I have the NAV and I use the SD card slots for my MP3s. I see that a lot of my music don't show up when I play it in the car. I only have about 400 MP3s on each of my 4 gig cards because I know that it olny shows about 500 MP3s in the car. is there a file size limit on what the car reads? This is a real pain as a lot of the songs that wont play are songs that I like to listen to. If I cant get this resolved. I just might get an I-pod kit and stop using the SD cards. Does anyone know?
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2007 Auid A3 3.2
2003 BMW 330i Steptronic
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I asked a similar question, never really got a straight answer. It drives me nuts hearing the same 40 songs when I know there are hundreds of MP3s on my SD cards.
I asked a similar question, never really got a straight answer. It drives me nuts hearing the same 40 songs when I know there are hundreds of MP3s on my SD cards.
Big dif between 40 and 400.
I know i have more than 40 on my sd card but I have not tried as many as 400 yet.
One thing that I can say is make sure that they are all MP3 files and not ma4, aiff, etc.
But since I have not tried that many yet, that's all the help I can be.
FWIW... I just got a new A3 with the Nav/iPod. I think the iPod integration is a little weak. I was expecting more detail in the output but it still just addresses 6 playlists as CD's (as if it were a changer).
My solution to this was to create 5 playlists in my iTunes. Then drag and drop songs on to the playlists. CD 6 is all songs on that iPod. But my beef wit this is that the more songs I put in a playlist, the more convoluted that playlist gets. There's no track information (it just comes across as Track 01, 02, etc) so you have to know your playlists really well.
If i'm just a noob and not doing it right, please let me know.
The SD card route seems better because at least you can have track names and folders on there instead of one really long playlist.
Yes, I like the SD cards. I had the 'luxory' of owning a 2007 with MP3 cards for a year, then having to order a 2008 A3, and having the option of the new iPod integration.After learning that it replaces my CD changer and it only appears as if it is a list of CDs, I opted out and kept the MP3 slots. Audi doesn't seem to understand what the iPod integration should be and is capable of being.
I currently use 2GB Sandisk Ultra II cards, filled to the max. I cannot recall how many songs there are, but it seems like a couple hundred per card. I have had no problems with them all showing up, with titles. I do not have any folders on my cards, all files are MP3s just sorted by name. I wonder if problems are caused by having multiple folders, or possibly the brand name of your SD card?
It has to do with the way itunes imports the songs. I had the same problem and it was because Itunes was importing the songs using an ACC encoder, you just need to change the way they imported to MP3 encoding. I think you can select all songs in itunes and right click and then change all of them to MP3 format.
It has to do with the way itunes imports the songs. I had the same problem and it was because Itunes was importing the songs using an ACC encoder, you just need to change the way they imported to MP3 encoding. I think you can select all songs in itunes and right click and then change all of them to MP3 format.
I use SanDisk 2 gig SD cards formatted with Fat32. Then you have to load it with MP3s. You will have to convert any itunes purchased music, which is MP4, to MP3 before the SD will read it. You do this by creating a playlist of approximately 21 songs and burn them to a CD, and do not exceed the capacity of the CD. Then you immediately reimport that CD with the import setting set as MP3. Also no pause between tracks. It works with the names of the songs and track number showing on the Audi nav.To build the SD up, I created a folder on the computer and copied MP3s into until I have approximately 354 songs and/or 1.88 gigs of MP3 files. Then you copy them into the SD chip.The Audi nav will confirm the chip is reading 1.88 gigs.
NAV and SD cards question
