Wilfred

I'm not ruling anything out with this! Did turning off gesture control also turn of the proximity sensing for the menus.? I don't think I have ever used the gestures, so it won't be an issue turning it off. Much like the voice "wake up phrase" for the voice control. That turns on the voice control randomly, even listening to the radio, the DJ says something, and voice control wakes up!

I also had issues with a quick format when changing file format at the same time. I suspect in that sense you're correct. There's many over the air updates which probably also help to confuse things..

One of the nice things about the Skoda system is that you can turn it on without needing to turn on the ignition. It's reset even then! I did wonder the same thing but I don't think so as it doesn't reset if you subsequently start the vehicle. The other thought I had was that it doesn't shutdown gracefully when you get out of the vehicle or hit the power button on the head unit. I'm convinced that the system builds an MP3 tag database in its own memory, if you load up a large stick and go straight to interrogating the database you can see a subset of what's on the stick and can see the list growing on each screen refresh. What I don't understand is how they managed to break things so badly when going from MIB 2 to 3. My previous Octavia system worked flawlessly.

We had a service recently and they did some software updates as a "recall", apparently before there was a chance you could accidentally lock the vehicle with the keys in instantly. Now you have to wait for a minute or so before the car will lock with keys in. After that the DSG seemed to be making sloppy changes and we had a run if about 10 engine stops where the playing track reset to the first track in the MP3 tag database. Now things have settled down and the infotainment system is only doing it occasionally. I did think there would be an easy explanation as to why this happened but now I don't think there is. There's some trigger but I don't know what it is, and everything I've tried hasn't uncovered it. I doubt very much that the infotainment system has "proper" USB support and once the deficiencies are uncovered I'm hoping the solution will also be. I had a Toyota whose system would only work properly if the USB stick only had 1 layer of folders, even if you weren't playing music from the stick. Took me ages to uncover the answer buried in a Toyta blog on the Yaris - which wasn't the model I had!

It's been a while, and I've been experimenting. I wouldn't say I have any definitive results but based on recent experience here's what I uncovered. I started off with a couple of old 32Gb sticks, both SanDisk. One USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0. Both formatted as FAT32 and with about 28Gb of music on them, no non-English characters, and no compilation albums or audio books. They worked flawlessly for a couple of weeks each. Never forgot where they were and were selectable easily from the tag database or the folder routes. I also noticed that it didn't take between 5 and 8 seconds to react to any instruction, like play/pause or skip a track. Next, I moved back to my original 128Gb stick and formatted it as NTFS. First off, I just did a quick format and had a few weird errors that I never saw before. I then did a full format [uncheck the "Quick Format" box but be prepared for a long wait] and copied approximately half the music collection on to it. As before, no compilation albums, audio books or albums with non-English characters. This worked fine for many weeks and was as responsive as using the 32Gb sticks. One morning it was back at track one in the tag database, but I can't rule out the fact that a system update didn't cause this as the night before it told me there was an update. Since then, it has rest to track one in the tag database two more times, although I wasn't in the vehicle when this was noticed the much-reduced frequency could be indicative of an update being downloaded and applied silently. The original stick was formatted as exFAT when I bought it, so I'm going to suggest that the system support for exFAT in the MIB3 system is flawed. I also think that there could be something in the need for the full format, especially when changing file systems. I do also wonder about the music database size, I dropped from about 20,000 files and folders down to about 10,000 files and folders. I do still need to add back the German artists, to see if the umlauted characters have any bearing, as well as add back in the compilation albums and audio books. In parallel to this I have been doing a mass re-tagging exercise to my compilation albums - making contributing artist be "Various Artists". Audio books are also edited to reduce the complexity of the file structure to reduce the number of directories to see if this has any impact. Once I have spent some time with the German music, I'll add back the compilation albums and see what happens. Audio books will probably remain on a separate stick.

If I figure it out, I'll paste it here.

Thanks Chris - I've investigated getting one. MyMemory is showing out of stock, so is Amazon, and Integral don't seem to list it anymore on their site. They appear to have replaced it with the 360 Dual USB. According to the 360 product data sheet it's 37mm high, the dimensions of the Fusion [not from Integral website] show it as being 28mm high, which means the 360 might not fit under the lid. Shame.

The adapter I inked above fits with the draw closed in the Karoq not familiar with the Kamiq so can't really help there sorry.

I have been using Marshall's in Gillingham business park since I bought the first of my Skodas. They're good, and whilst charging Dealer prices I've not found them to be unreasonable for the work I ask them to do. Not found an Indie for the CitiGo, my Octavia was under the all-in-one plan which includes an extended warranty.

Like many I mourn the loss of the SD Card slot of MIB2. Moving to USB-C is also a little premature I think, but that said... In my MIB2 equipped Octavia I used a MicroSD card in an SD Card adapter to store and play my music. Once we got the Karoq I took the MicroSD card and placed it into a single slot USB adapter, which was then inserted into a USB-A to USC-C adapter and then into the car. This was too long to allow the lid to close over the charging compartment, but at least it was recognised and played music. Later I bought this cable and this stick to replace my temporary solution and allow me to close the draw. The wisdom of only allowing 20mm clearance above the USB-C socket is dubious, but that is where we are, thanks Skoda. Maybe that is a VAG attempt to get people to spend more on a VW T-ROC or Tiguan where the sockets are in a different place. In both cases the Infotainment system would randomly forget what it was playing and start playing something else. Most of the time it starts playing the first track of the first album, alphabetically, from the MP3 tag database. Occasionally it would go back to the first track of the same album, or it would go back to the point it was at from the prior engine start. The upshot being I'd listen to the same few tracks repeated each time I started the engine. The stealer was consulted at the 10k mile service, and they'd never heard of this before. Oh, imagine my surprise I know that the Infotainment system isn't going to be as comprehensive an implementation of the USB and MP3 tagging standards as a PC or even a modern smartphone. In fact, I've already discovered that the system does not accept the existence of the "album artist" MP3 tag and only considers the "contributing artist" tag. This is annoying to me, as in compilation albums I tend to have the track artist listed in the "contributing artist" tag and "Various Artists" in the "album artist" tag. That way sorting by "album artist" gives me all my compilation albums listed under "various artists". Fortunately, the system allows browsing by folders, which I do normally. When the system then reverts to the first file in the tag database it's a few more steps to go back to folders and start playing the music where it left off. I've read a few posts that suggest that the problems are related to incomplete/inconsistent or plain wrong MP3 tagging, which I don't believe is the case here. Partly because I have spent much time getting them correct but also as I don't ask the system to play by tags. Another suggestion was that there are non-English characters used in the filenames. Possible as I do listen to some German music with umlauted characters in the filename and tags, but the issue doesn't occur because of playing those files, or even the album those files are in. Another suggestion was that using sticks over 32Gb can cause issues which seems mad in 2024 but if the implementation of exFAT isn't correct then it's possible. I'm currently experimenting with a subset of the music collection on a 32Gb stick but it is too early to tell if the results are positive, in a crazy way I hope they're not and a better solution is available. Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions.? Is there an Infotainment system expert in the house..?

New to the forum but not new to owning Skoda vehicles. In the family we have 2014 CitiGo Greentech Elegance 2023 Karoq Sportline 2.0 TSI 4x4 and I just sold my 2018 Octavia 1.5 TSI manual estate.