Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[Roonaldo]

Did you get your car? Bet you're loving it. Probably too busy, but any joy with checking this?

I did get my car, and yeah, loving every minute of it!  I saw the thread and remembered about the playlist thing so I've had a bit of a play about.  Basically, I use iTunes for one thing, and one thing only - to get my own music collection onto my iDevices.  So, I'm just going to assume that a playlist playing on your iPhone, streaming via Bluetooth will work just fine.  You can export playlists, but from what I read, the output will need tweaking.

However, I did manually create the simplest of playlists for use on an SD card as follows.

• Created a folder at the root of my SD card called #PlayLists so that it's at the top
• Created a TestPlayList.m3u file inside that folder
• Added a few entries in the format ..\artistfolder\albumfolder\songname.mp3

This worked absolutely fine.  All of my music is stored on my SD card in Artist/Album/Song format, but you may have your folders set up different so the paths you create inside the playlist would need to be altered to match.

I don't actually bother with playlists myself, but I know there is plenty of software out there that will create a standard .m3u playlist for you based on the songs that you want.

Thanks for checking.

I have my music organised same as yours, however I also use iTunes for my playlists aswell (as they can do smart playlists, which are really useful).

Have to test if iTunes playlists will work from SD card.

Should get mine next week hopefully..!

[Gryzor]

Let us know how you get on Roonaldo.  I did a quick test export from iTunes but didn't check it worked as the .txt file was a format I wasn't familiar with.  At the end of the day, with bluetooth streaming, the fact that playlists work at all off SD card is a bonus really.

[mcmaddy]

do you know which bit rate the new unit can take? will it do vbr ? or is 192a better rate.

[Gryzor]

do you know which bit rate the new unit can take? will it do vbr ? or is 192a better rate.

It supports all MP3 bit rates as far as I know, up to 320 and VBR.  In theory VBR gives you the most "efficient" file by giving you a higher bit rate in complex parts, and lower bit rates when there maybe isn't so much going on.  The average bit rate can therefore vary from track to track, but in reality I'm sure sounds just as good as 192kbps .

Maybe my hearing is not that great, but a while back I took a range of music styles on CD and created 64, 128, 196, 256, and 320 sample rates of each type.  I then played them all through a variety of speakers, and honestly, for me the cut-off point was just 128kbps.  After that I couldn't really appreciate any difference, so I stuck at 196kbps as a decent compromise on size vs quality.  At the end of the day, 320 is going to be better than 192, but it's whether or not you can tell/appreciate the difference.  I'm no audiophile though, but then again, no true audiophile would use a lossy compression anyway!

Let me know if you'd like me to actually test VBR to see if it plays.

[mcmaddy]

on the old rns510 it played vbr no bother but wouldn't show the track length whereas bit rates of anything other than vbr showed the track length no bother.

[Gryzor]

on the old rns510 it played vbr no bother but wouldn't show the track length whereas bit rates of anything other than vbr showed the track length no bother.

Works fine mate, just tried it. Shows track length information etc.

[mcmaddy]

cheers gryzor. just ordered a white tax disc holder too

[Gryzor]

cheers gryzor. just ordered a white tax disc holder too

Yeah I just saw,nice one!  It will look nice, but I just think white with white is a bit much.  The red will almost stand out less but also ties in the accents.  Splitting hairs though, both look waaaaaay better than dealer-fit rubbish!

[mcmaddy]

cheers gryzor. just ordered a white tax disc holder too

Yeah I just saw,nice one!  It will look nice, but I just think white with white is a bit much.  The red will almost stand out less but also ties in the accents.  Splitting hairs though, both look waaaaaay better than dealer-fit rubbish!

 

[MM087]

Any Pics of the Album Art on Screen ?