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Offline p3asa

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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #20 on: 19 November 2009, 16:15 »

Have tried an 8GB SDHC (SanDisk I think).  With it very nearly full it takes the 510 up to 40 seconds to get going.  Presumably yours is a duff card?

It works fine in a camera and transfers files back and forth to the PC without a problem so not sure how it could be a duff card?

What class / specs is your SanDisk?
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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #21 on: 19 November 2009, 16:30 »
I have 25-30 albums on my 2gb card and it workfs fine, it only takes a few seconds on start up
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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #22 on: 19 November 2009, 16:44 »
I have 25-30 albums on my 2gb card and it workfs fine, it only takes a few seconds on start up

+1  ( In seperate folders by album. All in MP3 format,)
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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #23 on: 19 November 2009, 17:31 »
Could this problem be related to old firmware? I know that the latest version out now for the head unit is v2600. I will get my car next week so can finally play around with this myself. However, I´m planning to use a HDD linked to the Media-In interface in the armrest.
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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #24 on: 19 November 2009, 18:16 »
Bought my SD card 2day only a 2gb one, Got about 9 albums on it. No issues with startup. Just make sure you add folders one at a time to its own directory and there should be no probs

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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #25 on: 19 November 2009, 23:38 »
A quick update as I've been messing about with this tonight.

What I have been doing so far is putting my tracks in folders as such:

Artist folder ----- Album Folder(s) ----- tracks.

So I've maybe had 3 or 4 songs from each artist that have all come from different albums so each artist could have around 5 folders.

I had 400 different artists on my SD card so in theory could have had around 2000 folders!!!!

After RTFM  :grin: it states "Memory cards with max 500 folders and max 2048 files" so that was probably the reason for the lengthy (20 minute delay)

I deleted all but 100 artists that I knew only had 1 album folder so I now had a maximum 200 folders. Plugged it into the RCD510 and it only took around 1 minute to access.  :laugh: 
However I thought if I went up a selection or two I would get access to just a list of songs, the way I do with my ipod but it would only go as far back as "Artists" (which I can understand why now). Also doing it the way I had done it meant the songs would only play from that particular artist i.e. it was stuck in the Artist---Album---track and to move on to another song, I had to manually go up a selection or two to get another artist.

So I think after all that I have sussed it  :laugh:

However is there a way I can sort by artist or song the way I can with the ipod or am I best just to have no folders for artists that just have 1 or 2 songs?

How do folk arrange theirs?

Incidentally, I plugged in my card reader with the SDHC in through the MDI port and rather than take a minute to access it like the RCD510, it was accessed straight away!!!
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Re: Anyone using an SD Card for their music?
« Reply #26 on: 20 November 2009, 09:31 »
Glad to hear it worked for you.  I re-ripped most of my stuff in iTunes in higher quality (192kbps) than previously so probably wasn't hitting the limits in 8GB.

I don't think you can force it to work iPod style.  The only other tip I've seen is to have a 'launch' track in some of the higher up folders - if you then play that track and do Extras->Mix you can random play tracks in all the subfolders from that track.

I've found that having an iPod off the MDI is the least hassle for the way I want to listen.  Sound quality is fine for me using a Nano and stuff like playlists are much simpler to achieve.