[Paul]

I live in the UK and have had my 718 Cayman since August. I am quite out of my depth in trying to use the 'entertainment' system. I have totally failed in trying to 'import' a CD into the Jukebox. I follow the handbook instructions, but the screens that come up are not what they say. I have spent hours trying to do this. Can anyone help? I need to add that I am also a bit out of my technological depth in trying to use this forum. Never done this before.


Paul

 

[Uz718]

I live in the UK and have had my 718 Cayman since August. I am quite out of my depth in trying to use the 'entertainment' system. I have totally failed in trying to 'import' a CD into the Jukebox. I follow the handbook instructions, but the screens that come up are not what they say. I have spent hours trying to do this. Can anyone help? I need to add that I am also a bit out of my technological depth in trying to use this forum. Never done this before.


Paul

Hi Paul
Nice to meet you!
We are having a 718 meet in Towcester Silverstone next month. Feel free to come along!
https://doodle.com/poll/u2eqpn6mmb6etad9

Someone will chime in on your jukebox issue shortly
Uz

 

[Muppet]

I live in the UK and have had my 718 Cayman since August. I am quite out of my depth in trying to use the 'entertainment' system. I have totally failed in trying to 'import' a CD into the Jukebox. I follow the handbook instructions, but the screens that come up are not what they say. I have spent hours trying to do this. Can anyone help? I need to add that I am also a bit out of my technological depth in trying to use this forum. Never done this before.


Paul

I don’t think you can import music CD’s you have brought.
The only CD’s you can import into the Jukebox are ones you’ve copied your music to MP3 format off a computer.
Buy & use an SD Memory Card your car has 2 slots under the display.
I’ve copied mine over from iTunes it works a treat, even have album artwork displayed.
It will save cluttering up your cars memory as well.

 

[Nosmo]

I live in the UK and have had my 718 Cayman since August. I am quite out of my depth in trying to use the 'entertainment' system. I have totally failed in trying to 'import' a CD into the Jukebox. I follow the handbook instructions, but the screens that come up are not what they say. I have spent hours trying to do this. Can anyone help? I need to add that I am also a bit out of my technological depth in trying to use this forum. Never done this before.


Paul

I don’t think you can import music CD’s you have brought.
The only CD’s you can import into the Jukebox are ones you’ve copied your music to MP3 format off a computer.
Buy & use an SD Memory Card your car has 2 slots under the display.
I’ve copied mine over from iTunes it works a treat, even have album artwork displayed.
It will save cluttering up your cars memory as well.

∆ As he says.....

 

[TheLip]

I agree with Muppet. However, I would recommend using a USB thumb drive instead of an SD card as a thumb drive is much faster than an SD card. I have found that Sandisk works great and they have large capacity drives that have very small form factors. I use the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive:

https://shop.sandisk.com/store/sdiskus/pd/productID.5214542500/varProductID.5214542700

Just my 2 cents.

 

[GregW]

I use an old phone as an iPod through the glove box USB port.

 

[Viffermike]

I agree with Muppet. However, I would recommend using a USB thumb drive instead of an SD card as a thumb drive is much faster than an SD card.

Actually, that's not quite true in our application -- in fact, they're very comparable. (We're only concerned with read speeds here.)

Assuming conditions and hardware are ideal:

Top-of-the-line USB 2.0 = 10 to 25 MB/s (Megabytes per second)
SD Card, Class 10/UHC 1 (there are classes better than this, too) = about 15 MB/s

What puts an SD card over the top over a USB thumb drive is its design intent. SD cards are designed for frequent read/write activity in extreme conditions with limited disconnection and physical resilience -- in other words, they're meant to stay put in places such as cameras, music players, expansion slots, etc. A USB thumb drive's design intent prioritizes frequent disconnection and high physical resilience over operating conditions (i.e., a hot dashboard or car interior) and footprint/size.

For the purposes of feeding music in cars, SD cards are far superior for the same reasons cameras, DMPs, and other hardware use them: install-and-forget utility, wide operating range, and small form factor.

 

[nineball]

I agree with Muppet. However, I would recommend using a USB thumb drive instead of an SD card as a thumb drive is much faster than an SD card. I have found that Sandisk works great and they have large capacity drives that have very small form factors. I use the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive:

https://shop.sandisk.com/store/sdiskus/pd/productID.5214542500/varProductID.5214542700

Just my 2 cents.

i've been running a 128g (half full) sd card in my car since the week i bought it and i have not had a problem.

 

[TheLip]

In the first car that I had that had both an SD slot and a USB connector, whenever you switched sources, the unit would pause to initiate and read the storage media. The initiation of the USB drive was noticeably faster than that of the SD card. I haven't done any speed comparisons of late, so the playing field may well have changed since my opinion was formed.

 

[Viffermike]

In the first car that I had that had both an SD slot and a USB connector, whenever you switched sources, the unit would pause to initiate and read the storage media. The initiation of the USB drive was noticeably faster than that of the SD card. I haven't done any speed comparisons of late, so the playing field may well have changed since my opinion was formed.

That's why I included the 'conditions and hardware are ideal' disclaimer. It could very well be that the system you based that opinion on was set up differently. I find that in PCM4, data acquisition and presentation from the SD card slots is very quick -- and it only needs to be done once, i.e. the data appears to load to the system at startup each time until the card itself is removed, which would tell the system to do a full memory purge/reload of the data on the card. I know this because I've tested it -- and the song I have set to play is always immediately available when I switch the car on.

Also keep in mind that in PCM4, the SD card slots are set up to be almost exclusively read-only (one-way) -- meaning less software and OS gobbledygook for the CPU to have to wade through to get to data. The USB ports are meant for two-way data transfer and, in some cases, OS sharing (i.e., CarPlay), so there more possibility for latency since the bottleneck is about the same size between the two.