Can I get all my songs and playlist to a Flash dirve to play in the car now the large iPod is no more?

Hello, so I have read a few discussions on transferring songs/playlist to a flash drive. But what I am looking for is can I replace my iPod classic in my car with a flash drive? So I have all my songs and playlist just like the iPod. And how do I do this?
I have a Ford with My Ford Touch, so it can find its own album art, but I do want the playlists. I have the same song in multiply playlist so I don't want to have multiply copies of the same song one the drive.
It seems that most iPods classics are in use in the car these days so there must be some easy way to replace them with they no longer work.

I doubt that "most iPods classics are in use in the car these days." iPod classic uses a delicate hard drive for storage (instead of flash storage) plus it has other sensitive parts like the display and battery, so it is prone to damage from shock, heat, cold, etc. The car environment is not so ideal for iPods (especially the ones with hard drives). It's ideal for a USB flash drive. They are now relatively cheap per GB. They have no moving parts, or screen, or battery, so you can just leave it connected to the USB port most of the time; you don't have to constantly connect and disconnect it, which causes wear for an iPod. Get something like this, and it barely sticks out from the USB port.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/SanDisk/SDCZ33016G/
You should be able to copy song files to a USB flash drive using iTunes, by showing a list of songs in iTunes, selecting songs on the list, and dragging the selection from the iTunes window to a Windows Explorer window that shows the USB flash drive.
Depending on the car audio system, it may recognize folders on the USB flash drive as "playlists." As a test, try putting some folders at the top level of the flash drive, with names to represent playlists. Then, add a few song files to those folder, and try it on the car audio system.

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