Questions from a newbie
 

My Z is almost here.... spose to be here the 5 or 6th. Had a couple questions getting a 09 touring sport with navi.

What is gracenote?

Is there a hard drive and if so how can I load songs on it ?

What kind of brakes are on it ?


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I can only answer the brake question.

If it is stock, you have the big akebono brakes. 4 piston calipers in front, 2 piston in back.

Great brakes, but you'll want to improve fluid and pads if you plan to track

I believe gracenote is the hard drive for the sound system. (don't have it so I'm not sure)

The brakes are Akebono 14" brakes.

Gracenote is the ripping software used to rip cd's to the on board hard drive.


The sport pkg will include the bigger Akebono brakes.



EDIT: Gracenote Id's and organizes all the music stored on the Hard Drive

Thanks Shadoquad not planning on tracking just the occasinal spirted driving :)

Thanks Trips so can i rip songs from say a compact flash or thru the ipod hookup ?

No and no. Lol, sorry. GraceNote is CDDB, CD Data Base, so when you put a CD in, it recognizes album, song names and artist.

You can only rip songs through CDs. And the CF port is pretty useless because the limit of songs is so little

Your right Andrew I was incorrect

I hardly use it since it takes forever to rip a cd.

Thanks DEpointfive0 !! guess ill be makeing cds to put on the hard drive !!

I would use the cf port and move music there.

It's much easier to maintain your music than listening to every cd completely while it's being ripped.

That got old for me.

Thanks !! yeah the more I read bout it thinking ipod and sat radio mite be a better way to go

agreed, although my Z that is also soon to be delivered i ordered without the nav since the regular touring without nav comes with satellite radio, bluetooth and auxillary jack to plug in my ipod so didnt really see a need for nav since i have my android with nav software on it :)

Ah! Thank you sir!