Downloading music - Ford F150 Forum

Jeff H · 11-17-2009, 04:46 PM

I bought a song from Amazon and downloaded it to my media player and then a flash drive. I plugged the flash drive into my nav/player and selected user device and it played the song just fine.

My question, is there a way to add it to the music library?

shotgun · 11-17-2009, 06:04 PM

If you mean the 'jukebox' (on board HDD), then no (unless you burn an audio CD) and 'import' it on to the HDD.

There is a ton of useful information at syncmyride.com

Jeff H · 11-17-2009, 08:01 PM

Thanks, will the name and title transfer OK?

Platinum_Sean · 11-17-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff H

Thanks, will the name and title transfer OK?

Yes- if its a factory music CD.

If its a homemade CD, the files have to be in WAV (CD_player) format. Sync will not upload MP3 files off a CD. For ones that I have uploaded off a homemade one, even though I had the tags set properly, all songs uploaded as "Unknown Name", "Unknown Artist" so I had to manually edit each one using the touch screen after each one uploaded. After about 5 of these, I said screw it!

Jeff H · 11-18-2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Platinum_Sean

Yes- if its a factory music CD.

If its a homemade CD, the files have to be in WAV (CD_player) format. Sync will not upload MP3 files off a CD. For ones that I have uploaded off a homemade one, even though I had the tags set properly, all songs uploaded as "Unknown Name", "Unknown Artist" so I had to manually edit each one using the touch screen after each one uploaded. After about 5 of these, I said screw it!

I am not experienced at buying (downloading) one song at a time. I have only purchased CD's in the past.

How would a person go about buying one song and uploading it to the Jukebox along with the artist and title? MP3 Player? IPod? What is WAV format? Will my PC's Video player do WAV?

shotgun · 11-18-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff H

I am not experienced at buying (downloading) one song at a time. I have only purchased CD's in the past.

How would a person go about buying one song and uploading it to the Jukebox along with the artist and title?

You can't unless you edit the Artist, Song, Title data as Sean described above.

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Originally Posted by Jeff H

How would a person go about buying one song and uploading it to the Jukebox along with the artist and title? MP3 Player? IPod?

You can only 'load' music to the HDD using and audio CD (essentially you are ripping the audio CD to the HDD).

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Originally Posted by Jeff H

What is WAV format? Will my PC's Video player do WAV?

You can convert audio CDs to *.WAV files. I suggest Googling WAV, ripping, MP3, WMA, etc. Yes, MS Media Player will play WAV files.

You can also read about the Jukebox in the Navigation System Supplement, starting on page 55:

JUKEBOX

Your mobile media navigation system has a Jukebox which allows you to save desired tracks or CDs to the hard drive for later access. The hard drive can store up to 10 GB* (164 hours; approximately 2,472 tracks) of music. The system contains a Gracenote

media database that allows for display of song title, album title, and album cover art. After saving music to the hard drive, you can access and play your music by specific tracks, artists, albums or genres. You can even choose to create and access your own playlists.

*Note:

1 GB equals one billion bytes (1,000,000,000B).

Recording (saving) music to your jukebox

To record (save) music to your jukebox:
1. Ensure that the system is on.
2. Insert a CD into the system. The CD tab will appear.
3. Select ‘Record’ on the touchscreen.

4. Select either individual tracks or press ‘Select All’ to record the entire CD.

Note: The system will default to selecting all tracks if none are selected.
5. Press ‘Start Recording’. The progress will show at the bottom of the screen. When the recording process is finished, the system will save your track(s) / CD to the Jukebox.

Jeff H · 11-18-2009, 07:09 PM

Thanks, I understand now. I appreciate your help!

statikuz · 11-18-2009, 08:40 PM

If you burn a standard audio CD w/ CD text (use iTunes or similar) I imagine the jukebox would read it correctly, with song titles/artists intact. Given that it has the built in CDDB it might just abandon if it doesn't find the CD in that, but it might also try to read the per-song information. Maybe try a very recent factory CD and see what happens? I don't have the whizbang stereo so I can't test this.

Platinum_Sean · 11-18-2009, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by statikuz

If you burn a standard audio CD w/ CD text (use iTunes or similar) I imagine the jukebox would read it correctly, with song titles/artists intact.

I tried a few tests- I used iTunes, Windows Media Player and just writing a WAV file to a CD, and in each "test", the source MP3s (except when it was a WAV already) had the correct tags. I wrote the CD in "CD Player" format, not MP3. put it in the truck, and when I tried to download to the HDD, each time it showed "unknown name, unknown artist". I tried a store-bought CD (U2, How to Dismantle...) and it copied the song titles, artist and album title properly.

Maybe that 2.1 upgrade I did recently might have fixed that. I'l try this weekend if I can.

statikuz · 11-19-2009, 12:55 AM

Right, but when you burned in iTunes, did you make sure and check "Include CD Text" in the Burn Settings window (iTunes 9)? The regular CD player in the truck will read CD Text off custom CDs just fine - it would be lame if it didn't read it when ripping the CD.