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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Rolfe on 22 September 2009, 15:36
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I can see from the instructrion manual that this should be possible, but I'm struggling. How do I get the RCD 310 to recognise my iPod playlists? Anybody know?
Just out of the box, I plugged the iPod in , and it started to play. Magic! Playing the opus I had been listening to when I had used the iPod previously. Track ID showing on the display and everything. However.
The only way I could find to change to a different playlist was to unplug the iPod, find the playlist I wanted using its own controls, and actually start the playlist playing. If I didn't go as far as that, it just reverted to the playlist it had been playing previously.
When I started to fiddle with it (as one does), the "menu" level I accessed was "Songs". This is useless squared. Who wants random tracks from "Parsifal" shuffled up with random tracks from the B Minor Mass and the Monteverdi Vespers and "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", and so on? I want to be able to switch to a different playlist without stopping, unplugging the iPod, and fiddling with that silly wheel.
It has just occurred to me that I really, really, want to be able to do this.
Last Christmas, I put my iPod through the washing machine. Silly me. It came out only a bit scratched, and working perfectly - apart from the screen. It's still possible to work it, but you need a list of what every click does, working blind, and with a following wind you might end up in the playlist you want.
Well, I couldn't go on like that, so I bought a new one, refurb off eBay. The old one has just been lying on my desk, 8Gb of expensive memory stick.
However, you see where I'm going? If this will work properly via the RCD 310's screen, including the ability to change from one playlist to another, I have a perfectly functional iPod I can leave in the car permanently, and I can keep the fully-functional model in my pocket where it belongs.
Help!
Rolfe.
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Where's the pics of your car Rolfe, come on give us a peek.
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http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=121668.220
Now tell me about the bloody playlists, Einstein!
Rolfe.
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Use the right knob to scroll to playlists :wink:
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Yippee-de-doo-dah.... :cool:
I don't quite know what I did, and I'm totally at sea with the instruction booklet, but somehow, it did it.
It scrolls awfully slowly down the playlists, and I've got an awful lot of them, but it does the job. It's going to take a while if I want to play Wagner, that's all.... :cool:
Thanks a million.
Rolfe.
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http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=121668.220
Now tell me about the bloody playlists, Einstein!
Rolfe.
Absolutely gorgeous Rolfe !
Einstein ? Mr Einstein to you. :laugh:
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I can't say I knew that fubared iPod would come in handy some day. Actually, I wasn't sure why I kept it lying on my desk, because it wasn't as practical as an ordinary memory stick. It just seemed a shame to throw it away. And of course, it was always memory.
But hey, it's found its role in life! :cool:
Rolfe.
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Sigh. It worked, but it didn't work.
The f-ed up iPod seems to have more wrong with it than just the screen. It plays normally through the headphones (if you can find a track, working blind), but when I connect it to the computer I get a few error messages before it will talk to iTunes. As it does always talk to iTunes in the end I thought it would be OK, but when I connected it to the RCD 310, all I got was "No Audio Files".
I'm so taken with this idea, I wonder if I might just look on eBay and see if there are any cheap refurbed iPods going this week....
Rolfe.
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Have you tried formatting or restoring settings via itunes?
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Have you tried formatting or restoring settings via itunes?
Might be worth it. I haven't tried a lot, because I find iTunes horribly unintuitive, not to mention restrictive (why can't I back-copy playlists on the iPod to another computer also registered to that iPod?). But I'll investigate.
Rolfe.
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I admit itunes is horrible, if your looking at replacing it though then i'd defo try this first as i think it will work. Connect to itunes with your ipod plugged in, on the left hand side where it says your ipod click it and then it should show a picture of your ipod with software info, memory info and so on. Underneath where it says check for updates should be reset settings, be warned that you will lose everything saved to it and all settings will be reverted to factory settings
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Good plan.
The reason I was trying to avoid that is just silly. A couple of years ago when I got that iPod, I didn't have iTunes initially. My home computer was on a slow dial-up at the time, and eventually it took hours to download over several sessions. I didn't have admin privileges for my office computer. A friend took the iPod and copied over some files from her own computer for me to play with, and she also bought me something from the iTunes store using her own identity.
Because of that, I have never been able to move these files off that iPod to either of my own computers. It wasn't an expensive purchase, and I suppose I should just buy it again, but it's the principle of the thing.
If I do as you suggest, I'll lose that purchase. But I can restore all my other playlists, so I'm just being silly. I can't play it, practically, anyway.
Rolfe.
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But your going to lose it either way, if you cant transfer then even if you buy a new ipod your out of pocket and still cant transfer it. Itunes is pants tbh, i try my hardest not to use it. If it works then dont forget to thank me as potentially i saved you some money :grin:
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But your going to lose it either way, if you cant transfer then even if you buy a new ipod your out of pocket and still cant transfer it. Itunes is pants tbh, i try my hardest not to use it. If it works then dont forget to thank me as potentially i saved you some money :grin:
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Thank you? I kiss your boots!
Worked perfectly. Now all I have to do is transfer the playlists back.
(Well, OK, my music collection is a bit of a mess because of stupid filenames which I changed, and probably didn't do it the right way, but that's a completely different can of worms. The playlists work and that's the main thing.)
Rolfe.
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My boots are abit filthy so you may have to clean them first :grin: Glad it worked, tbh i knew it would :wink:
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:smiley: :smiley:
The software asked me to name the iPod again. It's now called "Prospero's iPod" - see thread on naming cars!
Rolfe.
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Great stuff :nerd: :grin:
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Yes, we definitely have a result. I just loaded all the playlists I have on this computer back onto the reset unit, and it's in the car and playing away merrily.
It's quite unintuitive to find your way around the menus, and it has a disconcerting habit of playing what seem to be absolutely random tracks from anywhere at all while you're finding what you want, but I can find the playlists and play the playlists, and that's what matters! :cool:
Is my car the only one with its very own personal iPod?
Rolfe.
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Yes, we definitely have a result. I just loaded all the playlists I have on this computer back onto the reset unit, and it's in the car and playing away merrily.
It's quite unintuitive to find your way around the menus, and it has a disconcerting habit of playing what seem to be absolutely random tracks from anywhere at all while you're finding what you want, but I can find the playlists and play the playlists, and that's what matters! :cool:
Is my car the only one with its very own personal iPod?
Rolfe.
Not quite an iPod, but similar: found an old passport harddrive which seems to work OK as dedicated storage...although the ID3 tags arent displaying like if I had my iPod connected :sad:
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Yippee-de-doo-dah.... :cool:
I don't quite know what I did, and I'm totally at sea with the instruction booklet, but somehow, it did it.
It scrolls awfully slowly down the playlists, and I've got an awful lot of them, but it does the job. It's going to take a while if I want to play Wagner, that's all.... :cool:
Can you not twiddle the knob in the opposite direction? IE: A > Z > Y > X > W ?? :undecided:
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Uh, yes, I figured that out later! :nerd:
The problem was that there's an unwanted playlist called "on-the-go" that I can't get rid of, and that's the one that comes up first if you scroll backwards. It was only later that I realised that "Wolfstone" and "Wagner: Parsifal" were what I got to if I went back beyond that.
Does all pop music come in little bite-sized chunks with no relationship to each other? Why is the iPod so aggressively designed to take tracks out of context and mix them up with each other? It seems to make it as difficult as possible for the user to keep longer pieces of music together. What about musicals? It's not just operas and symphonies and oratorios that get split into tracks that make no sense out of context.
When I turn the thing on, every time I'm forced to listen to the same random chunk of "Parsifal" while I navigate the unintuitive menus, simply because the first word sung in the track is "Aber" (it's obviously alphabetical). It seems to have no care at all that many people will want to listen to music in integrated packages that are more than a track long.
It's completely bizarre.
Rolfe.
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Hi Rolfe,
From the post it looks like you managed to be able to browse your Ipod platlists on the RCD 310 using the right knob on the front panel. When I do this it just scrolls the songs not playlists. Do you have any ideas?
Thanks,
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You have to press the button marked "up" or top" - I'm not sure which, and it may be that both work. At that point it should show the word "Songs". Don't press any more buttons, go for the right knob. It will scroll through folders at that point, and eventually you'll get to one called "Playlists". At that point press the button marked "open". That should get you into your list of playlists. THEN use the knob again to scroll through the playlists, and when you get the one you want, press "Play All".
I'm doing that from memory, but I had to do it earlier this evening so I think I've got it right. It's not exactly intuitive I have to say.
Rolfe.