Compact Flash Card

[majorg]

I had an '07 G35x and used a Compact Flash Card in it. Now I've got EX35 with the same flash drive. Is there a way to download my music from the existing card or I have to start with CDs and repeat the whole process? I am sure someone on these boards will know. Thank you!

[marlin29311]

As long as you never deleted the music off your original CF card, you can just plug it into any device (including your new car) and use it in there. Congrats on the new car!

[dividedhighw]

Welcome to NICO, majorg!

You should be able to just insert the same CF card you used previously with all its stored music, directly into your EX. Does something funky happen when you do that?

OTOH, if you mean you ripped CD music to a hard drive in your G35, I can't help you there.

Cheers,David

[majorg]

I guess I have ripped the CDs on the G35x hard drive. When I install this card to the drive, the display reads "no audio file", when I eject it, it reads "no flash card". What should I do in the future to save it to the CF card? Thank you for your responses.

[Timmbo]

I guess I have ripped the CDs on the G35x hard drive. When I install this card to the drive, the display reads "no audio file", when I eject it, it reads "no flash card". What should I do in the future to save it to the CF card? Thank you for your responses.

Unfortunately there is no way to transfer your ripped CD's from one vehicle hard drive to the next. I guess it is a good time to maybe throw some new (or different) stuff on the new vehicle.

[inteller]

I guess I have ripped the CDs on the G35x hard drive. When I install this card to the drive, the display reads "no audio file", when I eject it, it reads "no flash card". What should I do in the future to save it to the CF card? Thank you for your responses.

just a thought, if your G35x didn't have NAV and your new EX does, make sure your card has less than 512 files on it.[

[dividedhighw]

When I install this card to the drive, the display reads "no audio file", when I eject it, it reads "no flash card".

What does the directory look like when you look at your flash card with a computer? If you can't see MP3 or WMA files on it, the EX CF reader won't recognize it.

What should I do in the future to save it to the CF card?

The EX can't rip CDs to the CF card. You have to do that on your computer (I use CDex, myself: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download).

Make sure you convert the WAV files (to MP3 or WMA) and copy them to your CF card, subject to the restrictions shown on p.4-48 of the manual. Thereafter, just insert the CF card into your EX and enjoy.

HTH,David

[rianklong]

I was very excited for the CF card option and have been disappointed to find that a 2GB card is the maximum. Seems strange to me as 16GB cards are quite common now.

I also was looking forward to the hard drive, mistakenly thinking that I could easily transfer music to the free storage space there. Unless I am missing something the only way to get music to the hard drive is to actually play the CD at regular speed.

This basically renders the hard drive obsolete for me; I can't even remember the last physical CD I purchased. It certainly wasn't this decade.

Oh well. I still really like the tech of the EX. The ipod interface alone is enough to make up for all of that!

[majorg]

Thank you for your help. After reading your comments I 've decided not to bother with CF card and just go with ipod for my music. My G35x didn't have that option. But my new EX35 does!

[dividedhighw]

I was very excited for the CF card option and have been disappointed to find that a 2GB card is the maximum. Seems strange to me as 16GB cards are quite common now.

The limitation is NOT so much on the size of the card, but the ceiling of 512 files in total on the card (for those of us with Nav).

Unless I am missing something the only way to get music to the hard drive is to actually play the CD at regular speed.

Actually, you can rip at faster than regular speed. Once you start the "REC" process you can even switch to listening to some other sound source. If you turn off your car before it completes, the next time you start up, it will continue where it left off.

For you, the extra step would be to burn your digital music to CDA format on a CDRW for example, then get it on the hard drive that way. It's annoying I know, but if there's some music you tend to play a lot, it might be worth doing, rather than simply wasting the 9 GB hard drive.

HTH,David

[rianklong]

Actually, you can rip at faster than regular speed. Once you start the "REC" process you can even switch to listening to some other sound source. If you turn off your car before it completes, the next time you start up, it will continue where it left off.

For you, the extra step would be to burn your digital music to CDA format on a CDRW for example, then get it on the hard drive that way. It's annoying I know, but if there's some music you tend to play a lot, it might be worth doing, rather than simply wasting the 9 GB hard drive.

Thanks David, this is really good to know. Hadn't discovered that yet. Being able to change to another source and/or resume the process makes this feature FAR more likely to be used by me. I was envisioning only being able to burn a CD when I was in the car for the entire length of an album, which isn't too often.

I did read somewhere (not sure if it was the manual or online) that lead me to believe that a CD-RW would not display the "Rec" feature. Haven't tried it yet though. Has this worked for you? I will definitely try it and report back if no one knows for sure.

Thanks!Rian

[jonkarn]

I also just realized that you can only rip CD's to the HD. The HD was a majoy plaus for me since I have a lot of music and don't like carrying CD's. However, I dont have any CD's at all! So does this render my MP3s on my computer useless for my car? Or can I convert my MP3s to another format and rip those to cds? How do I do that? Otherwise my 10GB HD in the car serves no purpose for me.

[dividedhighw]

... can I convert my MP3s to another format and rip those to cds? How do I do that?

As I said above (in my reply to rianklong, Dec 3/08), you can burn your MP3s to an audio CD (native WAV format) ... if you don't know how to do this, you should google it first to figure that out.

Thereafter, you can rip your burned CD to the Music Box hard drive. Assuming the EX will read CDRW (I haven't tried it myself), you might use those instead of "wasting" CDRs.

If you feel ambitious, use an application that can also burn CD Text info onto your audio CDs so that the artist and song title information can be read by the EX (instead of tediously entering them all in one by one). See the Owner's Manual p.4-63 discussing how to set the "Title Text Priority" to CD TEXT.

If "CD Text" is foreign to you, you can google it or start with this Wikipedia link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

HTH,David

[splautz]

I was very excited for the CF card option and have been disappointed to find that a 2GB card is the maximum. Seems strange to me as 16GB cards are quite common now.

I also was looking forward to the hard drive, mistakenly thinking that I could easily transfer music to the free storage space there. Unless I am missing something the only way to get music to the hard drive is to actually play the CD at regular speed.

This basically renders the hard drive obsolete for me; I can't even remember the last physical CD I purchased. It certainly wasn't this decade.

Oh well. I still really like the tech of the EX. The ipod interface alone is enough to make up for all of that!

I can totally relate to you about not remembering when I last bought a CD, and it certainly wasn't in this decade for me either. lol I'd actually be embarrassed to load my archaic cd collection in there. My friends use to bring new cd's in my old car all the time, which I would have loved to be able to instantly rip without them knowing.. lol but unfortunately that was years ago. In this mp3 player/ipod day-in-age, that doesn't happen all that often now. So to make a long story short, I too was disappointed when I found out I couldn't make use of the 9 gigs in there and especially disappointed when I found out about the 512 file limit on the CF. Is it really limited to a 2GB card though? Some of my music files are really long and 512 files would indeed exceed 2GB making a 4GB card the best choice for me. Anyone know if a 4GB CF would be ok and work if the file and folder limits weren't exceeded? I wonder if I physically took the harddrive out of the dashboard and tried to attach it directly to my computer whether I could copy mp3's to it. Any brave soles try that yet?

As for as the IPod interface, that is no bed of roses either. Just shortly after Infiniti released the EX35, Apple took it upon themselves to disable v12 firewire charging on the latest IPod & IPhones, effectively rendering our adapter cables obsolete for any Apple device made after Sept of 2008. It might fit and play music, but it won't charge. Although I did see a pricey adapter out there that perhaps might fix the issue. Anyone use this to get their latest IPhone 3G, Touch 2G, latest Nano or 6th Gen IPod 120GB to charge and work ok? It baffles me while Apple would do such a crazy thing with so many cars out there now relying on that firewire pin to charge. I guess they did it to save money. But it reminds me exactly why I haven't bought an IPod yet in my life... Apple makes it way overpriced and incompatible with anything! And after seeing this, it just sums up my opinion of Apple.. it's like they are bending over backward to do everything to make me not want a product of theirs.

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[Timmbo]

Click below, there are inexpensive adapters available. Nissan suggests one of these three options in a TSB that they released.

zer...ipods

[Homam]

Excuse my ignorance, but does (one file = one song) or can you pack more than one song into a file? How would you do that?

[dividedhighw]

Welcome to NICO, Homam!

One file is usually one song, but it's certainly possible to encode a whole album into a single file. Doing that prevents you from skipping easily from one song to the next and it's difficult to play the 4th song in the album when it's a single .MP3 file, for example.

HTH,David

[LittlePeterPan]

I'm new to the post. Does anyone know which brand of SD to CF type adapter would work on the EX35's compact flash slot, as I bought one from ebay and would not recognize any mp3 files or directories at all when put in.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/wi-fi-SDIO-SD-S ... OC:CA:3160
This is quite a newer (extreme) adapter model but wouldn't work. Does it mean I've to use older version of CF type II adapter? Please help...