I wounder if anyone has tried one of the larger capacity 8, 12, or 16gb CF cards in their G35. I have a big MP3 collection I'd like to play in my car, but these larger cards are expensive and would like to know if the G35 is going to be able to read them before buying one.

 

There is a limit of 512 files on the card so there's no point, just get a few 2GB cards.

 

burn them to CD and load it up on your hard drive...

 

So are you telling me I can transfer my MP3s to the car's hard drive? How do you do this? I've only had my G for 3 days now and haven't totally figured out how the Musicbox works. I thought Musicbox can only rip audio CDs from the CD drive, and not transfer to the hard drive songs that are already encoded.

 

You are correct. I believe you'd have to take the MP3's and convert them to standard Audio CD's before ripping.. Which sorta defeats the purpose and of course you're converting an encoded compressed format back to WAV then reencoding again via Musicbox. Not a good thing IMO.

Having said this, I have had my G35 exactly 36hrs... So take it for what it's worth. LOL

 

Get a CF card - 4Gb is just fine - holds 500+ songs but remember that only the first 512 songs will show up.

Get a CF card reader for your laptop and copy all the songs you want - mp3, wmv and mp4 works fine.

 

Important follow up question:

Does the 2008 Sedan also limit the number of songs to 512?

If it does not, is there a way to be able to convert to the new software so that our 2007's can also read all of the songs off of bigger CF cards?

 

AFAIK there were no changes made to the SoW other than adding the ipod input.

 

2GB are just about perfect for 512 songs. Just think about it, 4MB per song (roughly) multiply by 500 comes out around 2000MB which is very close 2GB.

 

You are right...just realized that I have 767 songs on my 4Gb CF card but only able to see 512 songs....crap....

 

Don't think the firmware support more than 1 GB data, I put in 2GB CF card, only half the songs are being read. pity.....