Hello all,

I just got my Outlander yesterday and noticed when I put a regular CD in the music server automatically ripped the songs onto the music server. However, I used to have an MR2 with an MP3 player in it so I have a data cd of just MP3's that I put in and the system will play them fine, but would not copy them to the HDD. Is there any way to copy MP3's from a data list to the HDD? Sorry if this is a newbie question heh...

Oh and I love my new car, it is freakin' awesome. Glad I stumbled across the Outlander on consumer reports online =)
Thanks in advance!

-Jared

 

The shorth answer is no. It does not copy mp3 CDs.

However, some members here are trying to pull out the hard drive in order to:
1.replacethe 30G 2.5" hard drivewith a larger one, and
2. find a way to load mp3 files directly.

But nobody has succeeded yet. So stay tuned.

 

I dont understand why it wont load mp3. Doesnt it play them on the cd? So why wont it just copy them like every other cd you put in there?

 

Obviously, this is not something technical.
I guess their concern is more related to copywright stuff.

 

Well does it copy songs off normal cds that werent burnt? Like say you download 10 songs and put it on a normal cd will it copy it to the server? I have everything on my ipod now so I have only played 1 cd total in 7 months.

 

The server only copies CD with normal audio format, i.e tracks.
It simply plays mp3 CDs without copying it to the hard drive.

 

You have to make it an MP3 music CD and not a MP3 data CD. Definitely a lot less songs to fit on one CD though.

 

When I play a cd with mp3, my navi-unit spend 3,5 sec between every track.. Is this a joke? Do I need a software-fix? it's a '08.

 

GPseek,
I inserted a disc w/MP3 saved music that i burnt on CD-RW and it downloaded it the server with no issues. It's an old disc so i don't recall what format i saved the music in, but it worked for me fine.

TorePupper,
The delay you are experiencing may be the formatting of the disc or just how the server reads the data from the CD.

 

All the mp3 CDs I've burned and used with the MMCS take forever (3-5 seconds sounds right) to seek between tracks. The unit is indeed very slow in this area. One thing that might help is configuring your CD burning software to organize all the tracks physically on the disc in the same order you'd play them (i.e. alphebetical), but it might not be much though (and seeking to a random track will always be slow).