Hello!

I have a 2018 F-Pace 35t Portfolio. I have an affection for traditional jazz. When purchasing this vehicle, I was assured that I would be able to load my cd's and also make playlists of my choosing. These lists would be permanently stored and available anytime . It has been a nightmare! IF...any songs were saved, they are played in a completely random order and most songs are nowhere to be found. The long haired kid at the dealership shrugged his shoulders, said, "no clue", then gave me a bill and walked off! HELP!!! Can someone please point to a section in the owner's manual I didn't read completely or did I not properly load my cd's or playlists?

Any tips/suggestions/guidance would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!

 

Are there any other F-Pace owners having cd player issues? Am I alone?

 

I too have issues and yes it's common. Despite the infotanement upgrades from 17c,d to 18a, b, 19a they havelhave yet to fix the cd player bugs.
As per my Jaguar technician, he sees it all the time. I've almost stopped using mine. However I can understand your affinity to higher quality CDs.

 

I have the CD-player too, and with me it doesn't even give the option to rip/ transfer to SSD. Also not with the thumbdrive..

But JagMan 98, did you try to first rip a cd, and put it on a thumbdrive ? Or better : put all music you want in your car on a thumb.
Then order it by putting "01" , "02" in front of the title. Try this first with 10 songs, not your entire library, just in case if this also
does not work..
You do cut out the ripping part, that uses lost of RAM that the system probably doesn't have..

What upsets me is that the CD-player is unable to play MP3's , something my 2006 LR3 already did perfectly..

 

I will have to try that. My Infinity did have issues either!

 

JagMan 98 -

First of all, the dealer bold faced, outright lied to you just to make the sale. At the dealer levels I would say most service dept's know absolutely NOTHING about the bugs that are plaguing the CD player in the ICTP system. I have a '17 loaded 'S' that I picked up in late '16 and I have had no problem with anything in the vehicle except for the demon CD player from hell. I've had it in for service too many times to count and they can't figure it out. Had the whole system even replaced once with no difference in performance. Because everything else about this vehicle is so great, I've learned to just work around it as best I can. If they've let this go on so long with one of their oldest, top of the line models, I don't see anything changing soon unless they scrap the whole system and start over with a new vendor......don't hold your breath on that. The fact that JLR continues to allow a product in the field that doesn't accept MP3 CDs' just boggles the imagination. It was like someone said...."why bother - no one will notice,,,,". Good luck, my friend.

 

Thanks for your honest response!

 

You can add one other small item regarding the CD player. On my wife's MY 2019, often it won't eject the disc. It seems to play okay, but sometime just won't give it up upon hitting the eject button. I guess it just likes the taste of the disc and refuses to return it to you. In so far as "storing" songs on the hard drive, that's also useless on our vehicle. Really, not much storage space and way too long to load anything. As someone earlier remarked, we just forget about it. Mostly it will play audio books, which is what we use it for. Other than that, a waste of money.

 

Reading through this discussion makes me want to go out in the garage and load a disc in out F-Pace. and see what happens. As soon as I finish lunch........

 

As mentioned by others before, use of a flash drive is the way to go. It seems to handle the songs I've loaded and can keep them and play them by artist, song, or genre. I have 2 sections for jazz, plus categories like broadway, classics, soft piano, etc. We have near 1000 songs on the flash drive. As for the CD, we use it for audio books and nothing else. It seems they've fixed the "cd eating" problem.

Good Luck.

 

How did you organize/load the flashdrive? Which program did you use? Were you able to make playlists? or did you just copy the cd's to the drive? did you convert the cd's to mp3 or just cd audio tracks?
Thanks!

 

I had to run a couple of errands, yesterday, and ran a commercially recorded CD through the radio, while I was driving. Thankfully, it worked OK.

 

Can someone please provide detailed instructions on how to put music on a flashdrive then use it in the car? Please see my post above...

 

You know what an USB-stick is ?

What is your source ? Do you want convert CD's you once bought ? Then you need a PC with an CD/DVD player.

You have to be more explicit since the options are endless.

Assuming you have a laptop/desktop with a CD/DVD drive, you can follow this manual..

https://www.dummies.com/computers/op...-media-player/

If this is 'chinese' to you, ask any teenager around. Most know how to do it or learn you an alternative in 5 minutes.

 

I know how to get files on the flashdrive. My questions involve the flashdrive and the car stereo system. Will the flashdrive download the cd's into the car's memory? Will the flashdrive have to remain plugged in to play the files on it? How does the process work?

 

The idea is that a USB-stick stays in the slot. It is better not to download [ most car this functionality doesn't seem to function at all anyway..].

So if you can make MP3 files from the songs on your CD and store them [ less memory space, MP3=compression ], you can make a playlist by editing the name of the mp3 file and put "001 ; 002 ; 003 " so the sequence is what you like.
Otherwise the songs are organised alphabetical en played in that sequence.

 

Will get on it!