Hard drive slow after uploading music CDs?
#1
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Hard drive slow after uploading music CDs?
We uploaded about a dozen CDs to the hard drive on our '14, and I noticed twice in about a 15-minute drive the hard drive seems to have a hard time keeping up. Once I went to change albums in the music registry by "select by cover" and it rotated through the covers but then locked up solid for about 5 minutes before it caught up. Another time I tried actually changing to a different album within the registry and it never loaded it, just gave me the status bar and "Loading" for about 10 minutes before I got bored and hit cancel.
Is this normal? I wouldn't think 12-15 CDs is too much to ask of a 10GB hard drive.
Thanks,
Darel
Is this normal? I wouldn't think 12-15 CDs is too much to ask of a 10GB hard drive.
Thanks,
Darel
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to OP - best deal will be using a flash drive and the cable inside glove box
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File format? No idea. What's a CD got on it?
There's a hookup in the glove box for a flash drive?
There's a hookup in the glove box for a flash drive?
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and yes , there was a thread a looooooooong time ago about music , memory cards and Flash drive/hdd connection and how many songs can be stored/played.
so basically instead of Ripping music from a CD to vehicles HDD you can just copy these songs/cds to an external HDD/usb drive and can play them through glove box cord. (in this case you can store more than only a dozen of CDS)
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Meanwhile, I'm with you in the recommendation that using the USB or memory card is a better bet than the internal hard drive. With 64GB on a USB stick or memory card, one can rip literally hundreds of albums using, say, mp3 LAME. Not lossless, but close enough that no one will hear the difference in a car environment.
Last edited by Ken B; 05-05-2017 at 04:50 PM.