USB port for my GTS?

[Mazzaluver]

Hi all

About to embark on an epic road trip in a week or so, and so bought a Seagate portable hard drive for the journey with all my music, to plug into the USB in the glovebox. Problem is the system doesn't seem to recognise the .mp3 files on the hard drive. Should the music be on a USB stick or? What experience have others had with this and what is the best way to go about it? I know there is a 30gb hard drive in the car, but it is a bit cumbersome to copy all the CDs to the drive etc.

Anyone a bit more tech savvy than me with some good advice?

Cheers
ML

 

[FF1078]

Hi ML
I think it has to be on a playing device like an ipod or similar
The system cant drag things from an external hard drive, you can load your discs(if you have them) on to the vehicle hard drive but it takes an age to do just one and you can only listen to the radio while doing this too which is a bit of a bummer!

 

[Tilum]

There are two types of USB inputs in the GranTurismo and GranCabrio.
The basic one is purely a USB charging point.
The more advanced one acts as both a USB charging point and can read mp3 files. With the latter type you can also copy mp3 files straight from the USB flash drive to the car's internal hard drive. You can't listen to music on the hard drive or flash drive whilst it's doing this, but you can still listen to music via the radio or CD player. It is also a lot quicker to transfer music files to the hard drive this way as the car's audio system does not have to compress the music (to an mp3) before copying it.

It is worth noting that the GT/GC's audio system can only recognise files that have a max bit rate of 320 kb/s.

HTH,
T

 

[FF1078]

There are two types of USB inputs in the GranTurismo and GranCabrio.
The basic one is purely a USB charging point.
The more advanced one acts as both a USB charging point and can read mp3 files. With the latter type you can also copy mp3 files straight from the USB flash drive to the car's internal hard drive. You can't listen to music on the hard drive or flash drive whilst it's doing this, but you can still listen to music via the radio or CD player. It is also a lot quicker to transfer music files to the hard drive this way as the car's audio system does not have to compress the music (to an mp3) before copying it.

It is worth noting that the GT/GC's audio system can only recognise files that have a max bit rate of 320 kb/s.

HTH,
T

Cheers T
That's handy to know, it'll save me loading all CD's into car which takes an age!
Nick

 

[Mazzaluver]

Thanks guys appreciated.

Cheers
ML

 

[Tilum]

That's handy to know, it'll save me loading all CD's into car which takes an age!

No problems Nick. I ought to have mentioned that although you can transfer Gig's worth of music files all in one go, I found it easier to transfer a few albums (e.g. 4 or 5) at a time, that way if anything goes wrong (which it did the very first time I tried it) you haven't wasted hours thinking it's transferring them all, only to find that file transfer time has faulted halfway through and you lose track of what has been copied and what hasn't.