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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: andykram on 10 November 2009, 19:07
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I finally took the plunge at the weekend and got an RNS510 fitted which I have to say is an ace piece of kit. With one exception.
I tend to use my Ipod Nano with the Golf but since it's only a 4Gb model it's now full. So I thought instead of buying a new Ipod I could store a gazillion songs on the hard disc of the 510.
I tried loading a load over the weekend but the 510 doesn't recognise the vast majority of songs I put on the SD card and try to store in its memory. The manual talks about the 510 not accepting songs that are right protected or something but I'm loading songs from my own original CDs onto Windows Media Player so surely they can't all be right protected.
Am I missing something here?
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Ive read somewhere that certains versions of the RNS510 Frimware doesnt support WMA ( apparently no WMA codecs).
SO, are you ripping to WMA or MP3 ?
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Just use CDex to convert to MP3
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
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Converting to MP3 does work and I can now save these to the 510. Thanks for that.
How do I now enter artist and album info onto the MP3 file as the conversion process only saves the song title. This is then all that shows on the 510 display. Sorry if that's a thick question.
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Think I've sorted this myself - will post if successful
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I tend to use my Ipod Nano with the Golf but since it's only a 4Gb model it's now full. So I thought instead of buying a new Ipod I could store a gazillion songs on the hard disc of the 510.
Is storing songs on the HDD as slow (it maybe copies one song every 5 seconds or so) for everybody? Spent ages converting to MP3 but can't face sitting in the car long enough to copy everything (copying a 2GB SD Card took 20-30 minutes)! Seems a waste of time to me given the convenience of SD/USB/iPod.
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a mate has an Evo X and with his HDD based stereo it has a feature to rip songs onto the HDD as you play them off the CD. pretty cool, can the RNS510 do something similar?
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Converting to MP3 does work and I can now save these to the 510. Thanks for that.
How do I now enter artist and album info onto the MP3 file as the conversion process only saves the song title. This is then all that shows on the 510 display. Sorry if that's a thick question.
You should be able to fill in the details by clicking on the second icon from the bottom (Get Album Information from Remote CDDB)
Failing that you could always use MP3Tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
And MP3Gain to normalise all tracks
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
Dan
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a mate has an Evo X and with his HDD based stereo it has a feature to rip songs onto the HDD as you play them off the CD. pretty cool, can the RNS510 do something similar?
Pretty sure not (had a quick browse of the manual). Would be pretty cool though and a bit less nerdy than sitting in the car copying from SD...I saw a Sony stereo that does the same - I think they preload the Gracenote/CDDB/Tracknames onto the HDD.
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For all wifi would cost to put in it, then it would be ideal :cool:
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Thanks everybody - got it all sorted including track and band names.
But it is slow. Not only am I having to resave all my stuff to MP3 but then I'm up and down stairs from the computer to the car. To be fair I've been saving my songs at the highest bit rate (320 I think) so I might try saving the next few at a lower bit rate in the hope that they save a bit quicker (and presumably use less memory on the 510?).
Whether I continue to do this when the novelty of the 510 has worn off though remains to be seen!!!!!
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a mate has an Evo X and with his HDD based stereo it has a feature to rip songs onto the HDD as you play them off the CD. pretty cool, can the RNS510 do something similar?
RNS510 can't do that
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if you burn 4gb of music onto a dvd you can then copy the songs from dvd to hard disk.
I have read elsewhere that there is a new firmware update that lets you use SDHC cards in the RNS510 therefore you could in theory use an SDHC card that has more capacity than the hard disk!