Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[mortimerchris]

Yeah it's a great buy, and great to see people making good use of that SD card slot!

Yeah but what do you do with the other SD slot?

You put maps in it when you've hacked your regular head unit into Nav.

Are you grinning because this is possible? If so where is the guide?

[AAddict]

Yeah it's a great buy, and great to see people making good use of that SD card slot!

Yeah but what do you do with the other SD slot?

You put maps in it when you've hacked your regular head unit into Nav.

Are you grinning because this is possible? If so where is the guide?

I'm waiting for someone much clever than me to work out if it's possible. I reckon it's juts software plus a GPS antenna, but that's only a hunch.

[monkeyhanger]

Just got the Class 10 32GB Sandisk Ultra from Gizzmo Heaven for £15.53 using code Gizzmo5

http://www.gizzmoheaven.com/SanDisk-32GB-Ultra-Class-10-SDHC-Card-Memory-Card-30MB-s/s199918/c581/Product.html

Just gave you some heat on hotuk deals. Not the best SD card deal i've ever got (Sandisk extreme III XCSD 80mbps 64Gb for £25), but best I can see right now and more than enough for the car.

[AAddict]

All credit to EliteBajan for this:

This looks very promising, a gadget that lets you mirror whatever your smartphone is doing on the VW head unit. Endless possibilities, second video on this post:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=245312.msg2372832#msg2372832

Anyone read Korean?

http://indiwork.co.kr/cart/?doc=cart/item.php&it_id=1375695673

[EliteBajan]

All credit to EliteBajan for this:

This looks very promising, a gadget that lets you mirror whatever your smartphone is doing on the VW head unit. Endless possibilities, second video on this post:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=245312.

Thanks for the props!!

It doesn't look like a cheap option though.


http://m.t3.com/news/kivic-one-brings-airplay-dlna-to-your-car

[Roonaldo]

New member, should be picking up my new GTI next week.

Was wondering how iTunes playlists were handled with the SD card, if at all?

[Gryzor]

New member, should be picking up my new GTI next week.

Was wondering how iTunes playlists were handled with the SD card, if at all?

Hi, and welcome to the forums!

I don't honestly know - I've read around and can't see anything about supporting playlists from the SD card.  Maybe somebody here who owns one can test or confirm one way or the other? Failing that I'll have a test myself after I get my GTI on Sunday.  I don't have many playlists, but am I intrigued myself now as I'll be using an SD card for my music.

Clearly if you are streaming from your phone via a playlist, that will work just fine.

[Roonaldo]

New member, should be picking up my new GTI next week.

Was wondering how iTunes playlists were handled with the SD card, if at all?

Hi, and welcome to the forums!

I don't honestly know - I've read around and can't see anything about supporting playlists from the SD card.  Maybe somebody here who owns one can test or confirm one way or the other? Failing that I'll have a test myself after I get my GTI on Sunday.  I don't have many playlists, but am I intrigued myself now as I'll be using an SD card for my music.

Clearly if you are streaming from your phone via a playlist, that will work just fine.

Thanks, if you don't mind checking, please let me know as would prefer to use SD card. Think my date will be 2 or 3 weeks.

[Roonaldo]

New member, should be picking up my new GTI next week.

Was wondering how iTunes playlists were handled with the SD card, if at all?

Hi, and welcome to the forums!

I don't honestly know - I've read around and can't see anything about supporting playlists from the SD card.  Maybe somebody here who owns one can test or confirm one way or the other? Failing that I'll have a test myself after I get my GTI on Sunday.  I don't have many playlists, but am I intrigued myself now as I'll be using an SD card for my music.

Clearly if you are streaming from your phone via a playlist, that will work just fine.

Did you get your car? Bet you're loving it. Probably too busy, but any joy with checking this?

[Gryzor]

Did you get your car? Bet you're loving it. Probably too busy, but any joy with checking this?

I did get my car, and yeah, loving every minute of it!  I saw the thread and remembered about the playlist thing so I've had a bit of a play about.  Basically, I use iTunes for one thing, and one thing only - to get my own music collection onto my iDevices.  So, I'm just going to assume that a playlist playing on your iPhone, streaming via Bluetooth will work just fine.  You can export playlists, but from what I read, the output will need tweaking.

However, I did manually create the simplest of playlists for use on an SD card as follows.

• Created a folder at the root of my SD card called #PlayLists so that it's at the top
• Created a TestPlayList.m3u file inside that folder
• Added a few entries in the format ..\artistfolder\albumfolder\songname.mp3

This worked absolutely fine.  All of my music is stored on my SD card in Artist/Album/Song format, but you may have your folders set up different so the paths you create inside the playlist would need to be altered to match.

I don't actually bother with playlists myself, but I know there is plenty of software out there that will create a standard .m3u playlist for you based on the songs that you want.