Ipod Classic works with USB-C adapter. Control from Tesla screen.

[Taxvictim]

My brand new M3 has only USB-C inputs (except the USB port in the glove box, but that's for the dashcam thumbdrive). USB-C must be the wave of the future because my new Samsung phone had only a C to C charging cable. (USB-C is the tiny flat-oval jack that can be plugged in up or down.)

I bought a USB-C adapter today at Best Buy and plugged my ancient Ipod classic, that has over 14,000 songs on it, into the USB-C jack in the front storage compartment. The Tesla scanned and uploaded the database in about 15 minutes, and now I can leave the Ipod in the storage compartment and control it from the screen, selecting by artist or album. The only drawback is that it does not recognize playlists.

At lunch I will test voice commands to select songs and artists.

 

[Knightshade]

You can do the same thing with any USB storage device.... (which is why it's working for you, the older non-IOS ipods could present as basic USB storage)

 

[finman100]

awesome! Album art on the Tesla screen?

 

[Taxvictim]

You can do the same thing with any USB storage device.... (which is why it's working for you, the older non-IOS ipods could present as basic USB storage)

Aha! So that's good news because it means the Tesla is probably taking the data stream and using its newer and superior processors to create the music from the file, rather than the Ipod's dual 80Mhz chips. That also means I could just dump a bunch of music on a portable hard drive and plug it in, too.

That's my project for tonight. Dump every kind of FLAC, ALAC, AAIF, MP3, WAV, and DSD on a USB drive and see which ones the Tesla will play.

I wonder if Folders could take the place of Playlists? Or I could practice renaming the Genre of all the songs I want in a playlist to something specific, and then tell the car to play that Genre.

 

[Taxvictim]

awesome! Album art on the Tesla screen?

Sorry, I don't see it.

Another funny aside, if I have the Ipod playing and I try Voice Command "Play song Abandoned Masquerade", it will ignore that Diana Krall song on my Ipod and switch the input to Streaming instead. Comparing the two inputs, they both sounded really good, no noticeable difference listening above the road noise.

 

[Taxvictim]

FLAC, WAV, and MP3 are supported. DSD, AIFF, and ALAC not supported, so far as my experiment went.

 

[mbp11]

I did this with an ipod classic..... but I am a crazy person and set it away to upgrade the hard drive inside to 240 gb.... and enabled disc access so I could just drag and drop any mp3s or AIFFs that I wanted on the drive. Now I am trying to sort out the duplicates, that is a pain. The iPod sleeps in the front of the console on my MX 100D and attaches by a USB cable under the console to the USB port in the car. I have LOTS of music!

 

[Tdriver]

You can create folders and they take the place of playlist.

 

[toolman335]

There's a USB port in the glovebox????? I'm going to head outside and confirm that for myself lol. Or is that just for new cars? Mine is a 2019.

 

[el-guapin]

There's a USB port in the glovebox????? I'm going to head outside and confirm that for myself lol. Or is that just for new cars? Mine is a 2019.

Isn't this for the Sentry mode flash drive?

 

[toolman335]

Isn't this for the Sentry mode flash drive?

I use one of the 2 in the center console. That's where I was instructed to do it when I bought the car.

 

[Shelburne]

Wow...I have an very old iPod Classic with about 90gb of music on it. I'm going to give this a try!

 

[Ecoli]

There's a USB port in the glovebox????? I'm going to head outside and confirm that for myself lol. Or is that just for new cars? Mine is a 2019.

not for 2019 vintage

 

[MaskedRacerX]

Aha! So that's good news because it means the Tesla is probably taking the data stream and using its newer and superior processors to create the music from the file, rather than the Ipod's dual 80Mhz chips. That also means I could just dump a bunch of music on a portable hard drive and plug it in, too.

iPod DACs were actually pretty good (if that's what you mean by "create the music", older ones used an outstanding Wolfson DAC.

But anyway, yes, it's just reading the files like any USB storage device with digital media, which is also why you're not getting album art, that's currently non-functional for USB sourced audio files.

(Everyone is hopeful the brand new major version of the OS will fix this, whenever it's released in the next 2 weeks ... or 2 years ...)

There's a USB port in the glovebox????? I'm going to head outside and confirm that for myself lol. Or is that just for new cars? Mine is a 2019.

Started in '21 models.

 

[MaskedRacerX]

Speaking of iPods, and this is a touch OT but @mbp11 reminded me of it ...

Several years I knocked around with an alternate firmware/OS called RockBox, pretty cool, I don't think there's been much activity on the project in the last couple of years, but for those folks who want a slicker UI, some neat plugins, the ability to play (as in, directly from the iPod itself) FLAC files, and simple, direct, filesystem access, it's pretty cool.

Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware

www.rockbox.org

 

[rpiotro]

My brand new M3 has only USB-C inputs (except the USB port in the glove box, but that's for the dashcam thumbdrive). USB-C must be the wave of the future because my new Samsung phone had only a C to C charging cable. (USB-C is the tiny flat-oval jack that can be plugged in up or down.)

I bought a USB-C adapter today at Best Buy and plugged my ancient Ipod classic, that has over 14,000 songs on it, into the USB-C jack in the front storage compartment. The Tesla scanned and uploaded the database in about 15 minutes, and now I can leave the Ipod in the storage compartment and control it from the screen, selecting by artist or album. The only drawback is that it does not recognize playlists.

At lunch I will test voice commands to select songs and artists.

I tried that with my iPod Nano. No joy. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Knightshade]

Guessing it needs to be in disk mode to appear as USB storage to the car?

how do you put a iPod nano in disk mode ? - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

 

[jjrandorin]

There's a USB port in the glovebox????? I'm going to head outside and confirm that for myself lol. Or is that just for new cars? Mine is a 2019.

Thats for new cars (someone likely said that already). Pretty sure its 2020+

Edit: Yep, I should have read to the end of the thread before replying, cause now it looks like I am piling on. Didnt intend to do that, sorry (although I am going to leave the post here because I made it in the first place).

 

[toolman335]

Well that could make me get in line for a new one sooner than planned

 

[Taxvictim]

Well the joke is on me! My dashcam has never worked right since Day 1. Last night I hit the "Format USB Drive" assuming it would re-format only the Tesla thumbdrive in the glove box. This morning my entire iPod Classic was erased!