Apple Lossless on USB

[TomServo]

I burned all my CD’s as Apple Lossless codex and exported them to a partition on my Samsung T7 SSD, it loads and even displays album art work but the music won’t play and it says “loading error”.

Can the Tesla media player play MP4’s or do I need to dumb them down to MP3’s?

 

[CyberGus]

I burned all my CD’s as Apple Lossless codex and exported them to a partition on my Samsung T7 SSD, it loads and even displays album art work but the music won’t play and it says “loading error”.

Can the Tesla media player play MP4’s or do I need to dumb them down to MP3’s?

“The proprietary Apple Lossless format is not usable in the Tesla, although there are programs that can convert these files into playable FLAC files.”

USB Flash Drives for Music | TeslaTap

 

[tom10422]

My understanding is that Tesla doesn't support Apple Lossless or MP4, only FLAC for lossless.

 

[TomServo]

After digging around that's correct, so I will dumb down my music to MP3's. Thanks

 

[mycroftxxx]

After digging around that's correct, so I will dumb down my music to MP3's. Thanks

Why go to MP3? Convert to 256kbps AAC (likely in an MP4 container); the AAC encoder beats the crap out of the MP3 encoder and from what I can find, Teslas have no issue playing AAC. Your “MP4s” aren’t the problem, it’s that you have Apple Lossless inside that MP4 container.

 

[jdw]

If you're on a Mac using iTunes, check out TeslaTunes - it auto-converts files to FLAC, but also converts playlists into a useable format for the Tesla media player.

Playlists
-- Playlist1 Folder
----Song1
---- Song2
--Playlist 2 Folder
-----etc.

Tesla Tunes by tattwamasi

 

[psuKinger]

I burned all my CD’s as Apple Lossless codex and exported them to a partition on my Samsung T7 SSD, it loads and even displays album art work but the music won’t play and it says “loading error”.

Can the Tesla media player play MP4’s or do I need to dumb them down to MP3’s?

I have a slew of lossless FLAC files, at a variety of different sampling rates and bit depths (16/44.1 CD rips; 16/48 audio rips taken from DVDs; and 24/44.1, 24/48, 24/88.2, and 24/96) on a Samsung T5. I took delivery on the car yesterday. I can't say I've tested EVERY SINGLE ONE of those yet, but I know for sure I played 16/44.1, 16/48, 24/44.1, and 24/96, and they all played. I haven't been successful yet in finding any info on signal chain transparency (if there's any resampling happening behind the scenes or not), but it all sounded reasonably good (certainly for stock car audio) to my ears so far...

You should be able to convert from ALAC--> FLAC losslessly and in bulk/batch, and get the same "audio quality," if you choose to...

 

[TomServo]

If you're on a Mac using iTunes, check out TeslaTunes - it auto-converts files to FLAC, but also converts playlists into a useable format for the Tesla media player.

Playlists
-- Playlist1 Folder
----Song1
---- Song2
--Playlist 2 Folder
-----etc.

Tesla Tunes by tattwamasi

I have heard of this, and yes I will check this out. Thanks for the reminder.