Well, I just want to get as much info before I go in to my local dealer tomorrow to wheel-and-deal for a '10 xS.

Question is, how do you add music to the hard drive? Will it copy from a CD, or do you need a flash drive of some sorts?

I have a feeling I'm going to have to do some digging for a few of my old keychain flash drives. They are around here somewhere... lol

 

From a CD only. Just put the CD in and hit the record button and it rips it to the HD. No flash drive.

 

There's a check box that asks if you want CD's to be recorded all the time upon insertion. I believe it takes about 10 minutes per CD. I'm recording at 132.

 

Ah nice... even store bought CDs? It'll encode/rip them? if so, are there bitrate settings, etc?

 

No bitrate settings.

 

Damn... Forget it then! lol jk

sounds like it's an easy process then. Thanks everyone!

 

Mine has Bitrate settings. 2010 G37 Sedan Journey w/premium no nav.
you have an option for 128, 192 and 320 i think.

 

WTF??? The '08 doesn't. That sucks.

 

With the 2010 Nav, you only have 2. A maximum of 132

 

Hmmm. Sweet. I'm picking up a '10 this weekend.

Can you save store bought CDs to the HD?

 

Well, it's so easy. Please forget I ever started this thread! lol

 

Does the 09 have this feature? I dont have NAV if that matters.

 

Are you sure Jeremy? Even my 07 offers ripping at different bit rates.

 

Maybe I'm just missing it somewhere? I'll check.

 

'09 has 2 bitrate settings: 105 or 132 kbps (default). The setting is in the Musicbox menu just below the Automatic Recording setting.