I can't seem to find much on this issue from searching, so I figured I'd bring it up here...

My 2016 Forester (base Starlink radio/infotainment system; no nav) starts acting up when attempting to read media off USB at temperatures approaching and below -10 C. It will lag or freeze up entirely at the "Reading" dialog, and if it does eventually manage to load the media, it will only show a small subset of the folders that are on it.

It will lose its place and fail to resume playing where it left off (especially if the folder it was playing is one of the ones that fails to load). Sometimes it will start playing the first folder on the stick when this happens while the loading dialog window is running, and that dialog will persist for minutes, getting through a song or two, and then when it does finally "finish" loading, the first folder isn't in the range of folders that successfully load so it will stop playing that and skip ahead to the first track on the first one that does load successfully.

On top of that, even when it can load and play the media, it will often have audio artifacts while it's cold, and will skip through tracks without reaching the ends of them.

I thought it might be an issue with the media, but more than one USB stick has been affected. Is this a known problem with this generation of head unit? Does anyone else experience it? And is there anything that can be done to remedy it or am I just condemned to not using USB audio during cold snaps?