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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 586440" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I've been reading over the Navigation audio manual, as well as the links that bob provided regarding Audible. I can see how it could be easy to get confused over exactly what your car's system is supposed to support, especially if you are cross-reading info from various sources.</p><p></p><p>First off, from your manual, it makes it very clear what audio formats it supports. What it doesn't make clear, but perhaps should, is that it doesn't support DRM-protected music. And just to be clear... it's not just that it doesn't support DRM-protection, it simply CAN'T be authorized to support them.</p><p></p><p>Now one of the supported formats the manual lists is Audible.com. When I looked at Audible's website, the first thing I noticed is how they claim to be compatible with iTunes. I thought this seemed odd, and even now I think it's misleading. What they mean by "compatible" is that the content that they provide can be played back using iTunes, which is only available on a "regular" PC or Mac (or the iPhone/iPod Touch). That's all. This has nothing to do with your car.</p><p></p><p>And while your car's system is running on Windows CE (which is quite the joke of an OS), there is no actual iTunes app for it. If there was, and if your system had a method of connecting to the Internet, you could theoretically authorize it to play back your DRM-protected music. Unfortunately that's not so.</p><p></p><p>I think it's safe to say we all share your pain. Things SHOULD be easier than what they are, and this late into the 21st century they should be. Part of the problem here is DRM. It's overly complicated and forces too many compromises and hoops to jump through. Just to play some music. The other problem is lack of real innovation in the user interfaces of these devices. Nothing is truly easy to use, and with no one really TRYING to make things better, nothing will.</p><p></p><p>I think the car stereo industry is in need of a real shakedown. Just look at the cellphone industry... everyone was comfortable with cheap phones and kludgy interfaces until Apple came along and shook things up. Several months ago, Apple was rumored to be working with Volkswagen to make a special edition of the Beetle that was to feature several Apple technologies as a showcase for how things "should be". It supposedly has since been called off, but I'd bet good money that Apple still has something brewing in that area.</p><p></p><p>Anyways... what you should do is look over your music and see what is DRM-protected and what isn't. Copy over the stuff that isn't DRM-protected to a USB stick and then plug that into your car system. At least you can have that much on there. There are ways to strip the DRM off your music files, but unfortunately they can't be discussed in this forum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 586440, member: 38864"] I've been reading over the Navigation audio manual, as well as the links that bob provided regarding Audible. I can see how it could be easy to get confused over exactly what your car's system is supposed to support, especially if you are cross-reading info from various sources. First off, from your manual, it makes it very clear what audio formats it supports. What it doesn't make clear, but perhaps should, is that it doesn't support DRM-protected music. And just to be clear... it's not just that it doesn't support DRM-protection, it simply CAN'T be authorized to support them. Now one of the supported formats the manual lists is Audible.com. When I looked at Audible's website, the first thing I noticed is how they claim to be compatible with iTunes. I thought this seemed odd, and even now I think it's misleading. What they mean by "compatible" is that the content that they provide can be played back using iTunes, which is only available on a "regular" PC or Mac (or the iPhone/iPod Touch). That's all. This has nothing to do with your car. And while your car's system is running on Windows CE (which is quite the joke of an OS), there is no actual iTunes app for it. If there was, and if your system had a method of connecting to the Internet, you could theoretically authorize it to play back your DRM-protected music. Unfortunately that's not so. I think it's safe to say we all share your pain. Things SHOULD be easier than what they are, and this late into the 21st century they should be. Part of the problem here is DRM. It's overly complicated and forces too many compromises and hoops to jump through. Just to play some music. The other problem is lack of real innovation in the user interfaces of these devices. Nothing is truly easy to use, and with no one really TRYING to make things better, nothing will. I think the car stereo industry is in need of a real shakedown. Just look at the cellphone industry... everyone was comfortable with cheap phones and kludgy interfaces until Apple came along and shook things up. Several months ago, Apple was rumored to be working with Volkswagen to make a special edition of the Beetle that was to feature several Apple technologies as a showcase for how things "should be". It supposedly has since been called off, but I'd bet good money that Apple still has something brewing in that area. Anyways... what you should do is look over your music and see what is DRM-protected and what isn't. Copy over the stuff that isn't DRM-protected to a USB stick and then plug that into your car system. At least you can have that much on there. There are ways to strip the DRM off your music files, but unfortunately they can't be discussed in this forum. [/QUOTE]
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