jnecr
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Is anybody else using it? I love it. I went and picked up an 8GB card at Best Buy for $25 and now I have the smallest ever iPod for my car. Who needs Apple??
SD Card port on radio
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jtdmc
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how many songs are you holding?jnecr said:
MonthOLDpickle
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With mp3 format that should hold more than like 30 hours.
jtdmc
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That sounds like a good alternative considering that I did not get the MDI in my car, and my ipod keeps running out of battery. When you plug it in, will the names of the songs actually appear on the screen? What is the best sd card to get? Is it simply "plug and play"?
rickcrna1
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Are SDHC cards compatible with the radios found in the 2010 JSW TDI?
MonthOLDpickle
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I thought SDHC was considered:rickcrna1 said:
8GB
16GB
32GB
So if he has an 8GB..that would mean yes.
jnecr
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Yes, it reads mp3 files, so if you have the all tagged appropriately the song name, artist, and album name will appear on both the radio and the instrument cluster display. Since SD cards are an ISO standard I would imagine that any SD card you can buy will work. I was, at first, worried that the 8GB I bought wouldn't work. But it works just as well as the old 512MB card that I had in my old camera. There has got to be some limitation to the size of the card that will work for the head unit. But, I don't know what it is...jtdmc said:
Plug and play, for sure! My laptop has an SD card port built-in which makes it super easy to add/delete files from it. If you don't have a port I'm sure there's USB-to-SD card adapters available. But, when you get to the car it's as simple as putting the SD card in the slot in the radio. If the radio is off it will even turn on to start playing what you have on there...
jtdmc
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Rock On! (no pun intended) Looks like the wife and I will be out and about tomorrow searching for an SD cardjnecr said:
UberVW_TDI
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jnecr said:
The 2010 Premium VIII radio will accept up to 32G SDHC cards...says so in the Premium VIII radio manual.
I'm personally using a regular SD 2G. It works great, artist, song title, and album displays on the radio....organized into appropriate folders. Very cool.
PoliPino
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I just got an 8GB SDHC card last week to use in the car. I got one for 14.99 from sears.com. It worked great for the thanksgiving road trip. I decided not to get a bigger SD card because the manual says that the system can only play a maximum number of total songs (I can't remember the number) that I calculated to be about 8GB worth of songs at 256kbs.
Oh and a little trick I realized if you keep your music in folders and want to be able to play all the music in all the folders on shuffle - put at least a single song on the SD card in no folder. If you select the shuffle option while that song is playing, it will play all the songs in all subfolders.
Oh and a little trick I realized if you keep your music in folders and want to be able to play all the music in all the folders on shuffle - put at least a single song on the SD card in no folder. If you select the shuffle option while that song is playing, it will play all the songs in all subfolders.
skinnyb
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Mine works great...
I have a micro SDHC 4GB card left over from an old Windows mobile phone that I don't use since I went to an iPhone. I put it in the SD adapter so it will fit and loaded it up. Works great and much faster than the CD's. I used to load up CD's with MP3's, fill up the changer, and thought that was the greatest in my 06, but the SD card accesses much faster and doesn't have to switch discs... I am glad since my complementary Sirius subscription will be running out soon and I don't plan on renewing since I can have my own jukebox for free..
I have a micro SDHC 4GB card left over from an old Windows mobile phone that I don't use since I went to an iPhone
. I put it in the SD adapter so it will fit and loaded it up. Works great and much faster than the CD's. I used to load up CD's with MP3's, fill up the changer, and thought that was the greatest in my 06, but the SD card accesses much faster and doesn't have to switch discs... I am glad since my complementary Sirius subscription will be running out soon and I don't plan on renewing since I can have my own jukebox for free..
jnecr
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Exactly, that and I've not been too impressed with the sound quality from the Satellite stations...skinnyb said:I am glad since my complementary Sirius subscription will be running out soon and I don't plan on renewing since I can have my own jukebox for free
740GLE
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Has any one had any problems with mp3s that are encoded with VBR variable bit rate? I think that the unit doesn't reconize them completely as it displays two tracks for each song, one that seems hidden, the file is displayed with a period before the mp3 and can't reconize it and one that is normal. I've gone into the sd card and can't find the duplicate, I also haven't tried the card on another unit, but it only seems to happen on one or two folders where I think they are encoded with VBR
jnecr
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No problems with VBRs for me. The only difference is that it can't display the remaining time for the song. Other than that, haven't had any issues.
eggspoogas
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So what are yall using to upload to the card? All my
music is on iTunes and I first had to convert them all to
mp3 but copy and paste only works until you want to update the songs
on the card and then it's not like an iPod. I had to delete everything and recopy everything else. Also how do yall organize the songs on the card? I was using a 16GB and if I separated all my artists the radio couldn't read them all. I have around 600 artists and 1700 songs.
music is on iTunes and I first had to convert them all to
mp3 but copy and paste only works until you want to update the songs
on the card and then it's not like an iPod. I had to delete everything and recopy everything else. Also how do yall organize the songs on the card? I was using a 16GB and if I separated all my artists the radio couldn't read them all. I have around 600 artists and 1700 songs.
jnecr
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Do you have them all in different folders or no? I would suggest that the radio can only list a finite number of folders/files. So separating them into folders might work?? I'm not sure.
If you use iTunes then this probably isn't as easy as what I had. I just had a bunch of mp3 files on my computer already. It was as easy as copying and pasting them onto the SD card. I had them in folders as well. I only had 600-700 songs though, so maybe this made it easier for the head unit in the car.
If you use iTunes then this probably isn't as easy as what I had. I just had a bunch of mp3 files on my computer already. It was as easy as copying and pasting them onto the SD card. I had them in folders as well. I only had 600-700 songs though, so maybe this made it easier for the head unit in the car.
this is good to hear, at least 75% of my music is vbrjnecr said:
anyone know what types of files are readable by the sd card reader? unless your files are lossless, you should not convert them because you lose a lot of quality in doing so, and you will be very aware when the highs become very brash and tinny.eggspoogas said:
what operating system is on your computer? you should not have to deal with itunes, just go into windows explorer (if you have windows) or finder (if you have osx...pardon me if you have another os, but im going with the numbers of probability here
) and on the left side you should see a drive that is labeled as your sd card. you can simply drag and drop and the files will be transferred in the proper manner! now if you want to reorganize all of your files, you can have itunes do that for you by setting in preferences to "organize my music folder" or something like that, and it will separate all of the music by artist and album... or if you want to do it a custom way, i use an early version (free) of mp3tag to put all of my music into the same artist - track number - track name.mp3 format. if you cant tell already, im SUPER anal about my music.
i hope this helps! good luck with the new car
!
jnecr
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I think it will read .mp3 and .wma files...
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16 0r 32 GB is not enough for me, I have a 160GB iPod hooked up which is pretty full with music from around the world. Now I should go on a really long road trip ...
jnecr
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Really? 120GB full? But how much of that is in video files?
I mean, I could see easily filling my GB SD card that I picked up. But for only $25 a piece I didn't think it would be out of the question to get multiples if I really wanted to...
I mean, I could see easily filling my GB SD card that I picked up. But for only $25 a piece I didn't think it would be out of the question to get multiples if I really wanted to...
Mat
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How fast is the navigation?
I noticed it was pretty slow with my iphone 3g when I tested it. Is it any faster with the SD card?
I noticed it was pretty slow with my iphone 3g when I tested it. Is it any faster with the SD card?
MonthOLDpickle
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Is there a headunit with a 30GB hard drive anyways?
parki
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If you're using a Mac, you might want to take a closer look at those folders to make sure it hasn't created any hidden files. I inserrted my SD card into a PC and was surprised to discover a bunch of files that the RCD-510 had been seemingly unable to play back were in fact extra files that iTunes had created.740GLE said:
jnecr
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Definitely with the standard premium head unit that is stock in the new Golf TDIs. But, I assume that the navigation head unit also has this SD card slot...
jnecr
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So, I think I have the same unit. In the manual it also states that it will accept SDHC cards up to 32GB. Does your's not say that?
