dbs600

Placed a deposit on a 2014 IS350 AWD F Sport with Nav today.

Can CD's be stored to our cars' harddrives, so we need not insert a CD every time?

Thanks!

RA040224

I don't think so. At least I can't remember anything like that when I browsed the manuals. I suggest you buy a usb memory stick (a short one, it has to fit when the arm rest is down, no longer than an inch) and rip your cd's to that.

AMNss

The car has a harddrive ? What is the capacity of this harddrive ?

jhs82

No. Use a smal USB drive instead.

jhs82

By the way, if you where thinking about the drive that stores the navigation maps, they are stored at a SD-micro card located behind the ML-plate beneath the CD-slot.

dbs600

Argh; alright; I had hoped to 'rip' everything directly to the car, as I've done in my other cars that have hard drives. I do not have music on a compute, flash drive or ipod / iphone...

I know it sounds crazy, that I've placed an order for a car and I don't know answers to these questions, but does the car have a single, in-dash CD player or is there a 6 disc changer somewhere?

The website and brochure are HORRIBLE.

enoren

6-disc changer.

dbs600

That's an in-dash changer, right?

azmojo

The 3IS does NOT have a disc changer. That is history. Bluetooth, USB, iPhone interface, and hard drives are the future.

LeJehuty

Just get one of Small, and you won't even realize its there.

dbs600

Huh? I'm confused. Are you saying the 2014 IS350 (w/ Nav) does not have capacity for 6 CD's at once? What does it have? A single in-dash CD player? And, to confirm, it doesn't have a hard drive to which I can store CD's, right?

Right, but how do I go about getting the music onto the flash drive? If I plug the flash drive into the car, can I rip CD's directly to the flash drive through the car? (I don't have music saved digitally anywhere - don't have it on my computers or iPhone - don't even have an iPod or MP3 player).

Bass Mech

I prefer to listen to Pandora, I gave up on XM because the bit rates are too low and the sound quality is not even as good as any decent fm radio station.
I don't get the point of buying music anymore in cd, iTunes, or other format. too many new artists to keep up with,, I just prefer to pay the 30.00 per year and listen to Pandora commercial free and let someone else DJ the music for me.

Tone2002

I was surprised that the 3IS even had a cd player, but I don't use cds so I'm not sure if it has the capacity for six discs.

As someone said, time for everyone to move to the future of USB, Bluetooth, or Aux cords and let the cd players go.

jhs82

Right. Single disc CD or DVD depending on which audio system you choose. Since the ability to stream by bluetooth came, CD chargers has faded away. And there is no hard drive you can access.

You have to rip the CD to your computer and then transfer the files to a flash drive.

RA040224

For ripping CD's on a Windows computer, use a German program called "Exact Audio Copy" (the latest version is 1.0 Beta 3). Based on the level of your "audiophileness", rip to MP3 (less audiophile) or Wav/Uncompressed (more audiophile). A Wav file will use about 10 times the disk space (about 700 mb for a 74 minute recording) then the compressed and lossy mp3 format. But the Wav file contain the data exact as it was on the CD. The compression algorithms of the mp3 format are so good these days, that if you choose a high bitrate (320Kbps) you probably won't hear any difference between mp3 or wav.

BUT; and this is a big but: I don't know if the audio system will actually play Wav files. I suggest you rip the same record twice, once as wav and once as mp3. Try both. If it can't play Wav, use the mp3, if it can, listen to both and make a decision about the quality you want.