Music In the GTi

[CraigW]

Joe,

You're right about the dealers being clueless.  Here are the mistakes mine has just made in the last 10 minutes:

1) Emailed me with useless brochure when I asked for the manual
2) Ignored that I asked about Radio, 5.8 inch Nav and Pro Nav and just responded about the "unit you have ordered"
3) Claimed SD cards come with the nav unit
4) Claimed they were mistaken, SD cards do not come with the 8 inch unit (but implied they think they are included with the 5.8 inch unit, wtf?)
5) Sent me link to VW website with no information about SD cards whatsoever
6) Called me "Mr Edwards" (that is not my name!)

 

I've reiterated my question is about removable SD cards for playing music etc, that they come in various formats and its important to know what is compatible, and asked that the dealer contact VW for a definitive answer.

Grrr... getting a straight answer is like pulling teeth!  I'm gonna get one though!![/quote]

Look on the bright side Mr Edwards, at least they got your gender right   

[Bill_the_Bear]

Look on the bright side Mr Edwards, at least they got your gender right   

You make a good point!  I was lucky to get that much, hehe.

[MEZZA22]

On the subject of music format options,I recall seeing posts on the MK6 forum about sound quality and how the
best QUALITY sound is still from a CD as it isnt compressed.I love my RCD 510 with its 6 disc changer and still only
play CD's but I did borrow a usb stick once and downloaded some tracks I also had on cd and you could tell the difference (I have Dynaudio) playing them one after the other,the cd having a less harsh tone compared to playing
the same track via the usb stick.
As I will probably be changing to a MK7 at some point,and it only has a single cd in the glovebox,what is
best format of all the various options for sound quality ?

[Sootchucker]

Well I don't know if  this helps, but I pulled a couple of my SDHC 32Gb Sandisk cards from the Scirocco that I use for the RNS-510, and tried them in the dealers GTI with the Discover Nav Pro, and they worked great. All album art displayed and all tracks on both cards immediately accessible.

[Bill_the_Bear]

On the subject of music format options,I recall seeing posts on the MK6 forum about sound quality and how the
best QUALITY sound is still from a CD as it isnt compressed.I love my RCD 510 with its 6 disc changer and still only
play CD's but I did borrow a usb stick once and downloaded some tracks I also had on cd and you could tell the difference (I have Dynaudio) playing them one after the other,the cd having a less harsh tone compared to playing
the same track via the usb stick.
As I will probably be changing to a MK7 at some point,and it only has a single cd in the glovebox,what is
best format of all the various options for sound quality ?

If you are playing via SD card, or USB, or USB HDD (if true you can do that) then can you not choose the level of compression you put on those storage devices?  I'm not too familiar with MP3 or if other options can be read by the Nav unit...

[JoeGTI]

What's the best way to organize music on an SD card for trawling through songs on the move? In folders according to artist / album?
Is there a freebie program out there that does all this tagging effortlessly for you? Otherwise its a pretty tedious task!

[Bill_the_Bear]

What's the best way to organize music on an SD card for trawling through songs on the move? In folders according to artist / album?
Is there a freebie program out there that does all this tagging effortlessly for you? Otherwise its a pretty tedious task!

I think we need the manual.  Or we can assume its the same as the mk6?

I posted the Skoda Nav manual earlier, I strongly suspect it is the same as the Pro Nav unit.  The A1 video someone posted shows how they did it too, though not the folder structure.

[monkeyhanger]

What's the best way to organize music on an SD card for trawling through songs on the move? In folders according to artist / album?
Is there a freebie program out there that does all this tagging effortlessly for you? Otherwise its a pretty tedious task!

The most efficient way of scrolling through minimal menus is probably Artist>Album>Tracks (if you have tons of stuff and like a lot of varied types of music then maybe do Genre>Artist>Album>Tracks) , although compilation albums could be maybe all together like Compilations>Album>Track.

[Bill_the_Bear]

My dealer sent me an extract of the Discover Nav Pro Manual... or at least that is what I think it is.  She got it from VW after I requested some info on the SD card format compatibility and so forth, but the page also talks about CDs and playlist files and formats and so on and so forth...



Unfortunately that is all I got.  Since they charge for these manuals (tight ) I think I was lucky to see the actual page at all!

[JoeGTI]

Looks like it will play apple / itunes formats, excellent. No format conversions needed.