Hard drive slow after uploading music CDs?

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May 4, 2017 | 02:23 AM

Darel

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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

May 4, 2017 | 10:36 AM

Ken B

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Ripped using what file format? 15 albums in .wav could easily be ~7.5GB, whereas the same in mp3 LAME will be far less.

May 4, 2017 | 12:01 PM

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Ripped using what file format? 15 albums in .wav could easily be ~7.5GB, whereas the same in mp3 LAME will be far less.

i dont think it uses .wav files to rip songs from CD's , most likely mp3 format , or an Audio file format. but most likely mp3.

to OP - best deal will be using a flash drive and the cable inside glove box

May 4, 2017 | 04:51 PM

Darel

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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?

May 4, 2017 | 06:27 PM

belarus27

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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?

yes when you copying your cd onto HDD , it converts it to a certain file format (your songs on CD's are in Audio Cd format) which is mp3 i believe , correct me please if im wrong.

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)

May 5, 2017 | 12:21 PM

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yes when you copying your cd onto HDD , it converts it to a certain file format (your songs on CD's are in Audio Cd format) which is mp3 i believe , correct me please if im wrong.

Files on the CD are LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulation) - the equivalent of the .wav file I mentioned in my earlier post. Ripping software typically allows the user to stipulate the output file format, which could be anything from .wav, flac, or alac (lossless) to mp3 and other lossy formats. We need to know what Darel is using to rip and with what settings.

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; May 5, 2017 at 04:50 PM.