Ripping my CD's to flash drive for hope to be built "SOON" C-7. Question, (posed by my GEEK helper) does the new head unit support FLAC and/or Apple Lessloss file formats? Or, just rip them to MP3 format at the highest bit rate, and call it a day?
Thanks!

 

From the MyLink FAQ:

So, no, it doesn't support any of the lossless codecs. Best to just compress them down into MP3s and save the FLACs on your computer at home.

 

I have read on Camaro forums that Mylink supports wma lossless. I have not personally tested this since my Camaro is a 2010 before Mylink was available.

 

 

Glad to hear this part.
I wonder how big a USB drive will be supported?
I've got 80gb on my current player (Zune)

 

this is probably a dumb question but can someone clarify as I haven't used anything but radio OR CD's until present. Do we simply save the mp3's we want to play onto a USB stick and then plug the USB stick into the C7 console to start playing?

 

Yep, that's it. The only requirement is that the USB drive be formatted FAT32 which most are anyway. If not, you can reformat it in Windows.

 

cool, that sounds much better than burning CD's

 

I love it! You can get a TON of music on these things.

 

Good afternoon.
What do you think the largest SD Card size is that the C7 will support? Any thoughts based on other GM vehicles that support SD Card?

I want to purchase the largest SD card it will support before I receive the vehicle. That way I can slap it in at the dealer and listen on the way home. Unless I'm to busy listening to the awesome exhaust that is.
Thank you

 

128gb

 

. I don't think there is a limit of size on the current ones, although I haven't tried anything over 32GB. There is a display limit of 10,000 songs.e USB stick takes a while to index. I've been told on the current version, with a lot of songs, it will take a while to index, but should still play while indexing.

 

Surely the Bose stereo allows us to just hook up an iPod?

 

Uses BOTH USB and SD cards.

FRom the original brochure:

CHEVROLET MYLINK
Corvette Stingray will incorporate the simple, flexible, yet extremely powerful Chevrolet MyLink3 system that can fully integrate information from several Bluetooth®4-enabled mobile devices, USB ports, SD cards, MP3 players and an audio input jack. An 8-inch LCD central display touch-screen (that lowers for device storage with USB port inside) provides access
to third-party music services such as Pandora® and allows for easy, undistracted access to a broad range of functions — including many enhanced OnStar®5 features and 3-D navigation.

I prefer the SD cards since they disappear into the panel into which they are inserted and don't leave something sticking out to get knocked off.

As a side question, on my current MB, which uses SD cards, I organize the music on the card in folders with each folder containing one CD, one artist or one playlist...depending on my intention. The MB COMAND system then displays these folders and the content on the screen for making a selection. Neat way to organize and access particular music. Any idea whether MyLink does this?

 

I would certainly stick to mp3 over itunes AAC format. BTW, you can change the setting in itunes to import to mp3. I would do that because later you can use those files anywhere vs limited AAC files. I had many AAC files & finally opted to import them again as mp3's. Personally, I think itunes uses the AAC format for default to keep you using their products

I would also suggest you make sure you create mp3 files using 192 kbps or higher. The higher the kbps the better quality. For example, itunes sets the kbps to 128 by default. Some claim they cannot hear a poor sound quality using 128 kbps, others insist they can. If using itunes, go to edit, preferences, general, then import settings to alter setting. Most players have settings for kbps, you just need to change it before importing music.

Mp3 is typically inferior to CD quality (they remove data to save space). Some feel CD's are simply old school. To me, audio quality matters. I know guys that install up to $100,000 stereo set ups in cars. They hate mp3 altogether. Everything is a compromise. To me, an easy compromise is using a higher kbps setting and suffer by it using a little more storage on your usb or other storage device.

Maybe a good experiment would be to import a song using 128 kbps and then import it again using a higher kbps setting. Listen to both in your car (you can burn the mp3's to a CD if needed to do this) & see for yourself if it makes a difference to your ears. I think it is better to do this (will take you maybe 10 mins to do it) rather than importing all your music at a kbps setting and later regret it causing you to import them again at another setting.

These links might help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/40...y-observations

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/...-test-128-320/

 

I prefer MP3s encoded at 192-bit or higher. From what I understand, the C7's audio system is supposed to be pretty killer so bumping them to 256-bit would probably sound pretty great.

I use Spotify and have my music stream and save in their HD Audio format. I've played the music over lots of different sound systems and it sounds really good. I think I'll be sticking with that.

 

I was making an assumption in my reply the person may not be aware of uploading at different kbps since he was use to replying on CD's. The 256 bits you mentioned sounds like a good bet.

 

Actually if it does support all of the AAC spec that is what you want to use because there is an AAC Loseless in the AAC format.

 

Hmm, you got me thinking.....

http://www.stereophile.com/features/308mp3cd

 

Yeah, the difference between a 256 bit CD rip and the CD itself is pretty small. It's very hard to hear the difference, especially in a stock car system.