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Right. I've got a largish music library at home. All on my NAS drive the majority is ripped Apple Lossless.
I want to get the whole library into my Mrs' car (it's a 1 series bimmer with iDrive, USB input etc).
I think the best way of doing this is convert my music library to MP3, copy it to a USB stick and either use the External USB input in the car or copy the music to HDD in the car.
BUT it's the conversion to MP3 that is confusing me. I could do it in iTunes but then I get duplicates of everything. Pay money for MediaMonkey for on the fly sync / conversion to the USB stick? Other software to consider?
I suppose I could splash the cash on an iPod but it seems pointless if it's to be used JUST in the car where the playback functionality is already built in...
what version of the iDrive have you got, or how old id the car. If it has NBT (Next best Thing) as opposed to CIC, it will play lossless files, so plug a USB drive in and go..
Could you remote acess your NAS from your phone and play the music that way?
There is bound to be an app that will provide a decent user interface?
would be no point in having lossless as the data transmission would be massive and it would probably downscale it anyway.
I need to Caveat my previous though, i'm not sure if the Apple Lossles works or if only FLAC does in NBT equipped cars. I'm still annoyed at the very little connectivity for Android vs Apple in the bimmer..
Car is 14 reg. Not sure of the iDrive version.
Streaming not really an option.
I've got 1TB of lossless music. Which is why I want to sample down in the car. I can get it down to less than 64GB if I sample at 128 or 192kbps.
Can't DoubleTwist do this sort of thing?
Why cant you convert to MP3 using Apples software, transfer them over to USB, then delete the MP3's from your PC leaving you with only the lossless files?
I don't use Apple music/iTunes/Apple Ecosystem for music at all, so forgive me if that's a stupid question.
plyphon - MemberWhy cant you convert to MP3 using Apples software, transfer them over to USB, then delete the MP3's from your PC leaving you with only the lossless files?
I don't use Apple music/iTunes/Apple Ecosystem for music at all, so forgive me if that's a stupid question.
+1.
Presumably you set a destination folder? So if you set the destination folder to the USB drive, then there won't be any lasting MP3 storage on the computer?
As an aside, does your Wife really want all that music in the car though?
Is it not gonna be a pain/effort/danger scrolling through 64Gb of music to find 'that' album? Or would she just run it on random?
I have put an 8Gb stick in my Wife's car - I don't even think it's half full and there's more than enough choice in there for a decent journey. She'd be scrolling up & down all day long if I filled a 64Gb stick with music.
Cheers. I think the iTunes create MP3 and delete might be the option (I don't think you can set the destination folder - on the fly at least).
Good point about all the scrolling... But if I ask here what albums she does want I'll never get an answer!!!
That sounds like it might be a ball ache as you'll then have to extract every mp3 from every folder? I would try it in one album and see what you end up with. If it's
track1.aac
track1.mp3
track2.aac
track2.mp3
then I would look for another way as you'll be there forever trying to extract the files.
have you looked at some kind of aac>mp3 freeware converter?
Some links here:
http://www.any-audio-converter.com/aac-to-mp3-converter.php
http://listoffreeware.com/list-best-free-audio-converters/
I suspect you'd have to pay for this one:
http://www.movavi.com/support/how-to/how-to-convert-aac-to-mp3.html
looks like it's £25.
Cheers for those links I'll have a look later.
The copy shouldn't be a complete ballache. I expect the files will end up in the album directory but I think I can just search for *.mp3 recursively then do a copy onto my USB stick.
I think the answer is Apple Music.
You get your whole library in the cloud and can make offline playlists to play through the phone app. (or stream if you've got the bandwidth)
Freester - Member
Car is 14 reg. Not sure of the iDrive version.Streaming not really an option.
I've got 1TB of lossless music. Which is why I want to sample down in the car. I can get it down to less than 64GB if I sample at 128 or 192kbps.
in that case it's NBT which will support lossless. Best thing to do is get any old memory USB, stick a few versions on it and see what will play. Make sure that you update the cars software (go on line and download to the same USB and plug it in).