While Windows will not easily let you format a 64GB SDXC card in any other format than exFAT, it will absolutely read and write 64GB SDXC cards formatted in FAT32, and use them properly. It’s a licensing imperative, not a physical imperative. Posted in Ask Hackaday Tagged mp3 player, sd, sd card, sdhc, SDXC Post navigationĪs someone who has written code to initialize SD devices and parse the FAT, I can tell you that SDXC does not physically require you to use exFAT. SD card image: Andreas Frank ( CC BY 2.5). If you think you’ve heard ’s name before, it might be for his expertise in resin casting automotive parts. Why can a player designed for the original SD card standard read the much newer cards when other contemporary ones can not? would love to know, and now our curiosity has been whetted, so would we. Hackaday’s readership constantly amaze us with the sheer breadth of their knowledge and expertise, so we are sure that among you reading this piece will be experts on SD card standards who can shed some light on this mystery. Many other devices from the 2Gb SD era, made before SDHC and SDXC existed, cannot read the modern cards, yet ’s GPX can. In the years since then there have been a couple of revisions to the standard, SDHC, and SDXC, which have given us the huge cards we are used to today. The GPX player is designed to only read these original 2Gb cards. This might not seem like a big deal at a cursory glance, but it’s worth considering a little SD card history.īack when the GPX was made, the maximum capacity of an SD card was 2Gb, a figure that must have seemed huge when the standard was created, but by the middle of the last decade was starting to look a little cramped. Not only does it still work, it packs an unexpected bonus, it reads 64Gb SD cards when they are formatted as FAT32. Jokes about slightly outdated consumer electronics aside, ’s player, a GPX MW3836, turned out to be a really good buy. Ask your parents about them, they were what hipsters used before they had cassette tapes: portable music players that everyone thought were really cool back then, onto which music didn’t come from the Internet but had to be manually loaded from a computer. , wrote to us to say that in 2004 he bought an MP3 player. Cast your mind back, was winning the Tour de France, and SpaceShipOne made it into space. What were you doing in 2004? Can you even remember 2004? Maybe it’s like the old joke about the 1960s, if you can remember it, you weren’t really there, man.
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