AAC files and Honda car audio systems

Andrew Clarke

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Sep 30, 2015, 3:27:01 AM9/30/15

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We've just bought a brand new Honda Jazz/Fit whose sound system, according to the manual, will only play AAC files if they were created by iTunes. Well, I don't get anything from iTunes, my AACs are all converted from FLAC by dbPowerAmp, and the Honda system plays them perfectly happily. This comes as a considerable relief.

Andrew Clarke
Canberra

Steve de Mena

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Oct 1, 2015, 1:46:24 AM10/1/15

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Why / how could iTunes have anything to do with whether a player could
play AAC files?

Steve

Andrew Clarke

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Oct 1, 2015, 6:21:19 AM10/1/15

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Ask Mr Honda.

MiNe109

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Oct 1, 2015, 11:40:26 AM10/1/15

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I believe certain Acura's had gps systems that somehow required DVD-A
capability and therefore made surround sound available, so there may be
other seemingly inexplicable situations.

Does iTunes have a flag to keep track of how many devices can play a file?

Stephen

Al Eisner

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Oct 1, 2015, 6:02:27 PM10/1/15

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On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Andrew Clarke wrote:

> We've just bought a brand new Honda Jazz/Fit whose sound system, according to the manual, will only play AAC files if they were created by iTunes. Well, I don't get anything from iTunes, my AACs are all converted from FLAC by dbPowerAmp, and the Honda system plays them perfectly happily. This comes as a considerable relief.

With the Honda being Japanese, you're lucky it doesn't insist on vinyl.

(I have to admit I have an older Japanese car, and it
only accepts CD's.)
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Al Eisner

Andrew Clarke

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Oct 2, 2015, 12:42:09 AM10/2/15

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Our previous Jazz/Fit was the 2007 model and it only accepted CDs too. This is the 2015 model and it accepts CDs as well as MP3 and AAC files. Apple gets mentioned a couple of times in the Handbook - for example you can play videos on the touch screen but only of course when the car is stationery and you haven't anything better to do in a stationary car.

Reading the speedometer from right to left in kanji is still a little confusing but we're getting used to it.

Andrew Clarke
Canberra

avaperm...@gmail.com

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Oct 2, 2015, 1:01:44 AM10/2/15

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My 2015 Mini Cooper came with an optional CD changer, according to the dealer I was the first purchaser to ever order one. It's labeled as a "DVD" player and I hoped the car would play videos on the car's distinctive round screen, but alas it's audio only.

Marc

Al Eisner

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Oct 2, 2015, 6:38:04 PM10/2/15

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On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Andrew Clarke wrote:

> Reading the speedometer from right to left in kanji is still a little confusing but we're getting used to it.

I've lost track: do you also drive on the wrong side of the road
down there?
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Al Eisner

Norman Schwartz

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Oct 2, 2015, 7:25:57 PM10/2/15

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Not only that, the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.

Andrew Clarke

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Oct 3, 2015, 2:12:25 AM10/3/15

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... and the entire vehicle is upside down, which made driving quite painful until seat-belts were invented.

AC
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Herman

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Oct 3, 2015, 5:18:22 AM10/3/15

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especially since they're jumping kangaroo style.

Norman Schwartz

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Oct 3, 2015, 10:04:03 AM10/3/15

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Andrew Clarke wrote:
> On Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 9:25:57 AM UTC+10, Norman Schwartz
> wrote:
>> Al Eisner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Andrew Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Reading the speedometer from right to left in kanji is still a
>>>> little confusing but we're getting used to it.
>>>
>>> I've lost track: do you also drive on the wrong side of the road
>>> down there?
>>
>> Not only that, the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.
>
> ... and the entire vehicle is upside down,

That's most probably why its DVD player can't play DVDs.

(Perhaps the reason which causes water to swirl down a drain in the wrong
direction (counter-clockwise) has something to do with it.)

Steve de Mena

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Oct 10, 2015, 10:46:27 PM10/10/15

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Nope.

Steve