FJRay
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Looking at picking up a 660lm when a good sale pops up. It says it has an onboard mp3 player. Does than mean that I can plug in a sd card or do you have to load the music onto the unit????
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buydig.com 349.00 and free freight for the 660lmI have one of those adapters that fits multiple sizes of SD cards. Less than ten $ I believe. Wal-mart has them or staples. Now how come you didn't let us in on the find Eh!
Dave
I think what folks are saying is you can load music on the SD micro card and play them on the gps. But there are conditions to be met, at least on my older nuvi. Check your manual.Looking at picking up a 660lm when a good sale pops up. It says it has an onboard mp3 player. Does than mean that I can plug in a sd card or do you have to load the music onto the unit????
the next file I transfer will be the first.I think what folks are saying is you can load music on the SD micro card and play them on the gps. But there are conditions to be met, at least on my older nuvi. Check your manual.Looking at picking up a 660lm when a good sale pops up. It says it has an onboard mp3 player. Does than mean that I can plug in a sd card or do you have to load the music onto the unit????
- music format matters. It must be in mp3 (and maybe mp4) format. The nuvi will not play anything associated with Windows.
- the music isn't just put on the card. I had to create a folder named 'music' and put the files there so the nuvi could find them.
- I'm limited to about 800 songs on the card. Any more and the nuvi just locks up.
- Staples, WalMart, Office Depot, etc all have SD-to-micro adapters. Just buy a micro that comes with one. Transferring files is transferring files, you know how, yes?
Again YMMV but .....
Oh. Dayum, you're less of a technogeek than I am! That my friend is just sad...the next file I transfer will be the first.
I generally don't use my gps for music unless I'm plugged into it in crowded urban areas. Then it plays, stops playing for turn instructions, then plays again. Nice feature but usually not used. My phone battery runs down way too fast when playing music so I don't bother with that either. I use a plain ol' fashioned mp3 player from like 2005. 20 gb memory (4gb player + 16 gb SD micro), the battery lasts at least 10 hrs on a charge and it doesn't care about the file format. The one I got is also an FM receiver so when I feel particularly energetic (read bored) I just pair the gps FM transmitter with the mp3 FM receiver for turn instructions so I don't have the earbud cable flopping about.Ha, get some help from a super power nerd !
As nice as it is that the gps will play music, I find those things just so limited in their abilities... Jack of all trades master of none... Androids are way less restricted in their nature and design. My music library is littered with all sorts of different formats (aac, flac, midi, mp3, m4a, etc) it doesn't think twice about them. I just dump them on my phone and away it goes.
ITunes wants to take over everything and run your life for you... Wasnt a huge fan of that..
Rant over
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