Compact Flash

[zacherylee]

First off sorry for what are probably very dumb questions but I've read the manual several times and can not find these answers or figure them out on my own. I just bought a 2008 M35X and I am not sure what kind of compact flash I need to buy. I have several flash cards around the house from camera's, phones, etc... and all are way too small even with the adaptors that some came with. Any help? And if that is not enough I have one other question about the interior lights. Are the lights for the homelink switches supposed to light up? I can not really tell by looking at them so not sure if mine are burnt out or if they are not supposed to light up. Kinda hard to see them at night. Thanks for all your help!

[Ilya]

This is the compact flash (CF) you need:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... ash%20(CF)

[wingFeather]

If the system supports a CF hard drive, you could get a 300 GIG and have every song ever made on tap in your car!

[zacherylee]

Thanks! But how big are these things? They look just like the flash cards I have but that slot is huge! Looks like a cassette can fit in there?

[The00Dustin]

I don't think the homelink buttons have backlighting.
CompactFlash (CF) is a fom factor, you probably have SD or MiniSD or MicroSD or MMC or Sony(insert 2billion proprietary crappy formats here) or something else that is flash, but not CompactFlash (which is ironically the biggiost flash form factor) They are square-ish and were mostly only used in high-end cameras, routers, and old PocketPCs. I'm surprised if/that Infiniti used CompactFlash (I didn't know you could put memory in an 08 M and most cars that take memory go the USB route) considering how few things use it anymore.

[The00Dustin]

Thanks! But how big are these things? They look just like the flash cards I have but that slot is huge! Looks like a cassette can fit in there?

From Wikipedia when you type in CompactFlash:
Dimensions:
43×36×3.3 mm (Type I)
43×36×5 mm (Type II)

Either way, they are no where near as large as a cassette. If it looks like a cassette would fit, I would expect it to be a 2.5" form factor (laptop) HDD, which could be IDE or SATA (would have to find documentation or look in the hole to know which), but I'massuming you read CompactTFlash somewhere and Iyla knows what is going on with the 08, so i don't imagine that is the case.

[Ilya]

You need CF. As previously stated by Dustin, you probably have an SD variant (such as one that goes into a cell phone). I would use NewEgg. I work in IT and have found that NewEgg is the BEST site out there. They ship quickly, have great prices, and their customer service is tops in the industry. I don't use anyone else (unless forced to at work).

[maguzma]

You need the regular or standard CF card. I bought an 8 gig at office depot for 11 bucks. I have stored over 200 songs and prefer the sound from the CF card over the CD. You can all store them on your music box hard drive too if your card gets full. But there is no way I will be able to fill up the card with songs. I use a free audio download software program from RealPlayer. Any music on the internet can be converted to any format and stored on the CF card. I also use the program to strip the audio from video. If you listen to any online radio station you can capture any song you want. Or can take an existing audio CD and pick the songs you want as well as the format too.

[zacherylee]

First off thank you to everyone for all the answers but just as I was getting ready to order one I thought of something... Umm how do I get music onto the CF card?

[M-Pilot]

Try this:

http://www.nextag.com/Kingston-USB-2-0- ... rices-html

[zacherylee]

Thanks so much, I feel like an idiot for not being able to figure it out on my own!