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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: mcmaddy on 16 April 2020, 09:36
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If and when my new car turns up I've just gone for standard nav this time having pretty much always had nav pro. I know a lot of people stream music via phones etc but what process are people using to put music onto SD card to play in the car? Does album art work show etc? I've got a lot of MP3 files of music but I can't remember what to do to get a cd for example onto SD card or am I better just downloading from somewhere?
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The Carista MIB2 fitted to my Polo GTI+ (and recent Golfs, I believe) will take MP3s and FLACs from an SD card or USB stick formatted exFAT.
I download as it's quicker than ripping a CD. Usually the download comes with artwork. No biggie for me on the rare occasion it doesn't.
I just have a folder for each Artist, with album folder within, and the FLAC/MP3s within that.
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Cheers Matt, beginning to wish I'd gone for nav pro seeing as I know how it all works 😂
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Ok, I'm not particularly technical but have no problems on a GTi Performance with standard nav.....
I download any music I like from Amazon onto the home computer as an MP3 file ( how it comes from Amazon).
Shove an SD card in the SD card reader slot on the computer and copy across from downloads to SD card.
The album art always shows......
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Are these albums you've paid for Phil or just downloaded from Amazon music?
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You might be worrying about something that won't even happen! :grin:
Have you had an update?
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
Well I hope you enjoy it when (not if) you get it :smiley:
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It's the same process for all vw nab systems. Stick the files on a sd card, play them.
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
Ah ok, It's just started your post with IF which adds doubt :whistle:
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I download as it's quicker than ripping a CD. Usually the download comes with artwork. No biggie for me on the rare occasion it doesn't.
I just have a folder for each Artist, with album folder within, and the FLAC/MP3s within that.
Can I ask where you are downloading the music from?
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It's the same process for all vw nab systems. Stick the files on a sd card, play them.
I never did that on the nav pro. I put my cd's in and ripped them to the hard drive.
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
Ah ok, It's just started your post with IF which adds doubt :whistle:
I'm still sceptical with any info I get from VW :grin:
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
Ah ok, It's just started your post with IF which adds doubt :whistle:
I'm still sceptical with any info I get from VW :grin:
Fingers crossed for you!
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It's going to be built regardless Jim. I messaged someone from VW Germany who was quite high up not expecting an answer but he actually did. Just said that any vehicles that had been ordered and were in the pipeline would be built and delivered.
Ah ok, It's just started your post with IF which adds doubt :whistle:
I'm still sceptical with any info I get from VW :grin:
Fingers crossed for you!
cheers Jim 👍
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It's the same process for all vw nab systems. Stick the files on a sd card, play them.
I never did that on the nav pro. I put my cd's in and ripped them to the hard drive.
I never knew it could do that.
I knew you could copy files from the SD card to the hard drive, but its a pain in the bum and the drive is tiny vs modern SD card sizes and you still need to copy the stuff onto the card in the first place.
Clunky old out of date automotive technology as always.
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I'm maybe looking at a SSD drive to plug straight into the usb port. Small one obviously 😂
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You've caught me on the one day in the last ten in which I have used my car to take the less than 1 mile trip to the supermarket rather than looking longingly out of the window at it :smiley:.
SD cards work best if you have full albums. I ripped a load of mine from CDs when I first bought the car. One thing is that it doesn't work well with mix albums or anything where there isn't a gap between tracks as you will get a small pause between them.
When naming tracks I seem to recall it is best to use track number / name as the convention (eg. 1_trackname) in order that they play back in the right order. All tracks for a given album should be in the same folder. Most rippers will take care of the artwork for you.
I spent a fair bit of time prepping this before I got the car as I had a few months to wait for delivery, but to be honest since then all of my listening has been via Apple Music / Carplay or Spotify / Android Auto depending on the phone that I have had at the time.
Some photos of my slightly dusty car. A job for the weekend maybe.
With track playing
Edit: dropbox doesn't seem to want to render this one the right way round!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/i30s4jhldtukglx/track_view.jpg?raw=1)
Folder view.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4ofhylty0gpbep/Albumview.jpg?raw=1)
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I'm maybe looking at a SSD drive to plug straight into the usb port. Small one obviously 😂
I'd go with SD card. Big capacities are relatively cheap and you'll not find another use for your SD slot. A USB slot has plenty of other possibilities e.g. phone charging.
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Are these albums you've paid for Phil or just downloaded from Amazon music?
I never like a whole album. I just buy tracks from Amazon music. They seem to vary between 69p & 99p a track......
For not much money I can buy enough good tunez to last my entire journey to work without having to listen to Zoe Ball or Amanda Holden woffle sh1te inbetween tracks.
Sadly I can't get Jenni Falconer up here or I might listen to the radio..... :embarrassed:
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I'm maybe looking at a SSD drive to plug straight into the usb port. Small one obviously 😂
Might not work TBH. You can get funnies with those because they are slightly different to a memory stick at a low level.
The biggest SD card you can buy would surely be enough music anyway wouldn't it? You can get up to 1tb now (not sure if the car would support one that big mind you!)
Its not like its permanent anyway, you can always swap albums around - I do!
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I use a 512gb sdxc card no issues with my 2019 Nav. Other than the 30k track limit. 10k to a folder. I set it out in an A-Z fashion the albums under that. To mix albums you just need a track in the root of the say A folder to mix the A albums.