Gapless Albums on SD card (RCD510)

[FSI 220]

A cable has a "firmware"? Ok Assuming there is an interfacey thing between the RCD and the cable, how do you upload firmware to that?

Appreciate your interest BTW.

[Ryan_R]

That's the MDI box that normally sits in the centre console of some Golfs and has a PCB inside that reads your USB stick or iPOD and then converts it into an audio stream for the RNS510. I retrofitted mine and didn't want to waste space in the console or run wires through centre tunnel so I had to remove it from its housing.

The MDI Niggles thread in the Mk6 Golf section here describes common problems and also has links to new firmware releases available via the MyGTI website. You just save a file to USB and stick that in the MDI.

MDI | my-gti.com

[FSI 220]

Thanks Ryan, Whiskeywallah you are geniuses (geniusi???)...

Ok, So I downloaded the MDI firmware... this was easy, applied the update, It appears that I have the latest version, the message on the radio confirmed everything was OK, It knew what I was trying to do... but the update was not required.

Kewel!

Next bit, checked the firmware on the iPod... an old 20 gig classic, this could use an update... Off to the quarantine computer, download Itunes, update iPod, take my SD card with my gap-less albums over to the quarantine machine (wouldn't want the iTunes virus to infect my main laptop...) Get iTunes to do the gruntwork, gapless-affying the albums... synch the iPod, unhook Ipod, Uninstall Itunes , run Floola to back up the iPod back to the computer transfer the now processed mp3 files back to the main computer and add it to my library where I can now Floola it back up to my wife's or my iPod or whomsoever's in a preprocessed state.

Take the iPod to the car...virtually imperceptibaly gapless! tadah! A bit convoluted but between the hints from either of you I got there!

Hopefuly the Re-initialisation issue is sorted by the ipod firmware update, i'll report back if it isnt

Cheers

John