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Edcase:
 I've just had a version C unit fitted by Darren - fantastic guy and fantastic system!

 however, I was hoping it would be my digital music saviour what with the hard drive, so I don't have to go to the hassle and the mess of plumbing in an ipod.

 however, a couple of issues I am coming up against which look like this is not going to be the case:

1/ although the hard drive is 30 GB I'm actually only seeing 18 GB. I'm assuming this is because I have the GPS maps loaded onto the hard drive?

2/ however the bigger problem is a significant amount of my music collection is in m4a format. given that none of the songs in that format seemed to play on the system today I'm also guessing that it doesn't support it. if that is indeed the case, has anyone tried converting m4a to mp3 like this: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/32096

 thanks
Ed

markfive:
Yep, 18Gb available for music storage - the RNS510 disk layout ringfences 12Gb for GPS maps and operating system files (I think the split is 10+2), with the remainder of the disk available for music storage. MP3 and WMA are the only supported formats.

If memory serves, iTunes does make the M4A -> MP3 conversion fairly straightforwards - the instructions you linked to looked right - but there are other (free) utilities that will do this, such as this one. In any case, if you want to preserve as much of the quality as possible you need to match the bitrates from the input file to the output file.

Cheers, Mark.

Lyons:
I had to convert all my songs from MP4 and AAC to MP3 when i got my RNS too. I used these instructions;

http://askbobrankin.com/convert_itunes_to_mp3_format.html

Edcase:
thanks!

Saint Steve:

--- Quote from: markfive on February 10, 2010, 11:55:37 pm ---Yep, 18Gb available for music storage - the RNS510 disk layout ringfences 12Gb for GPS maps and operating system files (I think the split is 10+2), with the remainder of the disk available for music storage. MP3 and WMA are the only supported formats.

If memory serves, iTunes does make the M4A -> MP3 conversion fairly straightforwards - the instructions you linked to looked right - but there are other (free) utilities that will do this, such as this one. In any case, if you want to preserve as much of the quality as possible you need to match the bitrates from the input file to the output file.

Cheers, Mark.



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WMA's dont play on the Rns aswell. Only Mp3's

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