Nav V and musicproblem

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Hi
I have just bought a Nav V for my GSA and want to put my ITunes library onto it. I have bought a 64gb card and formatted it to Fat32, so far so good.
I started to download my music to the extra card whilst it is in the unit one block at a time (Artists starting with the letter A, B, C etc). Whilst doing this I get a pop up which says "convert from m4a, recommended" which I did as the unit, according to the manual will not recognise the m4a format .
The process is slow so after downloading quite a few I thought I would give it a whirl; nothing on the Nav V even though they are showing on the memory card. On the Nav V a pop up says that "No songs were found. To play songs copy music files to the MP3 folder".
What am I doing wrong? I am not very computer savvy (but I know a man who is) so a blow by blow idiots guide on how to load music would be much appreciated
Hope the above makes sense
Regards
Chris
 
i believe the nav 5 will like most every other garmin unit only play .mp3 files. it will not play anything from itunes.
 
I copied some iTunes music to a folder on the desktop(windows) and then copied that to the NAV 5. Try it with 1 song first to make sure it was ok.... no issues. I put a 32g card in as I had read that for some reason a 64g gave issues.
No issues with playing music back so far.
Hope this helps.


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Thanks or the quick replies, they are much appreciated. Gonna settle down tonight and try again, I'll keep you posted.
Regards
Chris.
 
When you crack it, it would be great if you could post up a clearly written explanation (with pictures if possible) as to how you did it.

If it's good, I'll sticky it as the 'Go to' answer.
 
leedude03 said:
in that case i stand corrected.
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Maybe he'd stored MP3 songs in iTunes? I know people who do.

There again, maybe Garmin have altered their own Entertainment software to cater for Apple format songs, negating the need for conversion. The truth is out there, I don't doubt.
 
I need to redo mine at sometime as have varying volume levels due to some being converted from vinyl and the remainder either from CD or download, certainly several thousand tunes.
 
Wapping said:
Maybe he'd stored MP3 songs in iTunes? I know people who do.

There again, maybe Garmin have altered their own Entertainment software to cater for Apple format songs, negating the need for conversion. The truth is out there, I don't doubt.
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Just to clarify, the 3 albums that I copied from iTunes to the Nav 5 were purchased on iTunes.:D. :beerjug:
 
The Nav V supports MP3 music files, and M3U and M3U8 playlist files.
Obviously one of the latter, a software alteration as suggested by Wapping.
 
I-Tunes music to Nav V

I have written up what I to put my I-Tunes onto my Nav V did but didn't do any pictures as I am not very good with things like that. I have tried to be as detailed as I can, and in a sequence I can follow but being a computer Luddite, I hope it makes sense. Feel free to amend if needs be, I hope it can help other people to load music to their Nav V.

My Nav V had the updates to 3.40 which showed up when I plugged it in and opened Garmin.

1st off;

DO NOT BUY A MEMORY CARD OFF EBAY!

All my initial problems stemmed from what was purported to be genuine Sandisk/Kingston 64gb Micro SD cards. I bought a Sandisk 64gb micro sd and adaptor from Tesco for £17.99.

1. Load the micro sd card into the adaptor then into the appropriate card reader on your computer and format the card to FAT 32 using the download off the site mentioned in the following video:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcOkHajz3ug" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Being a self-confessed computer Luddite these instructions were easy to follow and did what you need to do to get the card recognised by the NAV V.

2. Remove sd card from adaptor and put it into the sat nav then replace the battery and back plate. If you download the music straight to the card whilst it is in the computer non MP3 files will not be converted and consequently the Nav V will not recognise them.

3. Plug sat nav into computer and click on its icon that comes up in the Windows Explorer tab (or the My Computer tab).

4. Some people say load a single track to the internal memory to kick start the Nav V into recognising the music files. I did this as a matter of precaution by clicking on “internal memory” and dragging a single track into it.

5. Click on the SD card memory bar (not the internal memory) this showed a blank page.

6. Right click on the blank page and create a new folder, I called mine “Music”. Click on this file to open it and you will get a blank page.

7. Open up your I-Tunes music in conjunction with the Nav V sd card memory page.

8. Starting with artists beginning with the letter “A” drag it onto the blank page of the memory card “music” file. If the music is MP3 it will begin to copy over (this format is recognised by the sat nav). If it is in M4a (as a lot of mine were) a pop up box came up asking if I wanted to convert it. I ticked the box at the bottom left “do this for all files” then clicked “yes” to convert them to MP3.

9. You may want to try just doing one song/album and check that it has worked by linking it to your headset to see if it has worked (this is what I did with using my Nexx Sena headset).

10. When the music has copied over (which can take a while if you have a lot) repeat section 8 for artists beginning with “B”.

11. I repeated the above, alphabetically, a block at a time until I had all 18gb of music loaded onto the card which took some time.

As I said at the beginning, this I not a definitive guide others may have an easier option but, touch wood, it worked for me.
 
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Thank you Boady.

Richard

PS I edited Boady's post slightly, only to embed the video rather than have the link.
 
Drop at least one song / tune directly into the Nav 5 unit internal memory - the system searches its own hard drive first for music and then gives up if it doesn't find a music file - by dropping one tune on the hard drive it somehow gives it the patience to look in the additional removeable drives. Don't ask me why but I fecked about for days before I found this out.
 
Riktus said:
Drop at least one song / tune directly into the Nav 5 unit internal memory - the system searches its own hard drive first for music and then gives up if it doesn't find a music file - by dropping one tune on the hard drive it somehow gives it the patience to look in the additional removeable drives. Don't ask me why but I fecked about for days before I found this out.
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Strange, as I have never had to do that. All my music has always been on the SD card
 
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