Bought a new CD ???? - it plays but has no track info or album art. The Columbus won't recognise it when I try to import to HDD.

Very odd.

I tried to import a CD to HDD recently and it failed... Presumed it was DRM/copy protect related and that you couldn't rip CDs to the hard drive in the SIII... Maybe I was wrong??

Commercial CD audio is PCM stereo which is not a supported external audio format (as in MP3, WAV, FLAC, etc) nor is there a built-in codec to convert it (or any other type of data conversion for that matter).

Transfer of audio files from CD or DVD is for homemade discs whose files are already in one of the supported formats.

The fact that your CD doesn't show artwork or track info is most likely because that CD is not in the Gracenote database stored in Columbus.

Thanks both, thought as much. Although this must only be prevalent for new CDs as I have a number of older ones (2-3 years old) which import fine.

Just rip them on your computer Coops and stick them on a USB to import that way. You can add album art and the album info either via the ripping app (depending what you use) or else with an mp3 tag utility, many of which can do it automatically from the internet. 

Import?

 

Does the Columbus have internal storage?

 

I've not seen that referenced anywhere

Import?

 

Does the Columbus have internal storage?

 

I've not seen that referenced anywhere

 

Have you not read the manual (really not a fatuous question)? It's called Jukebox and is about 10GB of SSD space in the unit that you can store audio files on.

Just rip them on your computer Coops and stick them on a USB to import that way. You can add album art and the album info either via the ripping app (depending what you use) or else with an mp3 tag utility, many of which can do it automatically from the internet. 

 

Don't have a CD drive anymore  :no: But got round it.

Cheers Rainmaker, I had a quick search of the manual but there was no reference to hard drive or SSD I didn't know it was call jukebox.

Cheers Rainmaker, I had a quick search of the manual but there was no reference to hard drive or SSD I didn't know it was call jukebox.

 

Was that the car manual or the Columbus manual though?