Zumo 660 Music Downloading

[Darren33]

Hello peeps, Just received my 660 and am having trouble down loading my music to it.  I have plugged it into my laptop, opened my music folder, tried to drag my music across to it and all seemed ok. But when I tried to listen to it fro the sat nav, It say's no music files>>>> WTF!!!

Any Ideas????

[Bryn]

They need to. Be mp3 format 

[garfield1974]

They need to. Be mp3 format 

BTW I am not clear where did you try to upload music: to device or to SD card.
In any case my advice is to download to SD card as you will need every byte of device memory 

[Bryn]

convert to MP3 and drag each track to the micro SD card you've thoughtfully added to the 660... Works for me. 

[O.C.]

convert to MP3 and drag each track to the micro SD card you've thoughtfully added to the 660... Works for me. 

you must upload directly to the card not to the card via the device...I think I mentioned this before on another thread 

[Rusty]

OC has it ... straight to the card 

[Lonewolf]

If you decide to use a micro SD card get the fastest available. I bought a 32gb Class 10 for about £23 from Maplins. The higher the class, the faster it will process the data on it.

[O.C.]

If you decide to use a micro SD card get the fastest available. I bought a 32gb Class 10 for about £23 from Maplins. The higher the class, the faster it will process the data on it.

and upload from your lappy to the card at the highest available sound quality, which you can choose from a drop down in your music library file 

[Darren33]

Thankyou for the helpful suggestions guys

Just got back from a rideout so will get started and try and download tonight and let ya know how I get on.  I'll have to pinch the 64GB Micro SD Card I bought the wife for her Tablet at Christmas.  It's a Class 10 so should do the job fine then. Don't tell her though!!

Regards

Darren

[Darren33]

I am getting a bit confused over something I am sure is simple when you have done it a few times. However when I try and transfer music files across to the SD Card and put it back in the Garmin and select MP3, it says, "No MP3 Files Found"

I Must be doing something wrong as It aint working.

I am  Installing the Micro SD Card to my Laptop, Then  I open 'My Music'  and select and drag each song I want, across to the SD card device...

Any Ideas or a quick Idiot Guide please would be useful.

Cheers

Darren

[Andy]

Have you formated the new card? I think 4Gb is officially largest you can use    sometimes get small free one with some mobile phones.

[dezzer]

Hi , it will pay you to check with Garmin re micro SD memory size , I think they quote 16gb is the max, this is what I use but you do need to convert it to MP3, check with using I tunes as I think it is already converted for you, alsa I am no puter expert so perhaps someone else can help out there.

Good luck and enjoy it when you get there!!

Dezzer

[dezzer]

Just a quick add on, put the micro SD card into a converter then insert into puter,  on I tune you"rip"  to the library, when thats done you can right click on library and hopefully the recording is there which on mine is under computer on my desktop. and when done you can I think right click on the album and if I remember right then send to the micro SD card which should show towards the bottom left hand side of the screen you have brought up with" computer" as possibly "E" or similar  which is your micro card, dont send it to Garmin zumo 660 as it will affect the memory for future upgrades, then hopefully the music will be on the 660 under the music sign, I hope you can follow this alright if not call Garmin and get them to talk you through, once again goodluck...Dezzer

[trousersnake01]

Darren, leave the SD card in the garmin, thats the only way your garmin will see the MP3's.

Make sure you use the garmin USB lead that comes with it, they are different to normal USB leads.

Make sure you download all the correct software for your PC, drivers ect

[Darren33]

First of all, many thank's to everyone for their help and Advice.

I have finally sussed it out. I think...

This is what I did. probably the long way round but I did not have any music on My Laptop. I was using Sonia's last night. Decide to start from scratch and upload my own music.

First I had to Rip my CD's onto the Media Player Library
Before Ripping I had to change the format to MP3 and select the highest Bit Rate for best Quality
Once I had ripped all my CD's to the library  I then inserted my 4GB Micro SD Card, (In the Adaptor) into my card slot in the laptop
The Micro SD card came up in the device menu on the LHS of the screen as E:\
Once I clicked the E:\ symbol, I was then able to sync the device to the Media Player and it came up at the RHS of the screen
I was able to  drag my albums across one at a time to the Box at the RHS of the screen and press Sync
Each one was then uploaded to the SD card
I then put the SD card back into the Garmin and it all worked fine. Phew!!!

Things I was doing wrong were, My Original Micro SD Card was a huge 64GB, and the music I had at first was not in MP3 Format. I ended up using the 4GB SD Card that came in the unit. I did not use this at first as I thought it might not be as good quality but hey ho.

On the plus side, I have now got my Sena SMH10 Headsets talking to each other, I can hear my Wife, the sat Nav and MP3 Player through my headsets but she can only hear me, not the Sat Nav or Music.

I will look into the reason later but I am gonna attempt to install the Charging Dock for the Garmin to the Front Auxilliary Wiring connections this morning.

Fingers Crossed.




R