Music on SD card

[jggolf]

I have loaded 3,104 mp3 music files on a compatible SD card (SDHC) and loaded it into my wife's new 2020 Golf Alltrack. The first 1500 or so can be seen in the file list and then the last 20. In between are "missing" and can't be played. I have tried a Lexar brand card and a Sandisk and no joy with either. Both cards are perfect in my 2014 Mitsubishi Pajero. When we were at the dealership I asked them to try the card in another 2020 Golf and they got the same result. The same thing happens with a Sandisk USB stick. My iPod classic works in the USB connection perfectly with all music available. Well brains trust, any ideas? VW have none and I am pissed off that a brand new VW is trumped by my 2014 Mitsubishi Pajero.

[Hillbilly]

What headunit has it got as in a Discover Pro you can only load 1000 tracks into it at a time.

I had 1600 on a stick and it loaded the first 1000 and then stopped I ended up putting the remaining 600 on a different stick and it loaded them Ok HAve been able to load more smaller amount in later but it is about 70% full now so havent worried with any more

[The_Hawk]

Does it work if they are in different folders with 1,000 in each? Or just total on the memory card/stick?

Plan B. Pick up an old iPod (or even iPhone) and use that just for car music (which is what I used to do before I just moved to streaming everything). Yes it means screwing about with iTunes to update stuff but it's not that bad for just dumping everything and you can even use the smart playlists and WiFi sync.

[Hillbilly]

Does it work if they are in different folders with 1,000 in each? Or just total on the memory card/stick?

Plan B. Pick up an old iPod (or even iPhone) and use that just for car music (which is what I used to do before I just moved to streaming everything). Yes it means screwing about with iTunes to update stuff but it's not that bad for just dumping everything and you can even use the smart playlists and WiFi sync.

Doubt it ,but I have about 6000 individual tracks on my HDD and just picked a selection of them You can I think put a card or USB in and read off that without putting on the units HDD

I dont use Apple stuff ever

[jggolf]

Does it work if they are in different folders with 1,000 in each? Or just total on the memory card/stick?

Plan B. Pick up an old iPod (or even iPhone) and use that just for car music (which is what I used to do before I just moved to streaming everything). Yes it means screwing about with iTunes to update stuff but it's not that bad for just dumping everything and you can even use the smart playlists and WiFi sync.

My old iPod 160GB Classic works just fine in the Alltrack. What cheeses me off is that a 2020 Volkswagen vehicle has a worse media player than my 2014 Pajero! FFS My wife has an ancient 16Gb iPod Mini so I will just update that to a 128GB iPod Touch and it's sorted. VW media systems suck!

[Hillbilly]

Just put them on 999 at a time and you will get them all on I would delete the lot and start again. Its easier I found than doing 1 at a time.

With mine on shuffle i can drive an hour or so and never here the same track. You can also make up playlists from within them if you want to or select from the Jukebox.

Is a far better unit than previous cars RNS 510

[jggolf]

Just put them on 999 at a time and you will get them all on I would delete the lot and start again. Its easier I found than doing 1 at a time.

With mine on shuffle i can drive an hour or so and never here the same track. You can also make up playlists from within them if you want to or select from the Jukebox.

Is a far better unit than previous cars RNS 510

Nothing to be lost from giving it a go.

[The_Hawk]

What do you do with thousands of tracks at your fingertips anyway? There isn't really a good way to trawl through them... so is it just one great big bucket of shuffling?

I dont use Apple stuff ever

I was like that in the early days which led to the purchase of a Creative Zen Touch. A 20GB MP3 player which came with all the promise of being an external HDD and didn't need iTunes to work... Except that being an external HDD wasn't added for years until a firmware update and it while it didn't need iTunes it did needs it's own dedicated (and terrible) music app to sync stuff. Honestly, a few years later the iPod I bought was a massive step forward in ease of use and features.

I had two 160GB iPod Classic units, one in each car, for a long long time before selling them because they just weren't needed. Phones had evolved to a point where they had more than enough storage to keep plenty enough of your music on them, which has in turn evolved to just streaming anything you might want to listen to (and mobile coverage along the freeways is now almost perfect).


Which leads to the next question for jggolf, why not just load your music onto your phone and play it from there and do away with the SD card completely?

[Hillbilly]

What do you do with thousands of tracks at your fingertips anyway? There isn't really a good way to trawl through them... so is it just one great big bucket of shuffling?
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Yep Music in our car is just background while I concentrate on driving. Im not fussed on what plays as its all tracks I like.

Even my Dynaudio system is wasted on the Country music i play and like LOL

[Ozsko]

I can't see the point of using MP3's when the unit is capable of playing far better formats such as FLAC but I understand that MP3 is what most people continue to use for some reason despite the poor quality even at 320.