Anyone using an SD Card for their music?

[p3asa]

Bought a 16Gb SDHC class 6 card the other day and put about 5Gb on it.

Put it in the car this morning going to work and for the whole 20 minute journey it said "Please wait accessing"

Coming home it was exactly the same so I decided to leave the ignition on and put it in the drive till eventually it accessed it.

When I pressed "selection" it went up a folder straight away, if I pressed it again to access the whole song list, it went back to the "Please wait accessing" screen for at least 10 minutes until I got p!ssed off with it and turned the bloody thing off.

Anyone using the SD slot? What capacity? And are you having any problems?

Incidentally the couple of songs I did listen to sounded a lot crisper than the songs via the ipod!

[flc1962]

sorry no usb with 5GB ish plays on switch on

[simonpolly]

2gb sd works fine no longer than 10 secs wait on switch on.

[VWKev]

Bought a 16Gb SDHC class 6 card the other day and put about 5Gb on it.

Put it in the car this morning going to work and for the whole 20 minute journey it said "Please wait accessing"

Coming home it was exactly the same so I decided to leave the ignition on and put it in the drive till eventually it accessed it.

When I pressed "selection" it went up a folder straight away, if I pressed it again to access the whole song list, it went back to the "Please wait accessing" screen for at least 10 minutes until I got p!ssed off with it and turned the bloody thing off.

Anyone using the SD slot? What capacity? And are you having any problems?

Incidentally the couple of songs I did listen to sounded a lot crisper than the songs via the ipod!

Whats the spec of your card ?

[p3asa]

2gb sd works fine no longer than 10 secs wait on switch on.

When I only had a around 20 songs on it was fine but since putting on 5Gb it is useless.
What a waste.

[p3asa]

Bought a 16Gb SDHC class 6 card the other day and put about 5Gb on it.............




Whats the spec of your card ?

You quoted it 
Class 6 is meant to be reasonably fast as well. Reason I picked it.

[VWKev]

Bought a 16Gb SDHC class 6 card the other day and put about 5Gb on it.............




Whats the spec of your card ?

You quoted it 
Class 6 is meant to be reasonably fast as well. Reason I picked it.

No I saw that, the class rating has to do with data transfer speeds, and nothing else. As I said, whats the spec of your card ? Read speed would be nice.

[p3asa]

Ah right. I thought they had changed the specs to a "Class" system to make it easier to understand.
Anyway here are the specs:
"Kingston Secure Digital High-Capacity Card (Class 6) 20MB/Sec. 133x Write"
http://www.kingston.com/flash/sdhc.asp?id=8

And its only 8Gb.

Totally useless. 20 minutes to access and then if you try and go up a couple of folders to "all songs" another 20 minutes!!

[VWKev]

Ah right. I thought they had changed the specs to a "Class" system to make it easier to understand.
Anyway here are the specs:
"Kingston Secure Digital High-Capacity Card (Class 6) 20MB/Sec. 133x Write"
http://www.kingston.com/flash/sdhc.asp?id=8

And its only 8Gb.

Totally useless. 20 minutes to access and then if you try and go up a couple of folders to "all songs" another 20 minutes!!

Had a quick browse, that shouldnt have any probs playing back. Did you format as fat32 ? Also, have you tried just 5 or 6 songs to see if it's the same ?

[p3asa]

Yeah fat32 and tried about 20 odd songs and it was only a couple of seconds to access.
It seems like it has to load every song again any time the head unit tries to access the SD card.

I'll maybe try another card reader as it was temperamental and may have caused problems when it formatted it.
Then I suppose I could just load 1Gb and test it 2Gb and so on to see what changes happen.

Other than that I haven't a clue how to remedy it.