[LabrosNic]

hi guys! today I wanted to copy some songs from a USB stick to the Jukebox of my car. So I format the usb to exFat and copy the songs. The car can not read the USB stick when is connected to the port in the glove box. I have options on the menu as USB 1.1 and USB 1.2 but either I choose nor reading is achieved.

Then I format the USB stick to FAT32 format, same luck nothing can be read.

can you advise which format I need to use? tried with MacBook and also with a pc.

 

[JazzCatGab]

Are you choosing the Source and then doing the Option button => Import to Jukebox step?

 

[LabrosNic]

Are you choosing the Source and then doing the Option button => Import to Jukebox step?

I will try it after office and I will come back on the outcome

 

[DriveInHouston]

If you have a USB port under the armrest, then the glove box USB is just a charge port, no data.

 

[highwire_ca]

I don't have the carplay option, so the only USB port is in the glove box (2017 Cayman S). I have successfully used that port and both SD card slots to copy music to the jukebox. All were formatted in either FAT or exFAT.

 

[LabrosNic]

Guys problem solved. Glove box USB port worked. The problem was that I was formating as fat 32 from my Mac. I have formatted in Windows as fat 32 and now is working and copied to jukebox.

 

[jimmuller]

If you have a USB port under the armrest, then the glove box USB is just a charge port, no data.

Yeeaahh, I think this isn't quite correct. I used my glovebox USB port to load up the jukebox and I have the armrest port.

I really wish it had the audio aux input in the glovebox but it doesn't.

 

[LabrosNic]

Mine has a USB port and aux in at the govebox . Soon I will have the apple car play and wireless charger at the armrest. But now I copied more through the sd card slots and it was way fast the process

 

[Chris NZ]

Yeeaahh, I think this isn't quite correct. I used my glovebox USB port to load up the jukebox and I have the armrest port.

I really wish it had the audio aux input in the glovebox but it doesn't.

Agreed, I can use either USB port for music playback.

To the OP, not sure what file format you are using, but if I recall correctly the PCM converts all files transferred to the Jukebox to mp3 (I think @Viffermike can confirm this?). So if you prefer playback of full resolution audio files you might be better off keeping the files on the USB stick.

 

[jimmuller]

To the OP, not sure what file format you are using, but if I recall correctly the PCM converts all files transferred to the Jukebox to mp3 (I think @Viffermike can confirm this?). So if you prefer playback of full resolution audio files you might be better off keeping the files on the USB stick.

Either Mike or DIH said it not only converted everything to mp3 but also to a certain bitrate. When I loaded up my jukebox from the USB slot it took a long time. That's probably why. Now I'm just playing stuff directly off an SD card. The jukebox is still there with a different collection of music.

 

[vosadrian]

Hi All,

I have all my music on an SD card and play from that. Is there any benefit to copying everything to the jukebox?

 

[GregW]

Hi All,

I have all my music on an SD card and play from that. Is there any benefit to copying everything to the jukebox?

No benefit of which I am aware.🙂

I use an old iPhone as an iPod through the glove box USB and keep videos in the SD card slots.

 

[Chris NZ]

I have all my music on an SD card and play from that. Is there any benefit to copying everything to the jukebox?

Not that I can see. I have a 64GB SD card with loads of albums in flac format and it works really well.

 

[vosadrian]

Thanks for that... I will just keep going with the SD card then. I was not sure if there was some functionality added by having the media on board.

 

[Treemagnet]

I have a 64GB SD card with loads of albums in flac format and it works really well.

I also use a 64GB SD card with everything in FLAC format and concur with @Chris NZ, it works very well.

Had a 2nd 64GB SD laying around, which I'm working to load when I have extra time...may as well utilize both available slots. FWIW both cards are SanDisk Extreme Pro U3-10 95MB/s. Those SD cards were relatively high speed when I got them 3 years ago, although I'm not sure if that matters much in this application.

 

[DriveInHouston]

Either Mike or DIH said it not only converted everything to mp3 but also to a certain bitrate. When I loaded up my jukebox from the USB slot it took a long time. That's probably why. Now I'm just playing stuff directly off an SD card. The jukebox is still there with a different collection of music.

I am using a SD card, so it wasn't me...

 

[Chris NZ]

Was about to load my SD Card into the car for tomorrow (i've been adding some new albums) and thought i'd check how many albums etc.

I've got around 120 albums stored on it (five or so of which are in HD [24-96 or higher] so the files are bigger) and still have around 17GB of space on a 64GB SD card. I also have a 32 GB USB stick in the glove compartment, which is what i was using in my previous car - these are all .WAV files, which is how the majority of my music is stored on my home server).

It's no where near my full collection but that would be unmanageable anyway, but way better than the old CD change or my old cassette box.

 

[Viffermike]

Sorry I've been MIA since this came up ... anyway: it was I who claimed that songs uploaded to the Jukebox are converted to mp3, and those uploads are almost certainly downsampled significantly to make more songs fit on the onboard HDD that the Jukebox lives on. Both are common practices on most OEM Infotainment systems with onboard storage. It's why I avoid using them and opt for what @Treemagnet does: hi-res FLAC files on an SD Card, which is a far better solution than a thumb drive for reasons I get into in other threads.

 

[piran]

Totally agree with @Viffermike and @Treemagnet. I favour 128GB SD (usual SanDisk 95MB/s stuff) loaded with FLAC files. Alternatively I click the voice control stalk and simply say "play Bluetooth" to trigger a Tidal (HiFi upgrade) 300+ favourite playlist subscription music stream (unlimited data plan/iPhone/Burmester). Anyway the Jukebox is capacity limited to about 10GB & 3,000 files (transfer is a bit on the slow side). I 'think' I tried feeding it FLAC files but can't remember the outcome other than I gave up (transfer speed and lack of capacity - as above).