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MP3 CD in Infotainment System (1/3)
 1/1/13 2:36pm
chuckjosephson
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Supply, NC - USA

Vette(s):
2006 Monterey Red Coupe / 2013 Night Race Blue Metallic Coupe with Cashmere Interior.


Joined: 8/29/2007
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I just sold my 06 base coupe without Navigation and purchased a 2013 coupe with the navigation and full infotainment system.  The MP3 CDs that worked perfectly in my old car are not recognized in the new system.  Anyone know what the formatting difference is between the two.  I burned the CDs myself on my PC.
 
Thanks for the help.
 
 
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Re: MP3 CD in Infotainment System (2/3)
 11/12/13 1:50pm
sharpseadog
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I'm not sure what is causing your problem, but rather than CD's, I ripped all of my CD's on my PC, then copied them on a 16 Gigabyte thumbdrive and don't even bother with CD's at all.  Where on earth would you store CD's anyway.  Not much space for that in a Corvette.  The thumbdrive I have is smaller than my little fingernail and cost about $15.  Much better solution.  

In addition I also put 5 or 6 audio books on that drive.  You can check out audio books from local library.  You aren't supposed to rip them, but you can.  Only tricky thing I found is that track numbering and disk numbering is often inconsistent within one book (I think they do that to discourage what I did), and the Infotainment system does a poor job of recognizing correct order.  I found I had to do a lot of pc work to assign disk and track numbers and book name so that book would play straight through.  That is a GM vendor problem (I had many hours on phone with GM support, but fact is that the manual lies when it comes to setting up directories), but worth the work to sort it out if you are taking a long trip.




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Re: MP3 CD in Infotainment System (3/3)
 11/19/13 8:25pm
jmarctex
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I have my 3,000+ songs on my I-phone and just plug it into the usb port in the console.  Works great.  It is not as sophisticated as the Bluetooth in my Subaru, where I don't need the cable to connect to a usb port, it is completely wireless. 
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