Standard audio CD player

[lsnhc]

The standard audio system has a one disc CD player. it was my understanding that I could download the CD's to the hard drive, but nothing in the manual or on the screen discusses this or offers instructions.

Can this actually be done?

 

[FlySwatter]

The standard audio system has a one disc CD player. it was my understanding that I could download the CD's to the hard drive, but nothing in the manual or on the screen discusses this or offers instructions.

Can this actually be done?

To my knowledge, you can't copy a factory CD to the hard drive because the head unit doesn't support "ripping" CDs. If you have a CD with mp3 files on it, it would probably copy them just fine, since it is only a file copy operation. I have not tried that myself, as I used a flash drive to copy my music instead via the USB port.

 

[lsnhc]

My last 2 cars, Infiniti M37X and Audi A6 both allowed downloading CD's onto the hard drive, so I just assumed that the Genesis offered the same feature.

 

[Alwaysforward]

No luck here either. Not possible from everything I have researched and tried. Going to copy mine onto a USB flash drive.

 

[Aquineas]

So wait, you can't go directly from CD to drive via the car, but is there any limitation with ripping the CD to MP3s and then copying it over to the HD? That does seem like a bit of an oversight. In Texas, CDs that are kept in the car have a tendency to melt sometimes. Not all the time, but I would imagine most Texas residents have at some point lost a CD to a summer interior.

 

[FlySwatter]

So wait, you can't go directly from CD to drive via the car, but is there any limitation with ripping the CD to MP3s and then copying it over to the HD? ...

Exactly so sir.

 

[PMCErnie]

My last 2 cars, Infiniti M37X and Audi A6 both allowed downloading CD's onto the hard drive, so I just assumed that the Genesis offered the same feature.

What you describe is called "ripping."