I'd think it very unlikely you'll find anything that supports anything other than FAT32 personally although I'd love to be proved wrong!

You're not going to have any music files bigger than 4GB, you don't really need the extra speed or features offered by more modern filesystems and there are plenty of scripts and apps out there than will simplify the process of making your filenames FAT32 friendly so I'd go for whatever can play the most file formats (I'd be after wavpack support personally although again I think you'd be lucky unless its basically an embedded Linux device you can ssh into) and offers the best sound quality for the money.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Federico Bruni <fedelogy@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose the files I want to listen to.

I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than FAT32.

FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a FAT32 filesystem.

Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!

Federico
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