I just bought an 09 Murano last Saturday. It has the Nav System with Music Box. From what I read, you cannot rip mp3 files directly from cd into music box.

I burned a standard data cd with eleven mp3 files in the root directory just to see how the playback sounds. To my surprise all the mp3 files were loaded into music box?!?! I can't seem to find how I did this? (Everything is still new to me and I'm in the "fiddling" stage so I don't remember exactly what and if I did anything differently). I haven't been able to duplicate this with another cd.

The section of the manual for this is poorly written. Are mp3 files indeed supported?

I have yet to try ripping a CD with MP3's on it to the Music Box. At the very least you must have hit the record button. I suppose that since you had them on a CD, I guess it might be possible to rip the MP3's right to the Music Box. I have ripped many CD's (of music) to the Music Box. I also have a 2GB Compact Flash Card. Just so you know, DO NOT use a card larger than 2GB because the files literally get "lost" and the songs will not show up.

From everything I've read from snippets elsewhere on this board and in the manual ripping mp3 files to music box from cd is not possible. Yet somehow I have managed to do just that.

I burned another mp3 cd with files arranged by album in subfolders and I could not get them into music box. I think it may have something to do with having the files in the root directory of the cd rather than in a sub-folder since the one that music box did copy had all files in root. I'll try to burn another in a similar fashion and post my results if successful.

If there's a way I'm determined to find it. Of course, I may just be having a severe brain fart and passed over the page in the manual titled "Copying MP3 Files From CD"

Ok.....everyone here gets to call me an *** on this one (I can take it...my wife does it all the time.)

After burning and trying mp3 cds in all kinds of different ISO formats for testing I took another look at the original cd I used that went to music box. Looking at the files this time I noticed the .cda extension which means that this was indeed an audio cd!! I would have sworn I burned this as a data cd?!?!

Apologies to anyone who may have gotten their hopes up reading this thread. On the plus side I have plenty of bright shiny new coasters!

You and I must have been posting at the same time....

From everything I found you can only rip audio cds into music box (Those with .cda extensions). I messed with this for some time yesterday and could not get .mp3 files to load. If there's a way I sure would like to find out.

Regarding the laptop option:
I wonder if there's a way you could use a USB to CF adapter to inferface your laptop into the stereo? I imagine a particular driver might be required so your laptop can emulate a 2Gb CF card. I don't see why it wouldn't work. If the owners manual is correct though you are still restricted to .mp3 files. Even if you could use audio files you can't store raw audio (.cda) files on a computer hard drive.

I'm going to buy a CF card and reader later today. If I can find a USB to CF adapter I may just pick that up as well. It might be fun to mess around with this.

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Ok.....everyone here gets to call me an *** on this one (I can take it...my wife does it all the time.) After burning and trying mp3 cds in all kinds of different ISO formats for testing I took another look at the original cd I used that went to music box. Looking at the files this time I noticed the .cda extension which means that this was indeed an audio cd!! I would have sworn I burned this as a data cd?!?! Apologies to anyone who may have gotten their hopes up reading this thread. On the plus side I have plenty of bright shiny new coasters!

No harm done my friend! Thanks for the feedback, we all REALLY appreciate it!