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Title: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: monsta on 13 September 2013, 11:17
Talks about file structure, album art and even DAB logos.

http://www.haydnwilliams.com/blog/vw-golf-mk7-sd-cards-and-album-art (http://www.haydnwilliams.com/blog/vw-golf-mk7-sd-cards-and-album-art)

Hope it helps some of you who already have your cars!  I for one am already prepping an SD card for mine  :wink:
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Exonian on 13 September 2013, 13:00
Really useful that, well done for posting it up.
Even a technical incompetent like me can almost make sense of that!!!

Maybe a good idea to copy this thread into the Maintenance and Tips section or if Jimble could move it so it stays nice and visible and can be added to as people discover new things.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: MM087 on 13 September 2013, 21:05
Gr8 post
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: simonpolly on 14 September 2013, 17:35
cheers works well
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: monkeyhanger on 16 September 2013, 07:49
I cannot get my SD card working at all. I have a mixture of mp3's and m4a's, the structure is right, amde sure each top level folder has less than 1000 files in it. Tried the card in NTFS and exFAT format (both slow and fast formatting). The card won't recognise a thing. Put a mixture of the same files on a USB stick and that won't work either, although my original USB stick out of the Scirocco works in the car, only recognising the mp3's on it and not recognising the folder contents for an album folder that contains m4a's.

Has anyone else had issues with m4a's not being recognised in their Golf?
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: MajorKhan on 23 September 2013, 16:07
what brand or type of memory card & USB are people using that are working? fat32 or....going to invest in a new 1 just for the GTD  :wink: , if it works for you it should work for me
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: double0 on 11 October 2013, 16:50
MajorKhan - if still looking for a card I got one of these which might be a bit OTT in spec for plain audio files but works fine in my new GTI - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32GB-32G-SANDISK-EXTREME-HD-SDHC-SD-HC-CLASS-10-45MB-S-MEMORY-CARD-RETAIL-PACK-/390643680548
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Pob17 on 04 April 2014, 18:13
Talks about file structure, album art and even DAB logos.

http://www.haydnwilliams.com/blog/vw-golf-mk7-sd-cards-and-album-art (http://www.haydnwilliams.com/blog/vw-golf-mk7-sd-cards-and-album-art)

Hope it helps some of you who already have your cars!  I for one am already prepping an SD card for mine  :wink:

My mac didn't want to play using terminal, so I used a piece of software called Blue Harvest to scrub the SD card of the 'invisible' files which show up on the screen in the car. Worked a treat.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: valvebounce on 25 April 2014, 21:34
I followed the how to but neither exfat nor ntfs worked, car just reported 'sd card not recognised', tried both quick and full formatting. So downloaded the 'official' sd card formatting program from here: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/) and formatted the card with the default settings, resulting in fat32 card. Works in the car fine. Card is £8 16gb class 4 card from amazon.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Rick101 on 26 April 2014, 08:26
I'll prob need some help with this. What size card you use as a minimum?

Say for 40 albums/500 average tracks?
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Rick101 on 26 April 2014, 09:15
I've downloaded the station logos from VW site in readiness. As I understand it you you allocate the logos to each station manually and then can remove the SD card. Thats suggests the logos are held in the cars internal memory.

How many station logos can the car hold in memory??

Thanks.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: mcmaddy on 26 April 2014, 22:15
15 or 18 I can't remember which.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Talk-torque on 09 May 2014, 07:30
I'll prob need some help with this. What size card you use as a minimum?

Say for 40 albums/500 average tracks?

You'd certainly get that onto a 4GB, SDHC card, but an 8GB won't cost much more and will give you scope for adding more. (You will want to!)
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: p9ul on 17 May 2014, 14:41

How many station logos can the car hold in memory??

Thanks.

15 stations can be stored for each of DAB, FM & AM - you can assign a logo to each so 45 in total.
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: sam1014 on 28 June 2014, 08:26
Hi guys, with regards to the SD card or USB stick, whats better to use? Or is it simply just personal preference? I generally use mini usb sticks for normal use, so i was just going to use one of them.

I've seen a 64gb Sandisk mini usb stick for £23.95  -  BARGAIN!!
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: Ross Detours on 04 July 2014, 15:15
64GB SD card - £20

I believe you don't get a USB connection unless you have spec'd the discover nav system.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-Premium-Memory-Frustration-free-Packaging/dp/B004XIB9T6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404482838&sr=8-2&keywords=64gb+sd+card
Title: Re: Great blog post about SD card usage in the Mk7
Post by: 914Phil on 04 July 2014, 20:21
I'm struggling a little with one part of this, I have done the station logos no problem other than having to format to fat32 as per one of the comments under the blog post. Now onto music and using media player have got music to the SD card but no album artwork. The artwork is showing on the media player on my PC. appreciate any ideas anyone has to assist?