02-17-2010, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Need help with stereo system...
So I've had this idea to put my entire music collection on a portable hard drive and use this to access my music once I got the Camaro. Well, I have the car now and when trying to hook up my hard drive it says that "no supported data was found" Has anyone here done this and know the secrets?
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02-17-2010, 08:01 PM | #2 |
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there are other threads that talk about this, but i dont believe anybody has had any luck with this yet. the problem is that the memory in the car will only read the first 2500 songs on any device except the ipod. the only reason the ipod works is because it manages the music itself were as a thumb drive (or in your case hard drive)only stores the music and the radio has to do the rest of the work.
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02-17-2010, 08:09 PM | #3 | |
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And as already mentioned only the first 2,500 songs will be read even if it was which you can fit on a 16 gig thumb drive that you can buy for $20-$25. To have access to your complete collection, you will have to buy an iPod. |
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02-17-2010, 08:17 PM | #4 |
Derrick
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or you could get a netbook and connect it with bluetooth or headphone wire adapter to the car. connect your portable hard drive to the netbook and use whatever music software you want to manage the music!
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02-17-2010, 09:09 PM | #5 |
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16GB Nano (4,000 songs per Apple) $179, & you can probably find one cheaper. Then you can control everything from the stereo head unit....Just my opinion
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02-17-2010, 09:50 PM | #6 |
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I have all my tunes on my Windows Mobile phone on a uSDHC card. Playing via a cable now, but hope to have the PDIM installed tomorrow.
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02-17-2010, 10:01 PM | #7 |
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Thanks for the replies all!
I toyed with it a little more tonight and was able to get a flash drive working on it. My guess with the hard drive is that the usb outlet in the car may not push enough power to power the hard drive and access the songs....or it just could be that I have so much on the drive that it is overloaded. I got a smaller flash drive to work just fine but I sadly couldn't get it to recognize folders. I do have a netbook and think I may use that when we are travelling. I'll probably just use this and maybe a couple other flash drives to access day to day music with. My wife does have an 80 gb ipod. It's not enough to tackle our entire music collection (120 gb) but I think I may try that out tomorrow and just refresh it with the stuff we like most. I was able to pair my iphone to the stereo (via the bluetooth) and stream music through pandora too....that will work nicely as well. I plan to do alot of research on all this and continue to try to get it all working as needed so if anyone else has anyone questions and wants to post it here I may be able to help on it in the future when I've done some homework about all this stuff. This was the first night that I've really had the car so I'm still sort of a noob at the moment. |
02-17-2010, 10:10 PM | #8 |
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You can get a refurbished ipod classic 120gb for $189 black or silver on apple.com they have smaller ipods at a discount also.
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02-17-2010, 10:13 PM | #9 |
iPod.. much better song/play list management... I'm using a 2nd gen and it works just fine..
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