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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Harry Monk on 19 April 2008, 18:38
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Hi Guys, after your advice on fuel consumption etc, I fianlly picked up my new GTI on Thursday.
I am just playing with all the "gadjets" and want to download some tracks onto the hard drive of the sat nav/head unit thingy.
One problem...I run Itunes on my home PC and cant seem to burn tracks onto an SD card in an MP3 format. (I gather this is the only way that I can down-load into the HD...ie not directly from a CD)
I've read a few "walk arounds "on t'inetenet that tell me how to convert Itunes ito MP3 but they are all very long and require hours of CD burning.
Have any pf you guys come up with a fantastically simple solution.
PS, sorry if there is something really obvious that I have missed...I only picked her up on Friday so have not even read the manual properly...been too busy driving.
By the way.
'08 straight from the factory, Peal black, sat nav, dsg, Monza ii's and a couple of other bits and bobs.
Also...the standard sound system is pretty crap..is there a good after market solution...one that does not require me to fill my boot with amps and crap...just looking for a decent speaker upgrade really?
Cheers
Harry
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There was a recent thread on here about IPODS and one of the posts gave a website link which contains software that allows you to download the entire contents of your IPOD onto your PC in MP3 format. You'll have to search for it yourself though unless someone still has the linky. :smiley:
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There is a program which can convert mp4 (I Tunes format) tracks to mp3 (your required) format. I do not have the name to hand, but if you do a google on mp4 to mp3 converter, which I will do shortly, then you should get sorted. I think the program lets you have a free trial but it has limitations on the free version.
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Thanks guys, I'll get googling
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http://www.download.com/Free-Mp3-Wma-Converter/3000-2140_4-10442362.html
Have a look here, not sure how good or simple this utility is but it's worth a try. The problem is in the I tunes settings, for future reference you need to change the file format in which I Tunes converts the CD tracks to.
PM me if you need any help.
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will these programmes work on songs that have Digital Rights Management (DRM) embedded into them?
Also if you have the original CD's then you can convert them to MP3 format directly using something other than iTunes.
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Not sure bour the DRM question. MP3 file format has no DRM and I Tunes can be used, but you need to tell it to convert your music into MP3 format and not Apples MP4 code.
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there are "methods" of procuring MP3 files off the t'internet but the legalities are dubious to say the least and I would not condone such methods. Support artists and purchase the music. I still prefer to buy CDs but I am old and stuck in my ways.
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I have used Super C, the interface is a bit clunky but it will convert just about any audio/video format to MP3 or MPEG
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)
It will also do batch jobs of multiple files.
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Hi... I'm a bit of an iTunes boffing....
If you want to convert tunes down loaded from Apple/Itunes that you have bought you'll need a converting program that will copy the tracks but without the DRM.
If you have imported your own tunes via cd's then all you have to do is go into Edit / Preferences / Advanced /Importing and change the 'import using' to MP3 Encoder and setting to at least 128Kbps, I would go for 192Kbps cos it sounds better.
Then come out of that and go to your Library / Music and select the tracks to convert. Once selected right click and select 'Convert to MP3'
and sit back and wait....
after it's converted them you can delete the original one and just leave the MP3 version.....
Also from now on when you insert a cd it will auto convert to MP3 without asking....
Hope this helps..
Martininwillerby
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can confirm it only plays WMA (windows media files) or MP3 files
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Martin Big thanks, i have just finished changing my itunes library to mp3 format as you posted before and also changed the burning to mp3 too, now i have all my fav tunes on one cd in mp3 format. :smiley:
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Hi... I'm a bit of an iTunes boffing....
If you want to convert tunes down loaded from Apple/Itunes that you have bought you'll need a converting program that will copy the tracks but without the DRM.
If you have imported your own tunes via cd's then all you have to do is go into Edit / Preferences / Advanced /Importing and change the 'import using' to MP3 Encoder and setting to at least 128Kbps, I would go for 192Kbps cos it sounds better.
Then come out of that and go to your Library / Music and select the tracks to convert. Once selected right click and select 'Convert to MP3'
and sit back and wait....
after it's converted them you can delete the original one and just leave the MP3 version.....
Also from now on when you insert a cd it will auto convert to MP3 without asking....
OK so I have 32 songs in a playlist on iTunes, that come to 148MB, I convert them to MP3's as instructed. When I go to "Burn CD", it tells me these wont fit on one disk, and when I do burn them to CD they take up the whole CD, 700 MB and wont show the song title etc on my RCD300. It does say MP3 on my head unit, can anyone help please ? :cool:
Hope this helps..
Martininwillerby
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OOps!
OK so I have 32 songs in a playlist on iTunes, that come to 148MB, I convert them to MP3's as instructed. When I go to "Burn CD", it tells me these wont fit on one disk, and when I do burn them to CD they take up the whole CD, 700 MB and wont show the song title etc on my RCD300. It does say MP3 on my head unit, can anyone help please ?
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Ah, found the option to burn "MP3 CD's" giving that a bash :nerd:
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Ah, found the option to burn "MP3 CD's" giving that a bash :nerd:
Was just going to reply to you post above then I saw this one.... you must of burnt them as audio files and not MP3's
Just a note.... a 1 minute track converted to 128Kbps = about 1Mb. so 200 x 3.5 mins = 700Mb or 1 full CD-R.
Hope this helps...
Martininwillerby
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Many thanks for your help, MartinWillerby, one more thing if you don't mind.
All my music in iTunes is saved using the AAC format, I think i'd like to convert the whole lot to MP3 as i burn a lot of CD's. As I have over 2000 songs, once converted they would all be doubled, how do you sort them out so you onlt have the MP3 ones, do you simply delete the AAC version, that would take ages!?!
One or 2 songs wouldnt convert, and were missing from the CD. I have the origional cd but they wont convert! I'll keep playing!
Appreciate your help :cool:
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yahoo the rcd300 displays the track names to, it has some use after all. :grin:
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Yep, its cool eh!
I'm wondering if the RCD500 would be an upgrade, soundwise, as I'm a bit dissapointed in the RCD300 to be honest. Want to stay OEM as possible.
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i bought a 500 of ebay, it arrived and didn't work, sent back and seller said i broke it :angry:.
from what i have since seen of them i am not impressed, the in built 6cd takes ages to change and is noisy.thinking of going MFD2 or the 510.
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Thanks K4ith,
I really would like to try the RCD 510 but cant find one for sale.
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All my music in iTunes is saved using the AAC format, I think i'd like to convert the whole lot to MP3 as i burn a lot of CD's. As I have over 2000 songs, once converted they would all be doubled, how do you sort them out so you onlt have the MP3 ones, do you simply delete the AAC version, that would take ages!?!
One or 2 songs wouldnt convert, and were missing from the CD. I have the origional cd but they wont convert! I'll keep playing!
Appreciate your help :cool:
Hi... If you open iTunes on the LHS is Library / Music click on Music and you will see all your tracks listed in iTunes. Then go to view / view options and deselect everything apart from Artist / Album / Time / Track Number / Kind, Then click OK
Now you will see just the above columns. Now click on the top of the column KIND next to the word itself. You should now have an little arrow next to the word KIND. You can scroll down the page and see all your tracks are sorted in what kind of file they are. You should only be able to convert non protected files I think ???
To convert to MP3 a batch (multiple) click on the first file and whilst holding down the shift button click on the last file to be converted, now right click and select convert to MP3. Now sit back and wait.......
once finished don't touch anything. the original files (ACC) should still be selected in blue now right click again and select delete. confirm delete and delete from HDD. you should only be left with MP3 versions now. carry on doing this until all your tracks are converted to MP3.
You could select all Acc files tonight and leave it converting over night whilst in bed...
As a note any original cd you put in should convert straight to MP3...
cheers
Martininwillerby