Jukebox Storage

Porsche2018 said:

I was reading about the Jukebox storage feature in advance of taking delivery of my car and I have a few questions someone may be able to shed some light on:

1. Has anyone loaded music to Jukebox and is it a time consuming process?
2. is he jukebox storage on the Cayman and Boxster only 11GB?
3. can the storage capacity be increased (especially since I have about 30GB of music)?
4. I will load all my music on a pen drive and leave it in the glove compartment attached to the USB port.....question is it a slow process to retrieve the music from a USB device as the source? I will be using a 3.0 USB with up to 100MB/s read capability.....

If possible, I would much prefer being able to have all my music stored on the cars hard drive.........

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My two cents, as an audiophile with plans to upgrade my 718's base stereo:
1. Haven't, and won't. My big concern is sample size; there's no info in the Owner's Manual regarding what bitrate the Jukebox stores digital files in. My previous car (BMW 2 Series) actually downsampled to 256Kbps to maximize space. If 256 Kbps sounds fine to you, great, but it doesn't to me, particularly considering the bass response that even the base Sound Package Plus audio has.
2. This has been answered. However, the two SD card slots can take up to a 128GB SD card each. That means 256GB of media storage (audio/video/etc.) in nearly any format you choose. The kicker is that the system will read files in nearly any lossless codec except for AIFF and OGG. I already have a 128GB SD card stuffed with FLAC audio files in my car; playback is great. That makes the Jukebox trivial, IMHO.
3. No. It's almost certainly a partition on the PCM's HDD.
4. Haven't tried it. That said, other feedback suggests it's reasonably quick, and so far I've been impressed with how quickly PCM operates. PCM4's got a nice-sized processor in it. Great for us!

Chilli said:

If you want to try ripping a few CD's in different formats for experimentation then I can recommend dBpoweramp. It's an absolute cinch to use. It's fairly inexpensive but in any case they allow you a 21 day free trial. All converted files will be stored on your computer & you can just drag them to an inserted SD card.

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@agent 86 I'll second the dbPoweramp recommendation, particularly if you want to keep things simple regarding file conversion. I can equally recommend JRiver Media Center, which has far more functionality for building and maintaining a high-quality digital music library. It's not the easiest software to use, but once you get the hang of it, it's phenomenal.

I have a redundant setup at home:
- A Mac Mini with AIFF files running JRiver Media Center (rarely used; it's primarily there for CD burning), with iTunes as backup
- A two-drive Synology NAS with Seagate Iron Wolf HDDs, running dbPoweramp and FLAC files, with the Synology media manager software as backup
- A Cambridge CXN digital music player (chosen because it upsamples certain files and has fully integrated Spotify functionality) to "feed the sonic beast" at home
- Dedicated external hard drive, formatted in exFAT, for archiving my FLAC file library and enabling easy file transfer to SD cards, thumb drives, etc. via either OS X or Windows