I have a MY 2014 103kW TSI Highline with the standard 5.8" Discover Media infotainment system installed.

The NZ Spec includes an MDI interface, to which I have a USB hard drive attached (but it could equally be a USB pen drive). All inputs work and I can listen to music via radio, SD card, Bluetooth streaming or MDI.

Except...with the MDI cable connected to my USB hard drive, the system always defaults to playing via this input, even when I have been listening to the radio the last time I switched the car off. The sequence is:

  • Listening to radio
  • Turn engine off
  • Turn engine on
  • Radio plays for a few seconds (presumably while device attached to MDI initialises), then device attached to MDI takes over and I get music played from whatever device I have plugged into the MDI cable. If I press the radio button, the radio comes back on...until the next time I switch the car off, at which point the cycle repeats.


Surely it should "remember" the last input used?