can be bothered).
Many thanks for the heads up - i bought a 1TB Sandisk SSD to use in both my Volvo C40 and with the ND5XS2.
Of course i formatted exFAT thinking that would be fine for both systems. Now reformatting the SSD with third party app into FAT32, to suit Volvo’s archaic design philosophy.
I was just popping back to mention the need to format it as FAT32
Yes, reformatted to FAT32 (using EaseUS utility).
Transferred about a dozen albums across 7 artists onto the drive and tried in the Volvo - a variety of messages from Drive not recognised, allow access to drive, then not able to read. A minute later an egg timer appeared suggesting it was reading the contents, but nothing apparent after 10 minutes.
Perhaps i need to alter the file structure to better suit the Volvo - currently set as per WMP default burning, so
Artist
Album
Tracks
Would it be easier using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, just a thought, I had similar issues, admitted defeat in the end, life’s too short.
You could well be right there.
I use spotify in the the car anyway, so could argue the SSD is some what surplus
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Try going into the settings in Audio Wagon and do a manual scan.
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My structure is the same so that shouldn’t be the problem. What file type are you using? Have a look at the online Audi Wagon documentation to see if there’s a restriction on file type. FLAC works fine for me.
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Think i found my issue in the AudioWagon online notes…
- SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is not supported, because it behaves differently than most regular USB flash drives
I bought one of these…
1TB with both USB A&C connections (car has C, computer needs A). It was almost £100 but it has plenty of capacity and is tiny in size.
SanDisk 1TB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB Type-C Flash Drive all-metal with reversible USB Type-C and USB Type-A connectors, for smartphones, tablets, Macs and computers.