Transfering mp3 to music server
#11
05-08-2007 | 03:59 PM
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RE: Transfering mp3 to music server
I'm going to be daring and try something here. I noticed that the drive is a standard laptop 2.5" hard drive. I also noticed that its held in with 2 torx screws. I'm going to try removing the drive from the car. Then I'm going to make a disk image of the drive and clone it onto a larger 80gb hard drive I have laying around. Then I'll do all the work on my 80gb drive and leave the factory one untouched. In addition, I'm going to rip 2 music cd's to the drive beforehand so I can see how the filesystem and file format is created when cd's are ripped. I'm guessing it will look similar to CDFS since it reads cd's in the same format. I'm also guessing that the format the cd's are ripped to is MP3 or WMA since the stereo itself decodes these file types. If this is the case, we may have a really nice breakthrough for transferring massive amounts of MP3's to the drive with a PC.
Any thoughts or comments? Anything I overlooked?
Any thoughts or comments? Anything I overlooked?
#13
05-08-2007 | 06:07 PM
Joined: Feb 2007
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RE: Transfering mp3 to music server
That's a great idea, I hope everything works out well, so that maybe some of us can try the same. I currently have about 30GB of music on my computer that I'm a bit tired of burning onto a CD and then ripping onto the HDD. Also, I don't have all complete albums, so maybe this will give us a way to easily categorize the music.
#15
05-08-2007 | 07:45 PM
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You have to be one brave guy to take apart a 1800$ navigation system. Do the risk of a bigger hard drive and hooking it up to a computer out weight the risk of toasting the hard drive? Thats awesome if it works but I have 0 songs on there and plan on keeping them on my ipod of a cd. I want to keep the hard drive open for navigation. If you jam it full of songs and navigation updates it has to slow down the performance I would imagine.
#16
05-08-2007 | 09:31 PM
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RE: Transfering mp3 to music server
ORIGINAL: rdenis
I think you have the right approach. How are you planing to test the abililty of the MMCS to recognize the larger drive?
I think you have the right approach. How are you planing to test the abililty of the MMCS to recognize the larger drive?
As long as he doesn't do any modifications (like writing to the drive) on the mitsu drive, if this attempt fails he can always put it back into the unit like it nothing ever happened.
If this works it will definitely be another great project for the Outties. Good Luck!!
#18
05-08-2007 | 11:17 PM
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RE: Transfering mp3 to music server
ORIGINAL: jessenj
I'm going to be daring and try something here. I noticed that the drive is a standard laptop 2.5" hard drive. I also noticed that its held in with 2 torx screws. I'm going to try removing the drive from the car. Then I'm going to make a disk image of the drive and clone it onto a larger 80gb hard drive I have laying around. Then I'll do all the work on my 80gb drive and leave the factory one untouched. In addition, I'm going to rip 2 music cd's to the drive beforehand so I can see how the filesystem and file format is created when cd's are ripped. I'm guessing it will look similar to CDFS since it reads cd's in the same format. I'm also guessing that the format the cd's are ripped to is MP3 or WMA since the stereo itself decodes these file types. If this is the case, we may have a really nice breakthrough for transferring massive amounts of MP3's to the drive with a PC.
Any thoughts or comments? Anything I overlooked?
I'm going to be daring and try something here. I noticed that the drive is a standard laptop 2.5" hard drive. I also noticed that its held in with 2 torx screws. I'm going to try removing the drive from the car. Then I'm going to make a disk image of the drive and clone it onto a larger 80gb hard drive I have laying around. Then I'll do all the work on my 80gb drive and leave the factory one untouched. In addition, I'm going to rip 2 music cd's to the drive beforehand so I can see how the filesystem and file format is created when cd's are ripped. I'm guessing it will look similar to CDFS since it reads cd's in the same format. I'm also guessing that the format the cd's are ripped to is MP3 or WMA since the stereo itself decodes these file types. If this is the case, we may have a really nice breakthrough for transferring massive amounts of MP3's to the drive with a PC.
Any thoughts or comments? Anything I overlooked?
