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Old 06-26-2016, 02:51 PM
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I have a Zumo 660 with a 64G memory card, I want to put my music library on there from my Mac laptop It is version 10.9.3 which is adequate, but if I hook up the Zumo or just the card into the laptop it won't give me any options to burn it to the card or the Garmin. Anyone have any clue as to what I need to do? Thanks in advance.
 
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I had to reformat my library to MP3 then copy to files w not more than 23-30 songs per folder. genres, artists etc all carried over.
 
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Wow How long did that take? I have like 6Gigs of music. I'm not that tech savvy writing/changing file formats. Is it difficult?
 
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Yep, gotta be MP3 format. Plenty free converters out there. The sound quality of the zumo left me underwhelmed too, hope yours is better.
 
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Thanks,
For sound I was going to listen to the music, Bluetooth either to my helmet speakers or through the amp and stereo. Think it will still sound crappy?
 
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For sound I was going to listen to the music, Bluetooth either to my helmet speakers or through the amp and stereo. Think it will still sound crappy?
Mine did but I was bluetoothed to a sena unit. Guess it just depends on setup. Give it a shot.
 
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Mine did but I was bluetoothed to a sena unit. Guess it just depends on setup. Give it a shot.
I have a couple ways to go. The helmet has a cardo bt. Have my iphone and my deck is bt with an amp.
 
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I sent my radio to Iron Cross Radio and they put an aux jack in the back of the unit. Plugged zumo directly into that. Sounded great........especially after the Arc Audio upgrade. LOL Even if you just run the speaker out line to the front of the head unit it should sound just fine.
 
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I have an aftermarket and an amp. It is Bluetooth so maybe I can stream it to the deck from the GPS, reason is you can't see the deck screen in the sun, not sure if it has a aux jack but it does have a USB port. I'll get it somehow. It's just my MAC laptop is not my friend when trying to get iTunes to convert. Even though it's me, gotta blame something. Lol Appreciate all the responses.
 
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^^^^^in that case, skip the gps, load everything onto a thumb drive and that will be your best quality anyway. go to youtube and type in "how to download music on thumb drive" and almost everyone is for how to get your music from iTunes onto a thumbdrive. hope this helps
 
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