Although we have an ipod in the house, rather than faff about with mounts etc I was going to get a couple of 4 Gb memory sticks, one for me, one for the missus. Then copy the desired mp3's onto the stick and play using the Blue & Me. Has anyone tried this and does it work, any issues or is it simply plug and play?

Sorry can't answer this for sure, but I was just wondering exact same thing. Taking into account how XP works (or doesn't) I would assume that it would just be plug and play.

I would, however, make sure that your 4gb stick is completely formatted, ie not auto run programs which initiate as soon as you plug em in...like the sandisk autorun in their 4gb titanium. etc.

But yeah, usb stick is far neater,...definitely the way to go

Aye, the 500 can play music on a flash memory stick via Blue & Me.

Cheers,
Si

Sikersh

I know it can or should, just wondering if it does so in practice.

Theres a whole load of threads about blue and me in the GP section.
Havent looked at them myself yet (well apart from picking a compatible phone )

https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punto-technical/

hi

Have tried this in my gp with blue and me and you can use different memory sticks only thing is everytime you change the stick it takes a few mins for the system to build the media library but after that all works fine

hope this helps

Thanks.

Can the music be organised in folders as it is on the computer or does it have to be a series of mp3's in one folder?

i just have mine all on the stick as i ripped them, so each album is on its own, but from previous experiance you can put everything in different folders under the artists names and that works

Plant, what stick u using?

I'm going to get one of those SD cards which fold into a USB connection. I find standard memory sticks too long and would poke out too much!

http://uk.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1853)-SDSDPH-2048-902-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_Plus_USB_2GB.aspx

Baerius said:

Plant, what stick u using?

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i use a 4gb kingstone from www.mymemory.co.uk cost me £20 includin delivery but just been lookin and they do the same one now for 11.99 + postage or an 8gb for 17.99 + postage

found this to be the best option as the system doesnt work with an ipod touch

Yeah Suasexed, I'm going for the 4gb sandisk sd card with usb adaptor as it has a lower profile and is all in all very er...jack bauer...

Im totally lost here with this blue and me bit... think Ill just stick a CD in the stereo and turn my phone off... it scares me this blue bit.

Baerius said:

Yeah Suasexed, I'm going for the 4gb sandisk sd card with usb adaptor as it has a lower profile and is all in all very er...jack bauer...

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That was my other option! Get a small SD card reader and put all my music onto SD cards. That way it's really discrete and you can have different cards for different moods and playlists!

Also for cheap memory check out www.svp.co.uk

Suasexed said:

I'm going to get one of those SD cards which fold into a USB connection. I find standard memory sticks too long and would poke out too much!

http://uk.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1853)-SDSDPH-2048-902-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_Plus_USB_2GB.aspx

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Thats what im going to use as well. Got a 4gb micro sd for my N95. Came with a USB adaptor . Or failing that, use my N95 with the in car charger and see if bluetooth can play my tunes

all too high tech for me how do i get the music onto my pc then onto a memory stick?

The term used is to 'rip' your CDs onto your computer. Even windows media player will do it. Remember to save as MP3.

Then drag them from that file to the stick.

Even this old dinosaur can manage it.

Cheers

D

I have a 4gb Sandisk memory card, and whilst test driving today I tried my SD in the USB slot, set the radio to AUX and hey presto nice loud music.

The track title show up just below the clock on the dash, and the up/down controls on the steering wheel changes tracks.

The 100w sub on my order should allow the Rock music to rock the car. :slayer:

dude, why did you have to set the radio to aux? It's not an itrip, shoulda just played through the USB right?

Baerius said:

dude, why did you have to set the radio to aux? It's not an itrip, shoulda just played through the USB right?

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You've still got to set the head unit to AUX. On the stereo you will be able to switch between CD / FM / AM and AUX which will be whatever is connected via the Blue&Me USB socket