I have an attached USB 500gb disk on a Humax Foxsat HDR.

I can copy video from the main HDD to the USB HDD and copy music/photos from the USB HDD to tha main HDD but I cannot play/view the music/photos from the USB HD.

When I try I can display the music folders but when I click on one it does not show the tracks and will not play.

The files are in a FAT32 partition on the USB HDD.

Is this normal or am I missing a trick?

When on the usb drive the colour keys switch the file type that is displayed exactly like looking at the internal hdd.

Red - Video Yellow - Music Blue - Photo

I went to Media, selected USB and it displays the folders in the music section. If I select a particular folder there appears to to be nothing in it. If I then press yellow for music it just reverts back to the music files on the main hard disk.

I know the files are there because I have located them and copied them to the hard disk and played them from there - it's just that I can't play them from the USB.

Insert USB, press media, press Yellow, press yellow again, select usb device, OK to open, move to Music folder and OK to open. Press play.

Are they mp3's - they need to be.
Pictures need to be jpg's and the HDR is fussy about some. I needed to put some through an editor and save (no changes) some to get the HDR to display them.

Thanks for that - it works OK now.

I wondered why it would need two presses of the yellow but I see that when I do that the change device button also changes from red to yellow.

Pity they didn't get you to write the user manual!