I see another thread here about their Sync radio going bad and was wondering

I will have to admit that I have borrowed a few of my friends CDs to record into my JukeBox and has established a pretty good collection that took a good bit of time to get downloaded from CD and would be hard to put it back to where it was if the radio died.

While I know Ford would replace my radio, what about all the music. Does sync give us a way to back everything up? Will ford give me the hard drive from the old radio so I can copy everything to the new drive?

I suspect I (We) would be SOL.

It would be nice if MS and Sony would give us some type of a back door to help us do a back up but knowing Sony, they are VERY BIG into the copyright thing and it will not happen

Just wonder if others have thought about the same thing.

 

I don't have the NAV system on my KR but I would try hooking up your computer to the USB port and see what you can find. You may have to poke around and find the hard drive the Jukebox uses to store the music.

 

is this jukebox only on the trucks equiped with NAV?

 

I am not sure. My Platinum has the NAV system which is hard drive based and I assume it uses the same hard drive for the JukeBox feature.

My LX570 did not use SYNC but had a hard drive for the NAV and to record music. It was tied into the Mark Levison stereo whic was the best I have ever listened to, though the Sony is not bad.

 

Even if you could back it up, it would do you no good...since the ONLY way they have provided to be able to add songs to the Jukebox is by CD.

I've only put about 500 songs on mine so far, mainly as a test to see how it worked. And, if I didn't have an iPod with over 11K songs on it, I would be very impressed with the Jukebox. So, I had to go into iTunes, and burn a few Playlists to CD...and I was getting about 20 songs per CD, so I had to burn 25 CDs to get the 500 songs on there.

What really gets me is why they didn't allow songs, and the photos you can add to your home screen, to be uploaded via the existing USB port, instead of CD ONLY. To me, that is totally ridiculous!!!

 

You might ask the dealership if they can pull our the HDD and put it in the new unit. That would be a quick way to transfer it.

If you can use a laptop to pull the music off then you may be able to burn a DVD (if it will play it) or CD in MP3 format which gives you a tun of songs per CD, and upload them that way. This would still suck but it would be faster than one cd at a time.

Good Luck

 

Can you burn the songs to CD at the same time you place them on your iMac? I am new to the whole buying music via internet game. We have a new iMac and my wife has an iphone, but I need the blackberry for the office so I am hoping that I am able to play songs from the iphone, blackberry and jukebox. Truck will be here in a month so I have some time.

 

I wonder ... if someone with the NAV/JukeBox system would check to see if there's a cable connected to the "second USB port" referenced in this thread https://www.f150forum.com/f38/mystic-second-usb-port-19345/
... if there is, maybe it's hooked to the HDD and could be plugged to a laptop and read. If so, maybe a backup could be done this way.

 

Yes, you can. And, you can play from all three, and the phones don't even have to be plugged in to the USB port...they'll stream. However, that will run down your battery...and I have seen some pauses in the streaming, so I keep my streaming turned off and just use USB to play.


sig, it will not take the upload of music from a DVD or in MP3 format. Like I said, it's nice...but somebody didn't think all this through. They give you the option to add music to the Jukebox hard drive in an archaic way.

Same way for the photos you can put on your home screen, as you can see below. They have to be uploaded via CD.

 

^ 90 degrees at 630 pm...damn i miss TX!