Can anyone help?

Have new superb elegance. I have hunderds of MP3 files I would like to load onto the Harddisk. I have tried doing this via DVD, however I have to load each MP3 file individually which is really time consuming. Am I doing something wrong, is there an auto load to HD from DVD? Would it work automatically (or at least in bulk) from SD card?

Thanks

Can anyone help?

Have new superb elegance. I have hunderds of MP3 files I would like to load onto the Harddisk. I have tried doing this via DVD, however I have to load each MP3 file individually which is really time consuming. Am I doing something wrong, is there an auto load to HD from DVD? Would it work automatically (or at least in bulk) from SD card?

Thanks

I thought the only way to do files was via the SD card? (not that ive tried reading them CD/DVD!) SOmething make me think an old dog (me!) is about to learn a new trick... copying the files from the CD/DVD media makes more sense to me as thats where most of mine are currently.

Lee

Edited 19 November, 200817 yr by FocusZtec

You can do it, whole disks at a time.

Before starting make sure you have the volume turned to zero, otherwise copying takes ages.

Insert disk to copy from

Go to the list of tracks, if not displayed by pressing selection.

In the top left keep pressing the folder with an arrow on until you get to a menu with DVD, HDD, SD on it.

To the right of where it says DVD, is a small squaure box, select this and then select copy, and off it goes.

Thanks Mannyo - Works a treat :-)

Focus - Probably stating the obvious, but don't forget they need to be in MP3 or similar format, you can't save to hard drive standard CD

You can do it, whole disks at a time.

Before starting make sure you have the volume turned to zero, otherwise copying takes ages.

Insert disk to copy from

Go to the list of tracks, if not displayed by pressing selection.

In the top left keep pressing the folder with an arrow on until you get to a menu with DVD, HDD, SD on it.

To the right of where it says DVD, is a small squaure box, select this and then select copy, and off it goes.

As a note, if you select the disk itself, it will copy the "root", and label it "copy of" SD/DVD/CD etc. Within this newly created directory will now be all your music folders. To avoid this you'll have to copy the music folders individually (which by the sound of it, is what you were doing originally).

I've just copied 5,500 tracks over, and the way I did it was to create main folders with the styles of music in them (rock, pop, country, classical etc), and put the artists in those. Then you only need to copy the main music style folder over, and the Columbus unit will do the subfolders itself..

HTH

Whatever happend to Radio 2?

lol - I'm too old for Radio 1, get depressed listening to Radio 2 (makes me feel old), so tend to listen to Five Live (which doesn't play music anyway).

I've about 40Gb of music on my laptop (all legal before anyone asks), so it took a while to decide what to put in the car. Fortunately, what with the HD, DVD capability, AUX in and the fact that I also spec'd the 6 CD changer, I can listen to pretty much all my music in one form or another.

Hard part is remembering what I put where...... lol

so you are the one person in the UK who has bought the CD changer !!!

(where is it located ? in teh glove box or in the boot ?)

so you are the one person in the UK who has bought the CD changer !!!

(where is it located ? in teh glove box or in the boot ?)

In the boot, behind the panel with the First Aid kit. Smaller than the one in the MK I, and has a spare slot in the chassis for (I assume) DVD or games interface.

The dealer had a blind panic when my car turned up for PDI as initially he couldn't find it. Was only when he removed the first aid panel he worked it out. In the MK I, the changer was in the left hand side, so he assumed it would be there, or under the seat as it is in some other models.

i decided not to bother with the CD - 18gb on the columbus plus about 7gb on a dual layer DVD permanently left in the player will give me more than i need ! I get fed up of having CDs scattered around both cars and in the house and not knowing where they are !

Does anyone know if it is possible to leave the car locked while you set the copying process going. I copied about 1.7 gb from the SD card yesterday and it took about an hour. I had put in a DVD-R with 4.5gb of tunes into it but it wouldn't recognise the disk for some reason which was very annoying. Anyone else had this problem? It was a standard Tesco DVD-R which I assume should work.

Anyway if anyone can tell me a way of setting it going and leaving it that would be great.

Does anyone know if it is possible to leave the car locked while you set the copying process going. I copied about 1.7 gb from the SD card yesterday and it took about an hour. I had put in a DVD-R with 4.5gb of tunes into it but it wouldn't recognise the disk for some reason which was very annoying. Anyone else had this problem? It was a standard Tesco DVD-R which I assume should work.

Anyway if anyone can tell me a way of setting it going and leaving it that would be great.

yes you can, but it should take a lot less than 1hr to copy 1.7GB of data. I can do a whole DVD (4.7GB) in about 15mins. The key is to make sure that the sound is muted when copying.

yes you can, but it should take a lot less than 1hr to copy 1.7GB of data. I can do a whole DVD (4.7GB) in about 15mins. The key is to make sure that the sound is muted when copying.

15 mins ???? Took me over an hour, and that was with the sound muted as well. Did you have many directories/files to copy ?

Does anyone know if it is possible to leave the car locked while you set the copying process going. I copied about 1.7 gb from the SD card yesterday and it took about an hour. I had put in a DVD-R with 4.5gb of tunes into it but it wouldn't recognise the disk for some reason which was very annoying. Anyone else had this problem? It was a standard Tesco DVD-R which I assume should work.

Anyway if anyone can tell me a way of setting it going and leaving it that would be great.

SD is slower, I know that much. Did a 2Gb one the other day and it took about the same length of time as yours did.

Was the DVD disc finalised when you copied the files, or did you leave it open to write more info ? I've been using Verbatim DVD+R and DVD+RW disks ok. Not tried -R but that should work too.

Not used Tesco own brand. Am always suspicious of the generic ones, in case the quality isn't up to scratch :confused:

it was quiet a few CD's on there, arranged as Artist - Album. Mine seems to copy as fast as it would on a PC.

I'm going to burn another DVD and see if I can do it with the car locked now. I'm still not sure of the file structure on there. The files I did copy accross have not come across in any order it would seem. I had hoped that it would put them on in alphabetic order but it seems to be random.

I'll give this a go and try to work out how to put them into the same folder as the ones from the SD card.

A topic on the dutch skoda forum about SD cards was pretty interesting to me, someone tested up to 16GB SD in a Bolero, weird part was when he tested it in a Columbus, it didn't work.

Since my superb will be getting a Bolero, my cd swapping times are over, 2 of those 16GB SD's in your car and you have all the music you could wish for!

I've now tried a 16GB card in a Bolero, and it does work. The Bolero has obviously been updated to work with SDHC cards, but currently the Columbus has not.

I find this a bit odd, as you would think that the flagship unit would get such an update before the mid range. I'm guessing they are trying to compensate for the lack of hard drive in the Bolero.

I've asked my contacts at Skoda UK to try and find out if the Columbus is going to be updated, and if it will be possible to update earlier units. So far, I've not received a reply.

Bagpuss.

could i be cheeky bagpuss and ask you to ask them when the navigation is actually going to a postcode system in that at least equals a £100 pound unit

could i be cheeky bagpuss and ask you to ask them when the navigation is actually going to a postcode system in that at least equals a £100 pound unit

Good question, and one I would also like an answer to.

Skoda UK are definitely working on the issue, and they are hopeful that it will be addressed in the 2009 map update (which I guess will be v4). When this will be released is still up in the air, so don't hold your breath.

Bagpuss.

thanks Bagpuss. I have upgraded sound system like yourself and as a media unit think the columbus is cracking and tons better than the dx - like the dx though i think the sat nav is pants, none 7 digit postcode is disgraceful on a new car of this spec and it is unintuitive imho compared to most stuff out there. Roll on version 4 and a free upgrade hopefully !!!

However apart from that I love the car.

Regarding the post where the tracks come across in the wrong order, quite often when copying to DVD (depending on what programme you are using to convert from Itunes) they will revert to "alphabetic" order rather than in original sone order.

I fould a really nice piece of software (Tuneclone) which enabled me to effortlessly get tracks from ITunes, save in lower file size (As I too have about 40G on Itunes), and a variety of save options (I chose, Folder = Original CD name, then the tracks in original track order saving data as Track Number, Track Title, Artist).

Hope this helps (and before anyone asks - no - I am not on commission from Tuneclone, just that it saved me a massive amount of work!)

Oh - BTW, beware :-

If you have an error, the columbus is unforgiving and will just stop the copy rather than skippiing that track.

Also Found that CD+R work much better than CD-R

anyone advise on whether DVD+R is more reliable than DVD-R or vice versa ?

I used +R & +RW, and both worked fine (both for MP3 and modding the Sat Nav to include speed cameras).

In principle, -R/RW should work perfectly well (modern drives should be fine with both, it's only older drives that are picky) Without knowing the model of the DVD drive, it's impossible to tell for sure. Anyone got the specs on the Columbus unit to hand ?

Edited 1 December, 200817 yr by Alien8d

I used DVD-R and as long as you finalise the disk when you burn it it works spot on. Does take a long while to copy though even with the sound turned off.

Also the inability to only take a folder at a time accross once you've done your first "copy of dvd" is a real pain. Why didn't they put a 'select all' option onto the copy. Great once you've done all the work but a terrible UI.

I would like to know where to get Speed Cameras and POIs for the system. Can anyone point me in the right direction.