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I have some M4A music files that I downloaded onto my PC using I-Tunes. In addition to listening to them on my I-pad and I-pod, I would like to put them on the hard drive in my Roc. Can I simply copy them onto an SD card and then copy them onto the hard drive?? Or would I have to use a USB flash drive instead? Will the player actually recognise this format too???? Very confused!!!

I don't quite know about the final stage of copying to the hard drive as i don't have sat nav, but i believe you will be able to... but standard Apple files play just fine from an SD Card... Apple Lossless files sadly do not

You just go the systems file browser and copy from there as you would with MP3. I've not tried M4A, but if it plays them, it's the same way.

Just try it and find out. Then let the rest of us know

Ok guys - will let you later! Cheers....

Well it doesn't work! The M4A files do not appear on the SD card. I will have to convert them tonight to MP3 on my PC...

ive tried copying M4A files to various devices before, but none of them worked on any other device apart from anything made by apple. Its the drm encryption embeded in the files. just use my ipod in the car. Never bothered to try and convert them to mp3.

I also tried M4A files when I first got my unit - no luck.
According to the manual, the unit will only read MP3 files and unprotected WMA files (no DRM)
The unit supports MP3 files with bit rates of between 32 kBit/s and 320 kBit/s, as well as MP3 files with variable bit rates.

If the M4A files are DRM protected then they will only play on Apple approved devices and on nothing else.
I've got M4A tracks on my external hard drive which is plugged in to the Media in USB socket and they all play fine. But these are M4A files that iTunes has created in converting WMA files and these are not protected.
Just another point - someone else stated in another thread that M4A tracks (I think) will not play on the SD card although they will thru the USB Media in. It may be that the system cannot reconised M4a files on the SD card.

Thanks All - in I-Tunes you can actually convert the M4A to MP3 format just by right clicking on the track. Very simple & straightforward. :-)