Honda CR-V: Audio System Basic Operation / Playing a USB Flash Drive

Honda CR-V 2017-2025 Owner's Manual / Features / Audio System Basic Operation / Playing a USB Flash Drive

Your audio system reads and plays sound files on a USB flash drive in either MP3, WMA, or AAC *1 format.

Connect your USB flash drive to the USB port, then select the USB mode.

Honda CR-V. Playing a USB Flash Drive

*1:Only AAC format files recorded with iTunes are playable on this unit.

*2:Some or all of the lists may not be displayed.

Playing Pandora®*

Your audio system allows you to listen to music from the Pandora® app on a compatible smartphone. This function is available when the phone is paired and connected to the vehicle’s Bluetooth® HandsFreeLink® (HFL) system, or with an iPhone, you can connect using your USB cable to the USB port...

How to Select a File from the Music Search List

Select MENU and select Music Search. Select a folder. Select a track. Use the recommended USB flash drives. WMA files protected by digital rights management (DRM) cannot be played...

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Honda CR-V 2017-2025 Owner's Manual: Music Search Commands

The system accepts these commands on the Music Search screen. Using Song By Voice Song By Voice™ is a feature that allows you to select music from your iPod or USB device using Voice Commands. To activate this mode, you must press the (Talk) button and say: “Music search”...

Honda CR-V 2017-2025 Owner's Manual: Using the Remote Transmitter

Press the power tailgate button for more than one second to operate when the power mode is in VEHICLE OFF (LOCK). Some exterior lights flash and the beeper sounds. If you press the button again while the power tailgate is moving, it will stop...