Great Way To Add Music To GPS with Mp3 Capibility

 

If anyone has a digital recorder with a line input and satilite TV service, you could record a lot of music and put it on your GPS, using the SD card. many Mp3 players have a record function with a line input and variable record bit rates that would be perfect. One could then connect the mp3 player to the PC and transfer it to the SD card in the GPS. I have just added 7 hours of music using about 692 mb at 192k bit rate. I have a 8 gig card, so it holds a lot of music and poi files. It would be a great companion on a long trip.

The only downside is that it would be one huge file, so you couldn't select individual songs.

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I highly recommend people

I highly recommend people NOT do this. That file is too big, and from other posts will severely slow down the GPS especially when loading each time. That many songs with no way to make a play list? No thanks. I am not certain, but it also may not be legal to download music from the Satellite services, including TV satellite.

I can understand the large

I can understand the large file argument, but illegal? It would be an analog recording, converted to digital and for personal use. How is this different from burning a cd (which is an analog copy)and listening to it in another format? Is the music industry this paranoid to disallow this?

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To be sure, one would want to check his or her service agreement with the digital provider to ensure that the service terms are followed.

To my knowledge you are not

To my knowledge you are not legally allowed to burn music from Sirius/XM for example. They had to go thru alot just to be able to make receivers that could save songs and play them back - it was and still is done in a very limited way in agreement with the recording industry.
Burning from your purchased MP3's for personal use is allowed.
I quote from XM for example; "You may not make commercial use of, reproduce, rebroadcast, or otherwise transmit or redistribute the programming, create unauthorized recordings of the programming, charge admission specifically for the purpose of listening to the programming, or distribute play lists of the Services."

So I stand by my warning as I would suspect similar limitations apply to other music services.

I Stand Corrected

Well, scratch that. Pretty soon the copyright police will arrest us for humming a tune.

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"Pretty soon the copyright

"Pretty soon the copyright police will arrest us for humming a tune."

LOL - I'm sure they have lawyers working on that..........

Great Way To Add Music To GPS with MP3 Capability

I am just now coming up to speed on MP3 files. Both my wife and oldest son have small MP3 players, but I have got by with broadcast radio for years. Somewhat more recently we went XM. About a year and half ago we switched to Sirius. Now I have Slacker Radio for my wife. I just bought a used Nextel i580 with MP3 capability and I may buy a Garmin Nuvi with MP3 capability. Although I am strongly considering a Garmin Nuvi 500 and that does not have MP3 capability. Anyway, I think many of us here like to get the most out of our GPS devices and adding MP3 files is certainly consistent with that thread. I have just started experimenting with converting CD audio to MP3 and transferring to a micro SD card. I haven't found any web pages yet that discuss what is permissible and what is forbidden, but I am sure that they are out there. I have borrowed some CDs from my local library and with some I personally own transferred content to MP3 format onto the micro SD card. I think that is permissible for personal use, but I do not know for certain. For what ever it is worth, there are also several music subscription services that offer free trial memberships. I have even seen some micro SD cards available with pre-loaded music. There certainly are lots of choices available right now.

That would qualify as rebroadcasting

tampa8 wrote:

"Pretty soon the copyright police will arrest us for humming a tune."

LOL - I'm sure they have lawyers working on that..........

That would probably qualify in the attorney's eyes as rebroadcasting if you were in a public place at the time, I'm sure. grin

Copyright

kcgpsfan wrote:

Well, scratch that. Pretty soon the copyright police will arrest us for humming a tune.

That is too funny, I suspect they will have one set of lawyers for humming, another for singing along and a third for whistling a tune. Then you will have yet another group that will go after you for using the wrong words when singing along... mrgreen