Loading MP3's on a Nuvi 760

Your 760 will read the files, it doesn't care how they get there.

Either Way seems to work. I usually leave the SD card in the Nuvi and the SD has it's own drive (H: in my case). I just click and drag the artist/album over to the H: drive. Or I can put it in the reader and it will show up as the F: drive. Click and drag over to the F: drive. Both ways are similar and the Nuvi doesn't seem to care.

In addition to the songs I have on an 8 Gig SD card I put 50 of my fav. mp3's right in the GPS.

That way if my SD card gets damaged (or I forget to put it in) I have a few songs for it to cycle through.

My GPS requires that any album covers are in jpg format. It won't display them if they are bmp.

But it must be told, that if you put anything directly on gps it will take available disk space on device. After some time it may happen that it will be impossible to - for example - update maps to new version as there will be no free space on device. So if you put anything directly on gps then remember of removing it before map update. Otherwise it will be very unpleasant surprise.

what I am about to warn you about, was certainly the case when I got my 765T, and the firmware was in the 3.2 range or thereabouts.

At that time, if you were playing mp3's, and you had an audio alert set up as an mp3, the mp3 player would advance to the next track, whenever the mp3 alert would play.

Not a big deal maybe if you are simply playing a list of songs, but unacceptable if trying to listen to podcasts or audiobooks.

The workaround was to use wav files and sox.exe, as the alert sounds.

I don't know if this was ever corrected in subsequent firmware upgrades, as even though I have continued to upgrade my firmware (except for the known troublesome ones...I am currently at 4.00) I have never bothered to change my alert sounds.

Maybe someone else can confirm that the wav file and sox.exe workaround is no longer necessary.

Thanks for all the tips and advice everyone!

Another question, is it just me or does the Nuvi's Shuffle mode seem to do a poor job at shuffling? Seems like I hear the same songs too soon even though I have about 300-400 loaded onto the SD card.

I have a nuvi 760 as well and I find that will over 600 songs, I still hear songs WAY too frequently when i have it on shuffle mode. Just the nature of the player I suppose.

I've thought the same thing about my 660, so I agree with you. Its one of the reasons I use a combination of Shuffle and playlists which I constructed and I know don't have any dups.