SD Card Startup in Bolero

[Pietra]

Not sure how many people use the SD card slot in the stereo but this seemed a good alternative to the MDI interace plus cable plus ... scenario.

However in practise the SD card seems to take forever to initialise.

I am using an 8 Gb card (apparenlty up to 32 Gb can be used) which is pretty much full.

i have tried to use minimal subdirectories within the folder system but it literally takes minutes

start up is the worse, but trying to change folder using selection is not that much better.

Has anyone else had this problem or have any tips on how to shortern the startup time

[Swallowtail]

I use a 32GB SD card in my RNS510 and it is pretty much instantaneous.

[K1W1]

I use a 32GB SD card in my RNS510 and it is pretty much instantaneous.

How much data is on it?

I have a 16GB card in my Bolero with around 3GB of music in a flat file system.
One short track on the root directory (30 seconds long) and then a directory for each album with I guess up to about 20 songs per directory.

I would say that my card takes 20 seconds to initialise it seems like ages but I guess it's not really that long.

I have around the same amount of music on my iPhone and my perception is that that initialises quicker through the MDI.

FWIW I have the single track on the root directory to overcome the Bolero's strange "Mix" function. If you select Mix it will randomly play all tracks in a directory before it then goes and plays randomly from other directories. By having the short track in the root I start that then push Mix then just get random tracks.

[Pietra]

on the 8 Gb card i have 7.98 Gb - road trip to Canberra planned for the weekend - while i don't have a flat directory its no more than 1 subfolder deep (artist, followed by Album)

[JAZ_RS]

My card is an 8Gb and loads pretty much straight away. I have noticed when flicking through directories that some times it says can't read, yet it starts playing the tracks.

[TuNeS]

i have a 32gb SDHC card that is 16gb full. Same issue which peeved me off at first, however I am used to it now. The only pain is when it initialises when you first start the car. After that, if you need to surf directories, the music keeps playing while you get the delay, so it isnt that bad. The time delay to change CD's would be greater.

I didnt get the MDI interface and I am not paying the cost to get it installed.

But the SD card did get me to rockhampton and back without hearing the same song twice!

[dazag]

You do know not all SD cards are the same, there is Cat 3 & cat 4 cards which are 3Mb/s & 4 Mb/s data transfer cards or you can get the Extreme & Extreme 3 which I think is 20Mb/s & 30Mb/s data transfer rates. You may find you have an older SD card that doesnt have the higher transer rates which maybe causing the slow initialise??
Just a thought

[TuNeS]

Thats only really an issue when writing to the card in a SLR camera. The SDHC card i have is a Sandisk Ultra 2 which suffers the same latency unfortunately. The bolero isnt the fastest reader when you have high amounts of data.

[K1W1]

You may find you have an older SD card that doesnt have the higher transer rates which maybe causing the slow initialise??
Just a thought

Older SD cards are all below 2GB. All the cards people are talking about here are actually SDHC cards and have faster although variable transfer rates. I am going to try a faster card at some stage but i don't think that is really the problem. I think the problem is the firmware in the Bolero more likely. Overall I don't really find it to be a major issue just a "quirk". I can live without music for 20-30 seconds.

[Pietra]

SDHC 2 - 8 GB

it feels longer than 20 to 40 seconds so will have to take the time to time it

i suspect that on that basis of peoples response (including a thread on Briskoda) that the Bolero is a bit slow to startup, and because i have pretty much filled the card to capacity it doesn't help

only other thing i can think of is the whole fat32 formating requirement that the manual states as a requirement for cards <2Gb but i have no idea how to even check that - random clicking in the properties section hasn't really revealed anything

thanks for all your input though - much appreciated