BlackjackM

What's the best alternative to downloading music now that you can't rip CDs right to the hard drive? Are people using a thumb drive, SD card, etc? Any sorting/folder issues or is it all easily manageable?

What size thumb drive/SD card is necessary for, say, 2500 songs?

Long Islander

Does this mean there is no CD player anymore on a W213? (I have a 2018 E400 on order and never bothered to check for this).

ua549

CD's are pretty much obsolete and DVD's even Blu-ray are fading fast. I put my songs on an SD card. You can also use a USB device.

Currently I'm ripping all (1.000's) of my CD's to a Windows Server using Media Monkey. From there I'll package them into smaller units by genre for the car. 50,000 files is the upper limit that the MB system can handle. That said, I'm really enjoying the SiriusXM trial. The downside is the one loses the signal when going under bridges, entering parking garages, transiting narrow streets with tall buildings, etc.

nycphotography

my main problem annoyance is that SD files are sorted alphabetically.

So I ended up writing a little c# thingy that will take a directory, display the files, let me reorder them, then it produces a "sequenced" directory "001-song" "002-song" etc. kindofa wonky thing to have to do.
Really wish there was some kind of standard "dir.seq" file I could write.

Does anyone know if there is a standard way to write playlist files that reference the files on a SD card that the car will consume?

c4004matic

I ripped all my cds into flac files. 5000+ tracks.... I keep them on a flash drive.

ua549

Does the system support flac files? They are not listed as being supported.

Long Islander

If I take the selections from my iTunes library, can I preserve the playlists on the car's hard drive?

ua549

First, to the best of my knowledge the w213 does not have a hard drive.
Second, I do not use playlists so I can't comment.

c4004matic

There is no hard drive. You can use either an SD card or a usb drive.

BlackjackM

Correct, no CD player.