Ok, I know, I know, I'm probably late to the party. After a month, and 1200+ miles, I finally burned an mp3 disc to try in the car.
All I can say is, Dude! What took you so long?
This is the first mp3 capable stereo I have had in a car, and frankly, I don't know why I didn't do this before! One disc, 7 cds on one disc, nearly 8 1/2 hours worth of tunes! Incredible!

mac :)

My prior car had this, but it was a single CD player. I currently have 6 MP3 CDs in my car. It was GREAT for road trips (two significant ones so far)

this is my first MP3 car too. I love it. At first I was half impressed because it was showing track 001. Then I noticed you can change the display and up came the artist and title. Very nice! The part for me that bites a bit is I bought some songs off iTunes, so those won't go on a disc (short of burning a music CD and reimporting as MP3). Now I get what ever I can from Amazon (DRM free MP3 files). It would be nice to have full ipod action

this is my first MP3 car too. I love it. At first I was half impressed because it was showing track 001. Then I noticed you can change the display and up came the artist and title. Very nice! The part for me that bites a bit is I bought some songs off iTunes, so those won't go on a disc (short of burning a music CD and reimporting as MP3). Now I get what ever I can from Amazon (DRM free MP3 files). It would be nice to have full ipod action

Daemon Tools. You can burn a "virtual" CD, then rerip it. No need to waste CDs. There are also tons of tools to strip the DRM out of iTunes tracks and re-encode to MP3.

my wife had it in her fusion 6 disc mp3 and it's enough to make me leave the ipod at home. I have 6 mp3's in the player right now artist and title info and the folder list helps you search different albums without disturbing the song.

Exactly. I have no idea why people are so obsessed with getting MP3 players (or as some just call them now, "ipods") in their cars. A few MP3 CD's can hold plenty of music. Less crap in the vehicle, the better!

Not to mention you typically get MUCH better music quality this way.

Anyone find a way to have it randomly jump across disc's? It'd be nice if they'd start putting storage devices in cars so you could just copy your mp3 collections to the unit itself and do away with the cd players all together. MP3 DVD support would have been awesome.

Anyone find a way to have it randomly jump across disc's? It'd be nice if they'd start putting storage devices in cars so you could just copy your mp3 collections to the unit itself and do away with the cd players all together. MP3 DVD support would have been awesome.

They do. Chrysler products have the "My Gig" Infotainment system that has an on board hard drive. Ford has the "Sync: system. Same thing there. I think most of the higher end Japanese brands have on board hard drives as well.

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The last gen GM minivans had PhatNoise as an option, similar concept I think - built in hard drive.

Exactly. I have no idea why people are so obsessed with getting MP3 players (or as some just call them now, "ipods") in their cars. A few MP3 CD's can hold plenty of music. Less crap in the vehicle, the better!

Completely agree! Recordable CDs are dirt cheap and can hold lots of tracks. My last car had the same 6-disc MP3 capability and I burned a few "favorites" compilation discs, which are now playing in the G8. No fuss remembering to bring the MP3 Player with me and plug it into the AUX and power. In the 4+ years I've been enjoying this feature I've re-burned my favorites playlist CDs about 3 times. When new tunes arrive I just add to my MP3 player phone or burn a new disc. At the moment I have 4 different genre CDs and a 5th with assorted new stuff. They all get cycled in "random by disc" as my tastes change. The combination of a 6-disc MP3 player (lazy automatic personal music selection) and an AUX-In (for when I am feeling motivated to hook stuff up, or have a copilot) is a perfect setup for me.

I listen to podcasts, so I'm getting probably 10 new things a day and listen to about that many as well. Everything is automatic, they go right to my ipod, so it would be nice to be able to plug it in to the car an see the info on the screen and navigate the ipod. It's all about taking your stuff with you. If you get new music, then you have to reburn discs where as the ipod will be updated. I see the MP3 CDs as a back up so I don't have to suffer through the same crap over and over again on the radio.

I listen to podcasts, so I'm getting probably 10 new things a day and listen to about that many as well. Everything is automatic, they go right to my ipod, so it would be nice to be able to plug it in to the car an see the info on the screen and navigate the ipod. It's all about taking your stuff with you. If you get new music, then you have to reburn discs where as the ipod will be updated. I see the MP3 CDs as a back up so I don't have to suffer through the same crap over and over again on the radio.

I'm 100% AGAINST having the connection in my car be proprietary... Screw apple and their crappy iPod

The last gen GM minivans had PhatNoise as an option, similar concept I think - built in hard drive.

It is available in the cadillac (http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/model/gallery.jsp?primary=4&model=cts&year=2008&nid=1&sid=0&id=3&secondary=0&evar10=CTS_MODEL_HOMEPAGE_FEATUREVIDEO_AVAILABLE%2 040%20GB%20INTERNAL%20HARD%20DRIVE)...

I'm 100% AGAINST having the connection in my car be proprietary... Screw apple and their crappy iPod

Good thing it isn't proprietary. Anything works in there - it's basically a headphone type connector.

I just tried an MP3 disc today and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with the system. I had an OEM 6-disc mp3 capable changer in my 2005 Mustang but it wasn't even close to being as nice as this.

Good thing it isn't proprietary. Anything works in there - it's basically a headphone type connector.


Did you bother reading the post I quoted? He said he wanted the iPod interface through the radio...

I guess i am different than all of you. i have mp3 cds that i use, but i also love my ipod bc i can put as many songs as it will hold (something like a "bazillion" i think), plug it into my FX and listen to anything i want from the ipod in whatever order i want. the random feature is something that the cd's cant keep up with yet by you cant random fron one cd to another very fast if at all yet.

I'm 100% AGAINST having the connection in my car be proprietary... Screw apple and their crappy iPod

Hater... (must own a zune :whine:) I'm happy we at least have the aux in jack.

They could have done it like many MFGs do and charge me. BMW for instance charge $400 for ipod/usb integration. The big screen in the G8 is begging to show the album art, title, and artist on the screen. I would have paid $400 in a minute for an ipod integration kit.

Hater... (must own a zune :whine:) I'm happy we at least have the aux in jack.


No, I buy QUALITY, which MS and Apple have yet to produce. They both have pure craptastic sound output. I have a Creative Labs Zen and an Archos PMP. Both are a million times better and cheaper to boot.

Hater... (must own a zune :whine:) I'm happy we at least have the aux in jack.

They could have done it like many MFGs do and charge me. BMW for instance charge $400 for ipod/usb integration. The big screen in the G8 is begging to show the album art, title, and artist on the screen. I would have paid $400 in a minute for an ipod integration kit.

Me too!

My parents have 3 Beemers and 2 have the I-pod hookup and bluetooth. AWESOME is all I can say. Listen to music as well as use the I-Drive to navigate the I-Pod and then when a call comes in the bluetooth works.

Ipod Blows. Listen without borders rock a Iaudio.

OK, After reading some good posts on this forum about MP3's. I decided tonight to collect all the MP3's on this computer and burn them to a disk. I like the Idea of using a CD and getting the IPOD, adapter cord and power cord out of my car.

Question is: Gathering up these files, I noticed that some of them are MP4 files and a few were named something like MP4A. Will the G8 play these files or must I convert them first? Thanks for any assistance

I do believe you will have to convert.

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OK, After reading some good posts on this forum about MP3's. I decided tonight to collect all the MP3's on this computer and burn them to a disk. I like the Idea of using a CD and getting the IPOD, adapter cord and power cord out of my car.

Question is: Gathering up these files, I noticed that some of them are MP4 files and a few were named something like MP4A. Will the G8 play these files or must I convert them first? Thanks for any assistance

Search for Doubletwist on google. Great software.

OK, After reading some good posts on this forum about MP3's. I decided tonight to collect all the MP3's on this computer and burn them to a disk. I like the Idea of using a CD and getting the IPOD, adapter cord and power cord out of my car.

Question is: Gathering up these files, I noticed that some of them are MP4 files and a few were named something like MP4A. Will the G8 play these files or must I convert them first? Thanks for any assistance

You're going to have to "transcode" those files, meaning converting them to MP3. If those tracks were bought on iTunes, you won't be able to do this easily. There *is* software that can do it, but I'll warn you, its illegal to do so (not that you'll get caught). Gotta love Apple (sarcasm)

You know you can burn to CD-RW's and the radio reads them just fine. This way you can update the CD without burning a new one.

Search for Doubletwist on google. Great software.

Thanks and I tried this but this software has some issues! Most important of them is, I have maybe 1000 music files but it found 27. It apparently only looks in the folder that itunes created. It does not look like you can point it to a specific folder/files. Does anyone know of a better software?

I too, have quite a few CDs with MP3s on them.. It is very nice to have a stock stereo that can play them..

However, I still listen to what's on my iPhone through my stereo more often than not, but that's because of the podcasts that I listen to on the way to and from work. When I want to listen to tunes, generally I will flip back to my CDs.

Thanks and I tried this but this software has some issues! Most important of them is, I have maybe 1000 music files but it found 27. It apparently only looks in the folder that itunes created. It does not look like you can point it to a specific folder/files. Does anyone know of a better software?

There is a way, my files are on a network share and it converted them on that share. I'll look when I get home and follow up. It takes some time to find everything as I thought the same thing at first.

This isn't illegal software either as one poster pointed out. The software essentially plays the song in some fasion and captures it to mp3. It doesn't "crack" the protection which would be illegal. Its the same as copying itunes to a cd and then cutting them back to mp3's only a heck of a lot quicker. I think they cover this on the site.

This isn't illegal software either as one poster pointed out. The software essentially plays the song in some fasion and captures it to mp3. It doesn't "crack" the protection which would be illegal. Its the same as copying itunes to a cd and then cutting them back to mp3's only a heck of a lot quicker. I think they cover this on the site.

Which is illegal. Its circumventing copy protection. Like I said before, no big deal, because you won't get caught EVER.

iTunes makes it the EASIEST to convert YOUR music. Just burn a Cd as an audio CD then import that CD as a MP3. Done. No new software, no quality loss, just a little time. Converting Napster files was a pain and quality sucked. Had to really tweak the eq to get any bass.

iTunes makes it the EASIEST to convert YOUR music. Just burn a Cd as an audio CD then import that CD as a MP3. Done. No new software, no quality loss, just a little time. Converting Napster files was a pain and quality sucked. Had to really tweak the eq to get any bass.

You can also use Daemon Tools (virtual CD/DVD drive) to burn to, then rip from. It stores an ISO file on your computer, which is an image of the CD and then you can do what you want to do with iTunes. No need to waste CDs. If you're going to do that, may as well just burn the CDs and listen to them in the car.

You can convert your purchased iTunes music that way as well. Strips all the DRM crap and then it play everywhere.:drink:

in what program do you make the cd? Im reading the manual and it says that it has to be in .m3u or .wpl extention WTF?

Any help would be appreciated!

in what program do you make the cd? Im reading the manual and it says that it has to be in .m3u or .wpl extention WTF?

Any help would be appreciated!

I don't know anything about those formats, but if you have your music ripped to MP3 then you can simply burn a CD from boring old Windows. No extra program required.

All my music CDs are ripped to MP3s with Windows Media Player or iTunes. I refuse to buy DRM tracks from any online music store, especially iTunes. DRM is bull****. Excuse rant :)

All my MP3s are organized in my music folder by artist/album. I just drag the albums or selected tracks to my CD drive:

Windows will burn data CDs by simply dragging files or folders to your CD or DVD drive icon. Insert a blank CD in the drive, right-click on it and select "burn to disc."

Ta-da, you have a G8 compatible music CD. I have CDs with over 50 tracks in high quality format. Brilliant!

Any questions? I'd be happy to help.

*.m3u and *.wpl are the supported extensions for playlists. Read the manual again.

*.m3u and *.wpl are the supported extensions for playlists. Read the manual again.

YES SIR! lol

I got it anyway

Just thought i would throw this out there............i burned a data disc of all my 160 mp3's and and put it in to see if it would play and surprinsingly enough it plays all of them, i just push the random button and now i never have to change cd's

Wasn't the 2009 G8 suppose to come with HMI ? I'm pretty sure this was suppose to come standard. Maybe MY09's will have them, which would allow you to link your iPod directly. Which would be nice considering even my 07 Scion TC has this. I personally prefer my iPod over stupid mp3 cd's. Why would I want to copy/move mp3 files to new cds all the time, when i can just have all 20,000 songs set to random or listen to whatever i want whenever i want.
So anyone know what's going on with the HMI ?