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Old 11-25-2005, 12:16 PM
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Default SD Cards (maximum storage?)

I just got a delivery date for my new car, so I was going to load up some SD cards with music. I have seen some conflicting info on how large a card you can use with the NAV+. I think the manual says 256MB, which seems low, but I have also heard some people use 1GB cards.
Anyone have any luck using full 1, 2 or even (too expensive) 4 GB cards?
Old 11-25-2005, 12:29 PM
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Default I use two 1 GB cards without any problems.

2 gigs holds plenty of 160k mp3 files. When I'm ready for new music, I reformat one of them and it takes no time.

I've heard that it's not the size of the card that is limited, it's the number of files. I don't know what that number limit is. Anyone?
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2x 1 gigs for me. Tried a 2 gig card, no problem. Eventually I'd like to swap the 1g cards to 2g
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I'm using 512MB but heard 1 or 2GB is no problem.
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Default wish I could hook up my Sony MP3 player(NWHD5) because

it's absolutely amazing. 20GB and uses Atrac+ with compression of only 64kbps that sounds absolutely incredible. Better than iPod IMHO.
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Default There is a 460 files limit

My 4GB (FAT32 high speed) works fine but I wasn't able to put more than 460 files on a card. Better, the RNS-E didn't read more than 460 files stored in several folders. My recommendation would be to get a 1GB or 2GB card unless you are ripping with 320k or have fewer but longer songs you are listening to.
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320 mmmmm sounds better than satellite radio.
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I've got 2x 1gb sd cards too. I tell you, this is probably one of the best features of the audio system. Sweet!!!
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Thanks for the info! I'll put a 2GB card on my wish-list.
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What program do you use to load the SD card? all mac here


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