Just bought a '10 Lariat with Sony Nav pkg which
includes 40gig harddrive. I've done the math based
on free harddrive space and number of songs it says can
be stored and it comes to about 16 megs per song for 2400 songs,
which equates to about half to a third of the file size it would be
if it pulled it right off the CD as a native uncompressed file, so my
question is:

Does anyone know what bitrate is used for CD's imported to the Jukebox?

Does anyone know if it can be specified in a menu to be "uncompressed"
albiet for fewer songs to be stored?

Thanks



Eric

 

Before you go through the frustation of ripping the CDs to the HDD, I'd recommend you read the issues at Syncmyride.com. You'll quickly find out a USB flash drive permanently connected to USB2 is the easier way to go.

 

You are correct about the 10gig.
Salesman told me 40gig.....&^$#ing carsalesmen!!!

That means the compression is even greater.

I'm gonna try the flash drive route

To be fair, even imported stuff on the harddrive sounds
amazing. I consider myself an audiophile and this is the
first musical car stereo I've owned. I really can't
see how some people say it sounds awful.......

 

Well you all have part of the story correct. The HD is 40GB. However, only 10GB of that space is available for music storage. The original file that you transfer for a CD is basically compressed to an mp3 file. However, you can not insert your favorite CD containing 300 mp3's and rip them to the HD. The CD must contain original CD formatted songs...this was a legal thing. If you have SYNC, you could also plug in your jump drive/ipod/mp3 player/portable hd/etc. This will play over SYNC and the media device must remain in the vehicle.

 

Agreed. Most of us are using USB2 and flash or USB powered HDDs in the console or glove compartment.

 

I have a new Toshiba Qosmio Laptop and Toshiba has a CD Creator and when I burn a CD the name of the artist song and all that is on there and it shows up right when I down load to Jukebox. You can probably buy the CD creator software.

 

Well you all have part of the story correct. The HD is 40GB. However, only 10GB of that space is available for music storage. The original file that you transfer for a CD is basically compressed to an mp3 file.

Just curious, how do you know that? Let's just say I have a bit of an inside edge!!
However, you can not insert your favorite CD containing 300 mp3's and rip them to the HD. The CD must contain original CD formatted songs...this was a legal thing.

Not exactly true. I can make an audio CD (from any source I want) and Sync will rip it to the HDD. However, the artist, song, track, etc. will be left as UNKNOWN. Older factory CDs will be updated with the artist, song, track, etc. Newer factory CDs will not (until the next Gracenote DB update). I didn't say it had to be store bought. You are correct, you can take your favorite mp3's and burn them to a cd in CD format, but they will now be uncompressed and fit about 15 average length songs. You can then insert that CD into your navi unit and rip them to the jukebox which can hold up to 10 GB of music. SYNC has nothing to do with it. You can not transfer music from your portable media device through SYNC into the navi jukebox. I know the SYNC commercials are catchy, but SYNC is completely seperate from the navi system.
If you have SYNC, you could also plug in your jump drive/ipod/mp3 player/portable hd/etc. This will play over SYNC and the media device must remain in the vehicle.

 

I too have tried to change the import settings. I'm assuming the default setting is 128 kbs. Does anyone know for sure?