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      05-16-2017, 09:38 AM   #7
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Unless things changed for 2017 (entirely possible), this is how the onboard HDD works for music:
- Only available in the Technology Package (IOW, cars without this do not have an on-board HDD dedicated to music because of what pikcachu points out: it's shared space with the Nav Pro HDD)
- Available space: 20GB
- Storage method: compressed 256Kbps MP3s. Always. No way to change that. IOW, if you rip a CD to the HDD, it downconverts the file from 1411 to 256.

For the latter reason, I do not use the HDD at all for music. The quality is worse than Spotify. YMMV, but if you've upgraded your audio at all, the difference in SQ between the HDD and CD playback -- the latter of which, by the way, has its own issues -- is striking.
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