Music In the GTi

[matchboy]

I will be using my iPhone. Does anybody know / have any experience using Spotify?! Will it work and will it give me album art?

I was unable to get it to work with the audi BT in the new a3.

Balls.  This sounds annoying!  There must be a way around it, unfortunately I am not a tech person so I think some googling/youtube is in order!

[monkeyhanger]

If you cant see how long a track is it means you have too high a bit rate.

Or variable bitrate (VBR) tracks - my RCD510 does not know how long a VBR track is.

Keep an eye out on places like "Hotukdeals" for decent deals on SD cards. I got a 64Gb class 10/UHC XCSD Sandisc card for £23 (for my camera) at a time they were going for about £70. Should be able to get an ample 32Gb card of a reputable make for £17-20 if you shop around.

The capacity recognition for the Audio unit in a Golf will probably be HC-SD (32Gb max) rather than XC-SD I would expect, so going beyond 32Gb will probably be a waste of money.

[matchboy]

The capacity recognition for the Audio unit in a Golf will probably be HC-SD (32Gb max) rather than XC-SD I would expect, so going beyond 32Gb will probably be a waste of money.

This is good info, ta.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Keep an eye out on places like "Hotukdeals" for decent deals on SD cards. I got a 64Gb class 10/UHC XCSD Sandisc card for £23 (for my camera) at a time they were going for about £70. Should be able to get an ample 32Gb card of a reputable make for £17-20 if you shop around.

The capacity recognition for the Audio unit in a Golf will probably be HC-SD (32Gb max) rather than XC-SD I would expect, so going beyond 32Gb will probably be a waste of money.

Amazon periodically has large discounts too.  I often dump things like this in my "basket" then log in once a day.  If they drop in price you get a little "item you have in your basket has changed in price" message.  Got 2x 64GB SD cards for £35 about a year back IIRC.

Anyway, I was looking for the Discover Pro Nav Manual but couldn't find it (anyone manage to?), but I did come across a link to a skoda nav unit that looks very very similar... i.e. probably its the same.
http://ws.skoda-auto.com/OwnersManualService/Data/en/Octavia_5E/11-2012/Navigation/Columbus/A7_Octavia_Columbus_InfotainmentNavigation.pdf

(EDIT: anyone able to confirm if the Skoda Columbus is the same as the VW Pro Nav?)

From page 23 the compatible formats are:
SD, SDHC, SDXC

[peterdoherty]

Amazon periodically has large discounts too.  I often dump things like this in my "basket" then log in once a day.  If they drop in price you get a little "item you have in your basket has changed in price" message.  Got 2x 64GB SD cards for £35 about a year back IIRC.

or you can set an amazon price alert using http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ to get an email when something drops below your 'desired' price

[Bill_the_Bear]

Amazon periodically has large discounts too.  I often dump things like this in my "basket" then log in once a day.  If they drop in price you get a little "item you have in your basket has changed in price" message.  Got 2x 64GB SD cards for £35 about a year back IIRC.

or you can set an amazon price alert using http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ to get an email when something drops below your 'desired' price

Awesome!

[monkeyhanger]

From page 23 the compatible formats are:
SD, SDHC, SDXC

SDXC? The sky's the limit for stored tracks then. I currently have thousands of tracks on a 16Gb USB stick and it is nowhere near full.

[CraigW]

I've never used an SD card to store music so can anyone recommend which one to go for?

[monkeyhanger]

I've never used an SD card to store music so can anyone recommend which one to go for?

I would stick with Sandisk, Samsung or Kingston for reliability.

[JoeGTI]

The RNS 510 had a 2GB limit on SD cards. Do the new units in the MK7 allow larger SD cards?