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Discussion in '458 Italia/488/F8' started by Silverstone458, Feb 5, 2011.

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  1. Silverstone458

    Silverstone458 Rookie

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    #1 Silverstone458, Feb 5, 2011
    just want to know if im alone with this issue. when i want to burn my cd's into the hard drive it does not ask me what i would like to call the cd, it just goes streight to the burning mode. i currently have 11 cd's all called the came (01 18 1981) . does any one know how to change that as the manual has nothing on it. very frustrating when i want to hear a certain cd. dealer has not heard of the issue.
     
  2. LouB

    LouB Formula 3

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    #2 LouB, Feb 6, 2011
    I have the same problem. The manual a joke. It also takes forever to load a CD into the HHD, I'm impressed you did 11.
     
  3. jokr

    jokr Karting

    Nov 30, 2010
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    #3 jokr, Feb 7, 2011
    I don't have my car yet, but I plan on loading the hard drive via the USB - so doing all of the CD ripping at home, and then doing an upload to the car via a USB key or portable hard drive. Maybe you could try that?
     
  4. fuse

    fuse Formula Junior

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    #4 fuse, Feb 7, 2011
    I've loaded quite a bit of music on via USB and that works great. The menu system and labeling is not very clear, but it works fine.

    You can make playlists which is nice. I've not spent the time with the car on the stereo yet, just enough to get some music on, and random all or random songs within an artist.
     
  5. DM18

    DM18 F1 Rookie

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    #5 DM18, Feb 7, 2011
    Exactly
     
  6. raclaims

    raclaims Formula Junior

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    #6 raclaims, Feb 7, 2011
    Does any one know how big the hard drive is?
     
  7. ferrari270

    ferrari270 Karting

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    #7 ferrari270, Feb 7, 2011
    maybe 20-30 GB i think
     
  8. fuse

    fuse Formula Junior

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    #8 fuse, Feb 8, 2011
    Before I loaded anything it reported like ~25gb available storage. I think it is a 30gb storage and actual formatted and available storage is always less, then subtract software that is probably located on the HD.
     
  9. REMIX

    REMIX Two Time F1 World Champ

    May 25, 2005
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    #9 REMIX, Feb 8, 2011
    Can't you just plug an iPod into this thing? Way easier IMO. I don't understand the point of a hard drive based system in a car...ANY car.

    RMX
     
  10. raclaims

    raclaims Formula Junior

    Jun 6, 2007
    493
    Northern NJ
    #10 raclaims, Feb 8, 2011
    iPod adapter is like a $900 option

    I feel the exact opposite...why hook up an iPod when you can load your music on the HD

    In a few of my cars I hook up a nano and leave it in the car all the time as a pseudo hard drive. A built in hard drive to me is a far better option
     
  11. REMIX

    REMIX Two Time F1 World Champ

    May 25, 2005
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    #11 REMIX, Feb 8, 2011
    The reason would be because you can take the music from car to car, add or subtract tracks and arrange playlists on a big screen with a mouse and a keyboard. If you have a USB flash drive you can buy MP3s online and load them that way, I guess. Seems like a lot of work.

    RMX
     
  12. raclaims

    raclaims Formula Junior

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    #12 raclaims, Feb 8, 2011
    I back up all my music to an external hard drive which happens to be USB
    So all I need to do is bring it to the car and add whatever I want

    I guess to each his own but I think it's great that it has a hard drive
     
  13. Silverstone458

    Silverstone458 Rookie

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    #13 Silverstone458, Feb 8, 2011
    Last edited: Feb 8, 2011
    i took the i pod option but unfortunatly i have a black berry!!!
    so much easier to just take a cd and down load it and its done
    i will try to down load through usb but very un convenient but not my first choice. i had a maserati grantourismo and it was super easy to operate.

    i dont see what i do wrong? i insert the cd into the drive, i go to the menu to burn cd and just down loads it, nothing about naming it (no rocket science)

    spent all this money on a hi fi system to have something that works not something that i have to find a alternative solution to make it work. very annoying


    i just feel that there is a step missing

    i will go to ferrari tomorrow and try to work it out with them . maybe another software upgrade is necessary?

    i will keep you posted tomorrow
     
  14. PAULSPEED

    PAULSPEED Rookie

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    #14 PAULSPEED, Feb 8, 2011
    My i pod has 73 gigs or 37 days of music. I
    still have more songs to load. A car hard drive will
    not do that is that small.

    I have to burn MP3's on to disk for my Porsche.
    Paul
     
  15. Silverstone458

    Silverstone458 Rookie

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    #15 Silverstone458, Feb 12, 2011
    i was told to reff to page 12-13 of the manual
     
  16. ferrari270

    ferrari270 Karting

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    #16 ferrari270, Feb 12, 2011
    you can at least charge your Iphone
     

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