inteller wrote:Considering you can get a 16Gb compact flash card these days, you'd be better off messing with that. You can put a LOT of music on that, and not risk screwing up the car.
You might want to be careful about any conclusions based on the availability of 16GB CF cards.
Page 4-48 of the manual documents that with Nav, the maximum number of files recognized is 512 (255 in any one folder). I have a 2GB card absolutely full (only 2 MB free), and it has 496 MP3 files on it. I will admit that most of my MP3s are encoded at 128 kbps, but some are VBR or 160 kbps. That is to say, I doubt even a 4 GB card would buy you much additional usable capacity, much less a 16 GB one.
One more data point to consider. On another forum, an owner said that his EX would only recognize 2 GB of his 4 GB CF card. Based on this report, the possibilities are:1. he didn't have the card formatted FAT32, so the capacity wasn't properly recognized2. he had more than the limit of 512 files loaded3. indeed the EX only supports 2 GB cards at most, even though the manual makes no mention of this
(BTW, I don't have a 4 GB CF card to experiment, and the original poster hasn't seen fit to provide an update.)