Music Box---What Gives?

[huuuuuman]

I am baffled that when music box is recording my CD's, that album/song data is not found (on most, but not all) and I have to manually enter the information. This is getting old very fast. It finds the data on old CD's but not newer ones. The info is embedded on the CD! Is there a setting I'm missing? Does something need to be updated? The car is only 6 weeks old. Any insight to this is most appreciated.

[zarar]

I believe there is a firmware update for it that someone has mentioned earlier on the Infiniti website, it also has instruction. Not entirely sure if it fixes the issue, and if it even effects the 2010 models.

[EX35_bernard]

Read this:

Search Missing TitlesIf titles are not displayed for CDs that havebeen recorded, titles can be acquired usingone of the following methods:� Retrieve from HDDSearches the title using the database inthe hard disk.� Retrieve from CFSearches the title from the informationacquired on the Internet. Visithttp://www.infiniti.com/music-update/ fordetails.� Transfer Missing Titles to CFTransfers the information of thealbum recorded without titles toa CompactFlash card. Visithttp://www.infiniti.com/musicupdate/for details.e. Music Box Settings (See ªMusic Box settingsº later in this section.)f. CDDB Version (the version of the built-inGracenote Database is displayed.)

From pag 4-62 of manual.

[huuuuuman]

Thanks for the links but they are not active. The 2010 EX doesn't have CF capacity. What I don't understand is why Gracenote can't read the embedded information on the CD? Is this a flaw with the audio/music box system? Even our 2010 Honda Insight reads the embedded CD data.....

P.S.----I did go to the Infiniti link to get missing music box titles and printed it out. I'll need to find a thumbdrive and try it. The titles are on my ITouch 3g. Any idea if they can be transferred from my that device?
Modified by huuuuuman at 3:06 PM 2/11/2010

[Punjab]

try http://www.infinitiusa.com/music-update/

[txgcoupe]

My 2010 works just fine.

All data is displayed.

John

[JCL622]

My 2010 works just fine.

All data is displayed.

John

ditto

[sg77]

The info is embedded on the CD!

I don't think that's true. See Gracenote's FAQ http://www.gracenote.com/company_info/FAQ/FAQs/#2b

"On most commercial music compact discs, there is no disc title, artist, track title, credits, or other information"

The way it works I think is based on just the length of the tracks. It looks in its database for a CD that has those exact track lengths. So for newer CDs, you need to have a newer database. In a car though, I don't think they have a way for customers to update the database on the car's hard drive.

[huuuuuman]

I did the download and upload....it went perfectly! Thanks for your help. This forum is great.

[Timmbo]

Welcome to NICOclub, glad we could help!

[zarar]

Stupid question but how do you know if you have a music box in the EX35?

[ramprun]

if you have navigation then i think you also have music box.

[rubbersidedown]

This process seem WAY too cumbersome. Is there no way to update the software to spare us the hassle of downloading/transfering for every new disk? Seems the problem should be attacked from that direction.

[OneOfOne]

you have an ex and you DONT know whats in it? incredible.