LEAFer
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The first (main) SD slot (on the right) is for the map data. The second SD (sub-) slot on the left is for updating the Audio, Visual & Nav System software.
Rat said:I still haven't heard an authoritative answer on whether the audio system has the random/shuffle option. That's important for those of us who don't want to have to load files in "random" order onto the USB drive or, alternatively, listen to a whole album of one thing at a time. Can anyone confirm?
LEAFguy said:Rat said:I still haven't heard an authoritative answer on whether the audio system has the random/shuffle option. That's important for those of us who don't want to have to load files in "random" order onto the USB drive or, alternatively, listen to a whole album of one thing at a time. Can anyone confirm?
Rat - I am currently driving a 2010 Altima with a USB port. One of the radio station preset buttons acts as a "random" selector for USB play. It can select "random all" or "random folder", so if you have all country music in one folder and all rap in another, you can select either musical type or select all to hear everything. It is likely that the LEAF will be similar.
While taking the code from other models and modifying it should be simple enough - that is probably not what they did - if they are using Windows Automobile 7. A lot of this functionality might come standard with the OS and they would just add the EV navigation, charging, telematics part.garygid said:It is not also likely that the LEAF's Nav, Audio, Plone support functions might be "different" from other models in significant ways?
Yes, "grabbing" another system might be easy, but maybe none had the flexibility to integrate into the CAN, program new menus, handle Cell-Phone data connections, etc. and Nissan HAD to use a "new" Nav/Audio/Control/Communication unit?
Thanks, that's reassuring. I got a new flash drive for Christmas so I can start loading my music on and not have to worry about the order.LEAFguy said:Rat said:I still haven't heard an authoritative answer on whether the audio system has the random/shuffle option. That's important for those of us who don't want to have to load files in "random" order onto the USB drive or, alternatively, listen to a whole album of one thing at a time. Can anyone confirm?
Rat - I am currently driving a 2010 Altima with a USB port. One of the radio station preset buttons acts as a "random" selector for USB play. It can select "random all" or "random folder", so if you have all country music in one folder and all rap in another, you can select either musical type or select all to hear everything. It is likely that the LEAF will be similar.
Jimmydreams said:wsbca said:Pardon me if this has been answered before, or is a dumb question...I've only had dumb phones before. I felt compelled to make the leap to the iPhone since it will talk to the car, and also has an app to monitor our solar system. But this is more about using the phone IN the car....
Since the car has a USB port, does that obviate the need for a dedicated iPhone interface gadget for charging and transmitting audio...meaning, can you just use the phone<->USB cable that came with the phone to not only interact with the audio system but charge the phone? Also, I know you can go handsfree with bluetooth
(I assume there's a mic somewhere in the cabin?), but would docking the phone with its own USB cable achieve the same thing?
I guess what I'm asking is does the USB port simply consider anything attached to it to be a removeable drive with storage, or is there more to it (such as providing the charge current and/or interfacing to the phone)
I brought my Apple-supplied iPhone USB cable to the test drives and plugged it in. The car 'found' my music right away (folders, playlists and all) AND charged my phone. The steering wheel controls also worked for next, back, volume, etc. :mrgreen:
I can't say, Bud....it's been too long since I sat in the demo car. Now, if my crossed-fingers work, I'll be sitting in MY blue Leaf within a week, and I'll tell you then!Bud said:Jimmydreams said:wsbca said:Pardon me if this has been answered before, or is a dumb question...I've only had dumb phones before. I felt compelled to make the leap to the iPhone since it will talk to the car, and also has an app to monitor our solar system. But this is more about using the phone IN the car....
Since the car has a USB port, does that obviate the need for a dedicated iPhone interface gadget for charging and transmitting audio...meaning, can you just use the phone<->USB cable that came with the phone to not only interact with the audio system but charge the phone? Also, I know you can go handsfree with bluetooth
(I assume there's a mic somewhere in the cabin?), but would docking the phone with its own USB cable achieve the same thing?
I guess what I'm asking is does the USB port simply consider anything attached to it to be a removeable drive with storage, or is there more to it (such as providing the charge current and/or interfacing to the phone)
I brought my Apple-supplied iPhone USB cable to the test drives and plugged it in. The car 'found' my music right away (folders, playlists and all) AND charged my phone. The steering wheel controls also worked for next, back, volume, etc. :mrgreen:
Does the volume control have infinite settings or is it a click adjust? It always seems that the click setting that I currently have is always one click too loud for what I want.
Randy said:* Ouch! Only 510 max files are supported on CD or USB, including a max of 255 in one folder. 255 max folders are supported.
Since Leaf supports AVRCP 1.3, if you get a phone which supports this profile - you will get a lot of functionality. Almost like USB/ipod.Is compliant with Bluetooth A2DP 1.2 and AVRCP 1.3
1.0—Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)
1.3—all of 1.0 plus metadata and media-player state support The status of the music source (playing, stopped, etc.)
Metadata information on the track itself (artist, track name, etc.).
Oops. Brain freeze.garygid said:How does 2 bytes imply 510 tracks?
Actually, 2 bytes sounds right; 255 folders and 255 files per folder, 1 byte for folder and 1 byte for file-within-folder, which would give a max of 65K tracks. In the immortal words of Bill Gates: "enough for anybody". In fact you'd have to have a lot of very short tracks, very low bit-rate, or a lot of memory to hit the 65K limit. Right now, I'm averaging 300 tracks/GB. If 510 tracks is the limit I could do this with 2GB USB memory. However, I hope that's not the case! My Sony player doesn't seem to care that all ~2050 tracks are in the same directory, but I can split it if need be...evnow said:Oops. Brain freeze.garygid said:How does 2 bytes imply 510 tracks?
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