timshuwy

OK... I just realized this past week (after over 5 months) that there IS a CD/DVD player in the glove compartment. For some reason, I thought that the only ways to play music & videos was via Phone or memory card.
hahahaha
Just started importing some of our favorite CDs into the Jukebox.

hayde_bre

Did you code your Q7, how are you able to import your CDs?

timshuwy

No, i did not code the Q7... just put the CD in, and chose the menu option to RIP them into the car.. now they are there without the physical CD in the player.

hayde_bre

Hmm.. Did you get your Q in Canada? We discussed this issue here. I am still baffled how you are able to rip CDs into MMI On-Board storage?

hitchens97

Btw is three any advantages to ripping via the CD player vs just putting your music on an SD card

hammer458

Brimstone

You can create playlists for this. I've just done it with windows media player, but I think you can just make a simple text file with relative paths to each file on a line. (the other alternative would be just do folders as playlists, you can prepend the file with a number just use leading zeros to be safe or likely it will alpha sort rather than numeric. (ie 1 - < name>, 10 - <name>, 11 - <name>, 2 - <name> ) instead of ( 01, 02, 10, 11)

I'll mention the following caveats with playlists because whoever wrote this software clearly never used it:
1. when you start the car you will see the 'loading' screen about 98% of the time until the track changes.
2. it seems like if you have a playlist named "myfavs" (or w/e) and you update it, the car must read the original one into cache and will not process the updated playlist, if anyone knows how to reset this I'd appreciate it, otherwise renaming to "myfavs1" fixes the problem
2 more issues not playlist specific:
3. the cd sounds better to my ears (its subtle and I don't think I could identify in a vacuum but switching back and forth between the same song I can hear a difference)
4. there's a 1 second or so pause between tracks, only noticeable if you're listening to a cd where the tracks segue together. (eg: Dark side of the moon)

Rjim

Owner's manual page 227.

Gani

5 months???, you are better than me. i discovered mine after 22 months. we watched a movie in the Q7 with my wife in the forest last week

hayde_bre

Did you check the link above? It says you cannot do it. I actually tried it myself against below notice, and there is no option to import CDs when you put a store-bought CD into the CD drive. Could be different if they were created/burned at Home, though.