Stereo USB file formats

[neon_fox]

I'm preparing for a road trip tomorrow, so I had a look in the multimedia manual, but there doesn't appear to be any mention of what file formats are supported.
Anyone got any ideas?

[Panamax]

neon_fox said:

I'm preparing for a road trip tomorrow, so I had a look in the multimedia manual, but there doesn't appear to be any mention of what file formats are supported. Anyone got any ideas?

No knowledge of Alpine. However, pretty much everything will accept MP3 and its friends and relations. In the "in car" environment the quality is almost certainly good enough.

When you stray towards higher resolution some cars take FLAC, some cars want WAV. Frankly it's chaos, but you'll never hear the difference anyway.

[show_pony]

FLAC works tried it this week

[Whaleblue]

MP3 is essentially universal, and higher end (think 320kps) is really, really, not going to sound any worse than FLAC or WAV in a car (or likely anywhere else for that matter).

Obviously MP3 formats are smaller than FLAC/WAV typically, so if you have the choice use that to get more music on your device.

[neon_fox]

Yup, FLAC and MP3 work, but not Ogg Vorbis.

[NewtonSheep]

FLAC and WAV work for me, but the Alpine system for controlling the music from a USB is utter rubbish; I can only ever get it to play a single track at a time.

Also, the volume is way out of kilter; it plays super quiet, so I have to turn it right up, and then when I switch back to radio it almost blows the bloody doors off!

I gave up.

[timbo999]

NewtonSheep said:

FLAC and WAV work for me, but the Alpine system for controlling the music from a USB is utter rubbish; I can only ever get it to play a single track at a time.

Also, the volume is way out of kilter; it plays super quiet, so I have to turn it right up, and then when I switch back to radio it almost blows the bloody doors off!

I gave up.

I use voice control... 'Play album Crime of the Century'' and 'Play artist Supertramp' both work for me, but you do have to be precise, 'Ziggy Stardust' doesn't work but 'The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' does!

Artist plays all the tracks by that artist on the USB in alphabetical order.

Album does exactly what you'd hope.

The proviso is that you've either got the right meta data on the usb or at least have the files organised by artist/album.

[neon_fox]

I haven't tried voice control, I'll have to give it a go.

[timbo999]

Buried in the system settings is a control to equalise the volume from all the audio sources - although where it is and what its called I can't recall. Next time I sit in the car. I'll try and find it again.

[NewtonSheep]

timbo999 said:

Buried in the system settings is a control to equalise the volume from all the audio sources - although where it is and what its called I can't recall. Next time I sit in the car. I'll try and find it again.

Cheers, I'll look for that too.