Mitch1972 Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I finally got my White 2011 Ford Edge Sport AWD yesterday - I've only driven it very briefly and have spotted none of the obvious problems (yet) Other than a slight scratch on the Speedo glass, and a couple of unsmooth leather work areas on the passenger seat, I've 100% satisfied. I knew living out here now that the Nav would be a no-go, but I still have my trusty Garmin (so don't really care) - the MFT and Sync seem fine - I'm guessing I have 2.8 since it was built in May/June and there's none of the infamous lag on mine. USB works fine! Speech recognition works very well with my British English accent to. A couple of differences I've noticed from what I was expecting (not necessarily hoping) is no privacy glass (it might have something to do with the tinting laws here, although, I notice older imports here do have the privacy glass. No matter, I've just put 3M 50% - looks great! (which is technically illegal here - 35% blocking is the max) on the sides and back and didn't have to worry about matching up. The mirrors are chrome not body colour, again, I had no preference so don't care. I've just bought WD 500G harddrive to transfer all my music, I'll spend today tagging the music properly so I can take advantage of the speech recognition (which I think is a fantastic feature). I post some photos later - but it's pretty much factory other than the tints. Future investments - Hids - not a fan of the yellowish glow - not with a white car! Clear windshield/screen film to keep the car cool - Dubai is basically a desert after all. This afternoon - I'll try and get my head around the keyless entry fob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I finally got my White 2011 Ford Edge Sport AWD yesterday - I've only driven it very briefly and have spotted none of the obvious problems (yet) Other than a slight scratch on the Speedo glass, and a couple of unsmooth leather work areas on the passenger seat, I've 100% satisfied. I knew living out here now that the Nav would be a no-go, but I still have my trusty Garmin (so don't really care) - the MFT and Sync seem fine - I'm guessing I have 2.8 since it was built in May/June and there's none of the infamous lag on mine. USB works fine! Speech recognition works very well with my British English accent to. A couple of differences I've noticed from what I was expecting (not necessarily hoping) is no privacy glass (it might have something to do with the tinting laws here, although, I notice older imports here do have the privacy glass. No matter, I've just put 3M 50% - looks great! (which is technically illegal here - 35% blocking is the max) on the sides and back and didn't have to worry about matching up. The mirrors are chrome not body colour, again, I had no preference so don't care. I've just bought WD 500G harddrive to transfer all my music, I'll spend today tagging the music properly so I can take advantage of the speech recognition (which I think is a fantastic feature). I post some photos later - but it's pretty much factory other than the tints. Future investments - Hids - not a fan of the yellowish glow - not with a white car! Clear windshield/screen film to keep the car cool - Dubai is basically a desert after all. This afternoon - I'll try and get my head around the keyless entry fob. I haven't had luck with portable HDDs, let me know if you get it working. Best I've had luck with was a 16GB USB 3.0 stick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch1972 Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I haven't had luck with portable HDDs, let me know if you get it working. Best I've had luck with was a 16GB USB 3.0 stick I'll let you know tomorrow, I finished the tagging and connected it up for about half an hour - it was up to 2500 of 11,500 when I got bored of waiting, I left it connected so hopefully, it'll carry on syncing the rest. It didn't like the new HDD3.0, so I used an older 2.0 one, but still 500GB. Finger crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I'll let you know tomorrow, I finished the tagging and connected it up for about half an hour - it was up to 2500 of 11,500 when I got bored of waiting, I left it connected so hopefully, it'll carry on syncing the rest. It didn't like the new HDD3.0, so I used an older 2.0 one, but still 500GB. Finger crossed I'm interested to know. Right now, my solution consists of using Google Music through my phone. It's nice to have access to all of my 7000+ songs without carrying anything extra around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny2525 Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Wait you can store music on your Edge? I thought the Edge didn't have an hard drive? I also, like cal3thousand, use Google Music and I love it. But if you can store music on the Edge without any hardware, that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Wait you can store music on your Edge? I thought the Edge didn't have an hard drive? I also, like cal3thousand, use Google Music and I love it. But if you can store music on the Edge without any hardware, that would be great. He bought a HDD and is going to try to connect it via USB. I haven't had previous luck with that. So I use G Music or my USB stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch1972 Posted July 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 I haven't had luck with portable HDDs, let me know if you get it working. Best I've had luck with was a 16GB USB 3.0 stick Yes it works perfectly :happy feet: It must've taken about 45 minutes to completely index - it seemed to be stuck at 2500 or so, I just ignored it, then after a while it said indexing complete, and then began building the voice command data for each track - I think that must've taken about 10 minutes (for the 11,000 tracks) I'm glad I spent the time yesterday properly tagging - I used a program Helium 8, which is an audio manager, it lets you tag by file name, I just went for the Artist first, then the song, but you can also add Album, track number, Album art if you want. The HDD is a Western Digital 500GB USB 2.0 - I deleted the handling software, so for all intense and purposes, it's just a generic storage device. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Yes it works perfectly :happy feet: It must've taken about 45 minutes to completely index - it seemed to be stuck at 2500 or so, I just ignored it, then after a while it said indexing complete, and then began building the voice command data for each track - I think that must've taken about 10 minutes (for the 11,000 tracks) I'm glad I spent the time yesterday properly tagging - I used a program Helium 8, which is an audio manager, it lets you tag by file name, I just went for the Artist first, then the song, but you can also add Album, track number, Album art if you want. The HDD is a Western Digital 500GB USB 2.0 - I deleted the handling software, so for all intense and purposes, it's just a generic storage device. Good luck Wow! I'm stoked for ya! Thanks for all the info. I'm tempted to give it another go since I have a WD 320GB and a WD 500GB. May I ask you the folder structure (all songs in root folder/in album folders) and partition File system you used (FAT or FAT32)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch1972 Posted July 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Wow! I'm stoked for ya! Thanks for all the info. I'm tempted to give it another go since I have a WD 320GB and a WD 500GB. May I ask you the folder structure (all songs in root folder/in album folders) and partition File system you used (FAT or FAT32)? FAT 32 - no folders, all single tracks dropped straight onto HDD Give it a try 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal3thousand Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 FAT 32 - no folders, all single tracks dropped straight onto HDD Give it a try Going to retag all my music and try it again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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