Mk7 iPod Compatibility (MDI, Bluetooth etc)

[Roary]

Thanks for that!
i'll give it a go..... Might also turn around five times, touch my nose, and do a rain dance. Hopefully something will do the trick.

[GolfVII]

Big W, $60 for a 64 Gb SD card from Emtec, speed OK, quality of card OK. Pour all the music in folder by folder, thumbnails at 220x220 I'm told, stick it SD slot 2 in the glovebox (this is for a Highline with GPS). If you're OS x based (I'm dual nationality ), figure out how to get rid of the dot files. Works just like the iPod did on the Mk6 Golf, but you now have a surplus iPod probably . Playlists I can't help with.

On OS X just use iTunes to export your music to the SD card and you will not get the dot files. I made a play list and exported that play list with all the songs the first time, I have since purchased a SD card reader for my Windows box and now do it all from there as windows system files are always hidden and do not appear on the head unit like the Mac files do.

[AdamD]

On OS X just use iTunes to export your music to the SD card and you will not get the dot files.

Not true; the "dot" files are a factor of the operating system (OS X) and file indexing strategy on the Mac. OS X won't write them for every file or on every occasion, but it will when it deems it necessary.

I create playlists and transfer music to an SD card from my Mac using iTunes, and just wrote a quick shell script to delete the "dot" files before ejecting the SD card. If anyone wants the details I'm happy to post them.

[cheapasiangeo]

Not sure how accurate this information is but... ​Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Coming To Volkswagens This Year

Carplay!!!!!!!

[PBJ]

I don't get how people are happy with Bluetooth streaming? The quality is woeful compared to a USB, 3.5mm or SD card. Then again the factory stereo in the Golf 7 is woeful as well...

Sucks that they can't offer us even a paid option to get iPod connectivity.

[Moonee]

I don't get how people are happy with Bluetooth streaming? The quality is woeful compared to a USB, 3.5mm or SD card.

Interesting comment. I haven't noticed a downgrade of audio quality Bluetooth streaming music from my iPhone compared to playing from SD card. Both sound great.

Then again the factory stereo in the Golf 7 is woeful as well...

We mustn't be very audio fussy, very happy with the sound quality of the factory stereo in our standard GTI.

[PBJ]

Interesting comment. I haven't noticed a downgrade of audio quality Bluetooth streaming music from my iPhone compared to playing from SD card. Both sound great.

Well it all depends on the source quality. If your music is of the lossless compression type (eg CDs/FLAC/ALAC etc) then you'd definitely notice a difference compared to 128kbps off iTunes. Course since BT audio is above 128, theoretically it should sound the same no matter which input you use

We mustn't be very audio fussy, very happy with the sound quality of the factory stereo in our standard GTI.

Oh don't get me wrong, it's far from terrible. It's just sad that VW won't let customers pay to get the upgraded sound system like in the Mk VI due to simplifying the product or whatever. Actually I'm just melodramatic

[Ralfi]

I was given the impression by a dealer that the GTI model's USB port both charges & passes through audio. Could this be for newer builds only?

I found this out after I requested the charge cables - dealer said they're not needed as the port does everything through USB.....

[cheapasiangeo]

I was given the impression by a dealer that the GTI model's USB port both charges & passes through audio. Could this be for newer builds only?

I found this out after I requested the charge cables - dealer said they're not needed as the port does everything through USB.....

AFAIK its power only, no data.

[pbrowne]

I decided for music that I would put my entire music library on an SD card. To do so I rearranged my library by genre, then artist, then album. I also added my playlists from iTunes as text filed in the root of the SD card. This setup now works well and can also shuffle tunes well. Here's the instruction from another forum that I followed:

It is possible to do, but a little involved. What I'm explaining below has been done from memory, but should give you a start.

I also use iTunes on a Windows PC, and already had some playlists created within iTunes.

On my PC my music was in d:/iPod music/artist name/album name/song name.mp3

I copied all the folders from my PC to the SD card with everything except the /iPod music/ folder level. So, on my SD card the folders were artist name/album name/song name.mp3

From iTunes, I exported the required playlists which created a .m3u file which I then had to edit in notepad to remove all the d:/iPod music/ text from the start of each line within the .m3u file

The edited .m3u file was then copied to the root of the SD card (it can't be put in a folder)

The car should be able to read the .m3u file and pick up the required fields from the folders on the SD card.

There was a little trial and error getting the right format, but it worked in the end. For it to work, the folder structure on the PC and SD card does need to be quite similar.