So the other day I was thinking of breaking out a few of my old CD's to listen to. I haven't even used my CD player since I bought my car 2 months ago. For the life of me I can't figure out how to insert more then 1 CD into the CD changer. Is it just me or am I loosing my mind? I just happen to have my original window sticker in my glove box to make sure my car came with it. and it says it does.

 

If you got the Prem package with nav it cuts the 6 disc to single disc. You'll still have the 6 buttons which threw me off too.

 

aw thats ghetto....

 

Just put them in and burn them to the hard drive.

 

Thats what I do.

Every time I go to get in the car I bring another CD with me, record it on the hard drive, and take it back in the house for safe keeping. I have about 50 cds on it so far.

 

s-one - 'ghetto?'

You obviously are TOTALLY MISSING THE PICTURE on one of the nicest features I have ever had in a car. You simply push the little 'record' icon on the screen while you are listening to your CD, and within five or ten minutes, while you are listening to one or two songs, the entire CD will be stored onto your Music Box disc where you can play it for the rest of your life if you wish, without ever having to have the CD in the car again.

And you can do this with DOZENS AND DOZENS of CDs (which I have), and never be bothered with having CDs lying around in your car again. With this Music Box system, I have many hundreds of songs at my fingertips, and, once I have used it to store a CD, I put the CD on a shelf at home, and never have to touch it again.

If this is 'ghetto', then I am all for 'ghetto.'

 

Fo Damn Shure HomeZ. I is Dittose with youz.

 

I don't know that I completely agree with Light on this one (although I find myself frightenedly in agreement with most of his thoroughly enjoyable ruminations on this forum.)

While I'm sure the Music Box feature (in its current incarnation) may be a great boon to some, for me....not so much.

I'll give a brief example.

I prefer to listen to "audio books." A recent purchase of a quite entertaining "Dresden Files" (Jim Butcher) audiobook is comprised of 12 CDs. Assuming I could find a way to order the 12 discreet CDs to a common compilation on Music Box, it would take me about 2 hours, sitting in the car, to transfer the contents. (Don't misunderstand, while I adore my Max, 1-2 hours in the driveway recording to my Music Box is a bit much for one book!) But for the sake of this example, lets say I did.

Fast forward a few years.

It is now time to get my "8th Gen." I would certainly like to "transfer" the contents of my Music Box to the new "nano-organic multi-terrabyte storage option" of the 8th Gen.

How would this occur?

There isn't a way (perhaps I missed a chapter or two in the manual) to perform this without tearing into my 7th Gen and ripping the HD out, putting it on a PC and (assuming there is a new way to populate the "new Music Box" via cable/flash drive/osmosis instead of also ripping it out of the new 8th Gen and copying the contents.)

If I had a multi-cd changer I could load it up with at least half of the novel before leaving the house (admittedly, my commute of 1.5 hours each way is probably atypical.) As it is today, I find the safer and quicker method (after I scared myself silly a few decades ago while trying to shuffle 8 tracks while driving) is to 1.) transfer to my CF or IPOD: 2.) purchase as MP3 CDs (which the Max plays with aplomb: ) or 3.) purchase my selections from someplace like Audible.com and place on my CF/IPOD.

So, great device/feature? It has potential, but until we can have alternative mechanisms for "loading/unloading" material from the MB, and with the exception of having used it to rip a cd of my niece's garage band, not quite right for (speaking for myself) primetime.

Lt

 

This is where I find an iPod or CF card ('09 only) or most any other USB connectible storage for a 2010 model to be a benefit. I have not used CDs in my car in about 3 years now because of my iPod. I know not everyone has an iPod but I recommend them just for the sake of being able to connect them to cars. They are nearly the de facto standard for portable music players at this point. This totally solves the problem of not being able to take your music or audio books with you when it is time to get a new car.

 

Too true and exactly what I do (re IPOD and CF.) I primarily use my IPOD as my fingers are a bit too "wide" to easily remove the CF, but I have a few GB on it.

 

Well I just found out about the music box record function. before this i was thinking that it was just a single disc and that was it. LOL

 

As LtLeary mentioned, there may be unusual or specific situations where the Music Box has a drawback, but for the average user (like me), life has never been this good. I think you will be very happy with this Music Box. Happy listening!


EDIT - At some point, you will reach the situation where it seems unwieldy to scan thru the album titles. This can be done by (surprise) dropping your right hand down several inches and rotating the right radio ****.

 

Nissan sure could have done much better with the menu system for the music box and the ipod menus too. It is too hard scan through to find what you want.

 

I thought it was just my senility causing me to have 'awkward moments' manipulating this gizmo.

 

When i started loading CD's on my hard drive i realize that every CD i have i upload to my itunes. Every song i have on my itunes gets downloaded to my ipod. I figure why not just use my ipod instead of loading all those CD's. The only way now i would download a song to the hard drive if its someone elses Cd and i'm not at home to upload it to my itunes, i just burn it to the hard drive. simple

 

is there a way to upload songs from your ipod to the Music Box. I couldn't for the life of me find that option. Also i know you can upload audio cds, can you upload mp3 cd's???

 

Nope sorry, no way to upload from the Ipod to the Music Box. Also it will not upload MP3 Cds to the Music Box.

The reason for all of this is because Apple, Nissan, and the Music Industry views their paying customers as thieves that might cheat them out of a $18 CD. With the way these copyright laws and Digitial Rights Mangement are nowadays, consider yourself lucky to have at least the option to store CDs on the Music Box in the first place.

 

thats what i figured, oh well not a biggie! still like the option of the music box!

 

Yep, just burn it to the hard drive, stick the CD in and press REC. should record a whole Album of 16 songs in 10 to 12 mins....I got so far 28 cds stored.

 

So if we have the premium Package you can have 6 Cds in the dash at once right?

 

Actually, I have mine set so it starts recording automatically every time I put in a new CD.

 

The 6cd option is removed on systems with the music box option.

 

Right (as usual). The primary reason for having a 6 CD option was to have more than one CD's worth of music available without having to constantly replace one CD with another. But with a Music Box that holds the music of umpteen dozens of CDs, only someone doing something very unusual would have need for the 6 CD option.