Ford to offer iTunes tagging in their cars

In related news, GM finally installs an adapter in their cars so you can listen to music on an MP3 player.

If you look at the Syncâ„¢ site, you'll see that it works with almost all players, like the iPod and Zune, and USB drives, and most phones that play music, like the iPhone. And it plays most audio formats -- but not flac!!! ohmigod.

This is a Mac site, so the fact that it will offer this is highlighted. I'm sure it's worked out so that it will do much the same with any player that accepts tags and can buy things from the web. Why not?

And you may not know yet, but there's no DRM on an iPod or in iTunes any more, except for Audible and the film studios, who insist on DRM. Of course, those tracks play with Sync.

If this keeps people from farting around with Shazam/Midomi apps on their iPhone while driving then it should be a mandatory safety feature on all cars.

Ford needs to shut the hell up until they can offer a *MINIMUM* of 50 MPG in *EVERY* car they put on the road. We're about three decades overdue for that. I'm pretty sure we can manage to buy songs without any help from your R & D.

Is Ford working on an upgrade to the cup holders for 2020?

I can't stand Shazam... Yeah, it's free, but they put a whole different meaning on "you get what you pay for"... I got Midomi when it was free, but i'd have paid for it it's so good!!

That's interesting, just another way to intrude on people, I hope this is just optional and not a built in feature, I'll pass, I think i can remember the songs I like on my own thanks.

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The Fusion, the Mondeo and up to the previous model the Taurus, too, are/were actually all in the same size classification: mid-size (USA), large-family car (EuroNCAP and UK) or D segment (European Commission).

Only with the 2008 model the Taurus has been upgraded to full-size for the US, I understand. Oh, and the European Ford Fusion is something way different from the North-American model. Just Google it. ;-)

This is pathetic.

"Tagging" songs for later purchase. It's 2010 and Ford is offering the ability to "tag" tunes for later purchase. How many people are there on this planet who will use this option even once? 99% of the already cold-in-its-grave Clear Channel controlled FM consists of six songs. Five of them are Lady Gaga, the other is Miley Cyrus. Assuming a person DID want to buy one of those songs, and assuming they couldn't remember the song (having heard it eighteen times on the morning drive), are we assuming they are going to use something other than a piece of paper, or cellphone to note the song? Does Ford seriously believe a person will pull over or worse, attempt to manipulate some crappy steering wheel menu navigation tool while driving to click BUY IT on their radio?

And you just KNOW this won't be a one click thing. You just know. There will be like eight menus to navigate to buy one Lady Gaga song... LATER! Since you can't even purchase it right there. They're touting a feature to "flag" the song for later purchase.

Christ.

No wonder American auto makers are doomed.

Are they also going to have the ability to "flag" a bagel for later purchase at Safeway? "Flag" a coffee for purchase at Starbucks. All of these things sound so futuristic and cool until you realize that just going to a Starbucks drive-through, or walking into a Safeway, or just buying the song outright on your 3G connected iPhone is a whole hell of a lot easier than trying to use your FREAKING CAR as a $30,000 post-it.

Idiots.

That's actually a Euro-market Mondeo, not a Taurus. The new Taurus is much bigger, the Mondeo is closer to our Fusion in size.

The Sync voice nav dude is angry.