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Qashowner
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Had a quick search with no luck, anyone know if the infotainment system on QQ's can play the above?

Had rather a strange thing happen, I downloaded all my music onto a memory stick and for some reason, as an example, I can only play one track from an album, the rest wont play. On further searching, I have found that many files, for some reason are in Apple 4 Audio and not MP3 so just wondering if this is the reason the fie wont play.
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Sorry, can’t help
I have all my Apple music on my iPhone for use in the car.
Additionally, never heard of Apple 4
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Is your music downloaded from iTunes? I think that's the proprietary compression format Apple use, but it's also a form of DRM (copy protection). I'm guessing the QQ can't play those files.
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If you just copied the downloaded Apple format files onto the usb they won’t play in the unit. (I think they’re m4a file type)
In iTunes you can convert and save a copy into mp3 or wma format and save those to the usb stick which will play fine.
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Thanks for the info, to make things worse I found a way to convert all the files to MP3, that is where it went wrong again :( although it said MP3 it actually converted the files to Mpeg. That wont even load onto a Fat32 thumb drive. I'll keep trying, it's only 1350 tracks, not a great deal, but the so called free converters usually do 50 tracks unless you buy their "professional" suite.
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Qashowner wrote: Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:24 am Thanks for the info, to make things worse I found a way to convert all the files to MP3, that is where it went wrong again :( although it said MP3 it actually converted the files to Mpeg. That wont even load onto a Fat32 thumb drive. I'll keep trying, it's only 1350 tracks, not a great deal, but the so called free converters usually do 50 tracks unless you buy their "professional" suite.
Look on YouTube you can convert them from ITunes.
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Doesn't VLC media player do the conversion free
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