Copying music to M37's HD

[M37owner]

I love the built in HD in my car to rip/store my music on. I already have copied a bunch of CDs ripped to the internal HD.

Now I want to copy music that I purchased and downloaded on-line. But I can't copy from a USB stick, so I guess I will need to burn everything to a CD then load that into the car.

If anyone has done this - I have a couple of questions:

1) Do I need to rip the music to the CD in a specific format (like CDA or WMA or WAV or will MP3 format work)? My downloads are currently MP3s.

2) Do I need to separate/rip every album into its own CD (so the car can add the titles and cover art)?

3) If the car doesn't add the album/track data, I recall there is a way to get the data from Gracenote and upload it to the car. Does anyone have instructions on how this is done?

Thanks

[adeedpb]

You will have to rip it into an actual CD and that may not even work, I have heard that it must be an original purchased CD. Not sure how true that is because I haven't tried it myself.

[1GR8M56S]

This is an interesting topic I didn't even know our cars had that capability, so has anyone tried a ripped CD?

[ibc]

What's the point of using the stupid internal HDD? Ripping songs all over again? No Eff'ing way, Jose. What a big waste of time. And who carries CDs nowadays? Only store-bought CD's? That's laughable. The '90s are over.

Instead, I burned a DVD of over 700 mp3 songs, and keep that in the radio, permanently. Also, I filled some of these tiny thumb drives with way more MP3 songs (by genre), and PERMANENTLY leave one plugged into the USB slot: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Lo ... B005FYNSZA

The M takes an annoying few minutes (!) to read a full USB thumb drive. So for driving short distances, I prefer the DVD cuz it reads the directory of 700+ songs instantly. OTOH, the USB thumb drive holds WAY more songs, but you need to wait for the radio to initially read the USB directory, once, at the very beginning, and then afterwards it plays 'em smoothly, as expected.

[adeedpb]

Yeah the thumb drive read is annoyingly slow. I prefer XM, DVD, or Bluetooth to the phone.

[CRV_33]

I use the heck out of ripping cd's on the hard drive. But yes it will only tip original cd's and not burnt audio discs.

Gracenote has been pretty good at acquiring album names and titles compared to my old my 2007 G35x. I only encountered one album that Gracenote could not identify, I don't recall if the M37/M56 has the capabilities to move audio onto an external media on the G35x did. You could then upload the track into an application installed on your computer from Infiniti and then download the album and track information.

What's the point of using the stupid internal HDD? Ripping songs all over again? No Eff'ing way, Jose. What a big waste of time. And who carries CDs nowadays? Only store-bought CD's? That's laughable. The '90s are over.

Instead, I burned a DVD of over 700 mp3 songs, and keep that in the radio, permanently. Also, I filled some of these tiny thumb drives with way more MP3 songs (by genre), and PERMANENTLY leave one plugged into the USB slot: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Lo ... B005FYNSZA

I use the DVD player for playing DVD movies. I love the passengers reaction when I play movies in the car, great way to show off the Deluxe package Bose 16 speaker sound system.

[Ilya]

I have all of my 2,400 songs on a 16GB iPod. No hassle. Didn't even know CD's were still a thing.

How does the DVD player work though...is that a special add-on or is the disc drive in the main unit a DVD drive?

[CRV_33]

I have all of my 2,400 songs on a 16GB iPod. No hassle. Didn't even know CD's were still a thing.

How does the DVD player work though...is that a special add-on or is the disc drive in the main unit a DVD drive?

The DVD player is standard on all M37 and M56 models. Normally you can only view the movies on the screen if the car is in Park and the parking brake is engaged, or else it will only play the audio through the speakers.

Beat Sonic and Prestigious Society offer a wiring harness kit that will override the parking brake allowing you to watch DVD's and full access to the navigation control while the car is in motion.

[silberma]

To my surprise my 2015 Q70 does not have a hard drive. It is now hooked up to a I-Pod.

[1GR8M56S]

I tried last night I put a purchased cd and it didnt give me an option to save it and on the owners manual it doesn't even mention anything about it.

[CRV_33]

I think Infiniti removed this feature after the 2012 or 2013 models. Next time you're in the car be sure to have the CD/DVD player displayed on the screen, you should see a button in the bottom left corner of the screen to record the cd or something.

[1GR8M56S]

Oh well ipod it is

[Debonair]

The DVD player is standard on all M37 and M56 models.

I did not know this. I thought it was part of one of the option packages. I'll have to give it a try.

[Ilya]

The DVD player is standard on all M37 and M56 models.

I did not know this. I thought it was part of one of the option packages. I'll have to give it a try.

Same.

[M37owner]

My M37 is a 2011 model. it would be a bummer if they removed this feature in the later models.
But I did read that the copy-protection-Nazis where "trying to put a stop to it". http://www.computerworld.com/article/24 ... -cars.html

What I like most about the internal HD setup is that after I rip the CD to the car's HD, and as I'm playing it back, I can select the songs the like and "tag" them and create playlists. So, I rip 25 CDs and create 5 playlists with my favorite songs (or how ever many). It's a great feature.

Regarding ripping only a "store bought" CD, I'll need to test this - obviously there must be some sort of copy-protection file/mark on the CD that the car is looking for. I'll see if Slysoft.com has anything available to deal with this (I rip all my DVDs and BDs (movies) with their software now which removes the copy-protection).

[M37owner]

I think Infiniti removed this feature after the 2012 or 2013 models. Next time you're in the car be sure to have the CD/DVD player displayed on the screen, you should see a button in the bottom left corner of the screen to record the cd or something.

Right. After you insert the CD, a "record" button shows on the screen. It will record (rip) the entire CD by the time it takes to listen to the first two tracks on the CD.

[Debonair]

It took me forever to delete my cars previous owners interesting music selection. Hopefully, the recording is faster then the erasing. I still have not taken the time to upload any new music to it.

[Ilya]

It took me forever to delete my cars previous owners interesting music selection. Hopefully, the recording is faster then the erasing. I still have not taken the time to upload any new music to it.

I wish there was a way to do 'select all - delete'. My previous owner must have been like 80. I'm 28...99% of that music is 'eh' and I'm a mid-20's guy who listens to everything from Celine Dion to Josh Groban/Michael Buble to Brad Paisley to Frank Sinatra to Kenny G to AC/DC to Eminem and EDM (Electronic Dance Music). I like a LOT of music and have professional musician training of 8 years, but that dudes taste is pretty bad.

[reggiebrown40]

They don't have to be store bought cd's. You can rip your own burned cd's. I like listening to my iPhone and the music box player. The sound quality on the music box player is excellent and very responsive.

Ilyakol, I thought you knew that the M played DVD's -- we talked about the beatsonik adapter a few months ago.

[Altered]

2013 and later do not have the MusicBox feature. I use USB and Bluetooth, and yes indeed the initial wait on the USB is long. In my 2010 Altima I was able to rip CDs I had burned, I don't recall exactly how they were formatted but it definitely is possible for the MusicBox cars.

[Ilya]

They don't have to be store bought cd's. You can rip your own burned cd's. I like listening to my iPhone and the music box player. The sound quality on the music box player is excellent and very responsive.

Ilyakol, I thought you knew that the M played DVD's -- we talked about the beatsonik adapter a few months ago.

I don't remember what I ate for breakfast some days

[M37owner]

I was able to successfully burn a CD from my downloaded music in mp3 format, and then import/record it to the M37's internal HD. I inserted the CD and then saw a message saying something like "downloading from Gracenote" as the CD was read. All of the track names and cover art are correct.

I've now done six CD's like this. No problems with any.

Thanks for all the help and advice.

[SwissCheeseHead]

What's the point of using the stupid internal HDD? Ripping songs all over again? No Eff'ing way, Jose. What a big waste of time. And who carries CDs nowadays? Only store-bought CD's? That's laughable. The '90s are over.

Instead, I burned a DVD of over 700 mp3 songs, and keep that in the radio, permanently. Also, I filled some of these tiny thumb drives with way more MP3 songs (by genre), and PERMANENTLY leave one plugged into the USB slot: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Lo ... B005FYNSZA

The M takes an annoying few minutes (!) to read a full USB thumb drive. So for driving short distances, I prefer the DVD cuz it reads the directory of 700+ songs instantly. OTOH, the USB thumb drive holds WAY more songs, but you need to wait for the radio to initially read the USB directory, once, at the very beginning, and then afterwards it plays 'em smoothly, as expected.

Thanks for the link man. I just bought a few of the newer ones (3.0 vs 2.0) for the cars in my stable. Never realized they existed until this post!

[ibc]

Aren't they cute?

I have some made by SanDisk and Verbatim, of various capacities. Here are some USB 3.0 versions:
http://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Quality ... B00PVUUXLU
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Store-Fl ... B00RORBNSK
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Store-Fl ... B00RORBNWG

Too bad the car radio cannot perform reads at USB 3.0 speeds, but at least things will be faster to load on your modern home computer.

[Ilya]

Quick question on the DVD videos...

What kind of disc (DL or non-DL?) and also what kind of file type can the car read? I burned a DL with some .MKV files and the car couldn't read them.

[adeedpb]

I haven't tried DL yet but DVD-R works for me as a MP3 disc or Video disc

[adeedpb]

[reggiebrown40]

The system definitely plays DVD-DL discs. If your DVD-DL doesn't play correctly it's because of the brand of disc you use.

[Ilya]

Hmm...I don't see video file type mentioned there...just audio (MP3, WMA, AAC). Interesting...I'll have to check to see which ISO level it used...

[adeedpb]

Here is the info about the video: