RNS510 problems

[chris5150]

Hi all..new to the board, glad to have found it as looks like a great source of info. Just picked up a 2010 Golf GTD DSG, fully optioned up,very impressed with it indeed...not new I am the second owner, hence I did not spec it.
What I am not very impressed with however is the RNS510. THe sound quality is pretty good, its the dynaudio version.
What is not good is that firstly I seem to have lost a centre armrest MDI Ipod connection as I have a 6cd in there, would much rather have had the ipod..seems daft to not have that as well as a cd changer...is it possible there may e a connector in the glovebox?...I have looked and cannot see anthing, so unless its hidden not looking likely.
Not to worry copied a load of .wma files onto a 16gb HC SD card...nope that wont play either...even though in the handbook it indicates .wma files are ok, it seems from the posts here that the car dhas to be under 2gb & the files as mp3...which again is a right pain as I have a Bang & olufsen at home that plays .wma files...I then convert them into apple itunes to play on ipods, so last thing I want to do is have to convert them a third time to get them to play on the VW stereo...
Obviously well aware of the iphone issue as my phone wont connect....so overall not a happy chap with the VW system , pretty buggy & really surprised at how poor it is in the year 2010 on such a premium product.
Also would be nice to be able to change the colour scheme on the display from the awful red to something a little more subtle, again something that one doesnt seem to be able to do
Coming from a BMW with excellant phone & ipod connection this thing is extremely frustrating to say the least!

[p3asa]

Glad you found it Chris 

The unit can play wma files and you can use cards bigger than 2Gb exactly like the manual says. Don't suppose you know someone else with the RNS510 that you can check your card on their system?

The colour of the unit can be changed using VAG.COM software and a lead.
There are 3 different colour schemes you can have
http://picasaweb.google.de/sportline155/RNS510Mod09#
The lead is not cheap to purchase but there are a good few souls out there willing to do it for you for some beer money 

Like I said in my previous post, the Fiscon integrates the ipod without any issues.

[chris5150]

Thanks for the info, very useful. Not sure what you mean by:-
Like I said in my previous post, the Fiscon integrates the ipod without any issues.

previous post?...Fiscon?...sorry if I am being thick here!

So just to clarify then the unit should work with an HC SD card of 16gb loaded with .wma files?....I dont understand it as I fully formatted the card to FAT32 last night, and then loaded up a few albums. THe unit just seems to be flicking through the songs one after another, like its looking at them all, doesnt play, if I then select a track with the drop down box & press play, it says 'files in wrong format' or words to that effect. Strangely it does show the track names as it flicks through them in a continous loop.
It doesnt just go through them all for a while at first or something does it?
Again thanks for you help, will look at how much a vag lead costs etc

[p3asa]

Thanks for the info, very useful. Not sure what you mean by:-
Like I said in my previous post, the Fiscon integrates the ipod without any issues.

previous post?...Fiscon?...sorry if I am being thick here!

On the golfmk6.com thread I replied regarding the Fiscon unit.

I've not used wma files for a while but know I had no problem with the few that I did use. If I get a chance this afternoon I'll put some on an SD card and give it a go.

[chris5150]

Oh right, sorry was a bit thick re the fishcon....will check it out
thanks

[p3asa]

I put a dozen or so .wma files on my SD card and it would only play 1 of them. It listed them all but when I tried to play the others it said they were encrypted and couldn't be played or words to that effect.

That's what I bloody get for actually paying to download them via iTunes.
What a joke, I can't even get to play my own paid for music!!!!! No wonder torrent sites are so popular.
**Lesson learned.

So to answer your question, are your wma files encrypted?

[chris5150]

Good question..I dont think so, cd's were ripped using Bang & Olufsen's beoplayer software, they are stored on my PC in a music folder on the desktop, all as wma files...It doesnt actually give me a message saying encrypted in anyway...it says 'files in wrong format'.
When I get time I am going to convert a few to .mp3's and try again...
Thanks for having a go though

[p3asa]

It only gave a message when I tried to play the first file then just skipped through the rest, pausing at each one. It wasn't until I hit selection and tried each song individually that the message came up.

I wonder if your B&O software rips to a different .wma format?

[chris5150]

I wouldnt have thought so ....basically the beoplayer software is linked to a 500gb beomaster hard drive on the music system, when I rip a CD it rips is lossless ( .wma ) and sends one copy to the beomaster & saves a copy on the hard drive of my pc. The ones saved on the PC have always been accesible to me to rip to  cds and indeed I scanned from itunes and also converted them all into an itunes library..so it seems nothing else has a problem, and I see no reason why B&O would encrypt as its not like itunes, not buying anything, just using it as a vehicle to get music onto a hard drive..so as I say I cannot see it being encrypted.

To be honest I get really stalled with all this stuff, fed up of all the issues moving music about, nothing ever seems to work smoothly, Itunes files are a pain to work with, fed up of converting & mucking about...I would much rather just get rid of my 6cd stacker & have an ipod connected instead
Suppose my real dissapointment is in the golf system, really thought on a 2010 car the media centre would work easily & effectively without a load of fannying around...especially for the money the option costs..its miles behind the BMW idrive & audi MMI
Also cannot be bothered ripping the cds to the hard drive on the car as it takes ages & you have to name them all
....it seems the vw system has all the functions but none work or are very practical

[p3asa]

Never having had another car that had ipod connectivity in it from the factory, I don't know any different so I can only imagine this is a real pain.

Not sure what you mean by ripping CD's in the car that have to be renamed? Do you mean copying over to the hard drive in the car as you can't rip audio files onto the hard drive?

What I do is copy any music I want onto my SD card then copy them over to the hard drive. I either do this while out driving (it doesn't seem to effect the heads functions at all apart from a little unresponsive) or do it while the car is sitting in the drive switched off (mine seems to keep copying even although the unit is off)

Not sure about the naming, any name I have given the source material automatically transfers over to the copied material on the Hard drive.