HDD music ??

[speyrod]

I have searched MUD and the web. I am looking to put some music on the hdd. Is there anyway to bulk load music? Where is the HDD located? I would be happy to put in a large ssd drive and preload if it's possible.

I have an 09, so no audio bluetooth. I could look closer into the dongle and aux jack solution. But then I need to look into USB power and don't want cables strung all over.

 

[Samuraj]

i don't think it has one ....no HDD in my 14 , and bluetooth audio sucks ... only iPod sir !

 

[speyrod]

It looks like I can record ~2000 tracks per the manual to the HDD. But it appear they need to go in disk by disk.

 

[EverywhereBear]

It looks like I can record ~2000 tracks per the manual to the HDD. But it appear they need to go in disk by disk.

That is what I had to do - disk by disk. But I did this when I first got the truck 7 years ago. Since then installed the VAIS tech module that allows me to connect my phone and play music.

 

[TeCKis300]

Yup, disc by disc. It's an antiquated use case. I loaded some when I originally got the car. Heck, I don't even know where my CD's are any longer.

Streaming is the way to go. Not sure why BT gets a bad rap. Perhaps in earlier implementations with older cell phones and BT receivers. Many now are almost non-lossy and bit perfect and are no longer the the weak leak in the chain to make any quality difference. That's to say you'll never hear any lossed quality from BT.

 

[speyrod]

I think I'll look for a USB charging jack that can plug in place of the aux 3.5 and look to hide a dongle somewhere for the BT.

 

[grinchy]

I have a 2009 LX. It has phone Bluetooth but not audio. For a while I used a simple 3.5 mm cable but eventually moved to this Bluetooth adapter
It doesn’t have the phone profile so there is no unnecessary complication with the car device, and it has a legendary battery. I use it for 90 min a day and can’t remember when I charged it last. Maybe last month?

I do get an occasional ground loop when I charge and listen to the adapter. I get this charge and use the 3.5mm cable too, so I don’t blame the adapter

 

[razzyrazz]

Tidal app, download songs for offline listening and use aux cable with phone. Best Quality I can get in my 2011 LX.

 

[dnh1]

I have searched MUD and the web. I am looking to put some music on the hdd. Is there anyway to bulk load music? Where is the HDD located? I would be happy to put in a large ssd drive and preload if it's possible.

I have an 09, so no audio bluetooth. I could look closer into the dongle and aux jack solution. But then I need to look into USB power and don't want cables strung all over.

There is no way to bulk load. It doesn’t take that long to load discs. I had an ‘09 and as I recall it held about 2000 songs.

As you may know there are many cheap aftermarket Bluetooth alternatives that play through the headphone jack etc.

 

[KLF]

I can't figure out WTH you guys are talking about with this HDD thing. Neither my '11 or my '15 had any such thing, I checked today. Must be an LX only feature?

I have a really small 64GB USB flash drive with about 10 GB of music loaded, stuck into the USB port on my console. I have the same music stored in my phone that I play via Bluetooth, in a random order. The music sounds noticeably better through the USB connection, but the interface on the head unit is terrible, very slow and awkward, so I just use my phone.

 

[speyrod]

I can't say if this is an LX thing or not but my 09 has one. Part of my issue is I have a couple old iphones that I can't back up to itunes to move the music otherwise I have a significant on a external drive.

 

[TeCKis300]

This won't solve your issue directly, but perhaps will give you an all-in-one workable solution.

Install a GROM-USB3 adapter to your LX. There's many rebranded devices of the same type, but this is what I have in my LX.

It'll add BT and USB audio input functions to your stereo. I primarily use my BT to stream these days. But I also have a 32GB USB thumbdrive plugged in that has my whole archived audio file collection for when I'm traversing backcountry that doesn't have cellular.

Depending on what type of audio file you have, it should work directly.

I also have music ripped to my HD but only a couple hundred tracks. And 6x re-authored DVD's, each with 4-5 kids movies in the changer. Basically, saying I have too many sources of entertainment all at my fingertips!