That's incorrect, I have a 4 gig thumb drive and the player has no problem with it. I've heard the player will take flash drives up to 64 gig, but it would move between files more slowly with that large a drive. With all the playing time available on a four gig drive at the current bit rate and sampling rate used by NLS however, I don't think you need any more than 8 gig. Fore example, on my four gig drive I have the entire king James bible old and new testament, four other large books, and four albums in my audio+podcasts file one of witch is a double album.With all that, there is still 540 meg free space on the drive. Take care, Joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org