Used a 16 GB Sd card with all my MP3 tracks (about 9GB) was very slow (as the unit had to read them all). I now use a 4GB with my favs, prob best to use 2GB with no more than 10 albums which is better than just 6 CDs. P.S. you can also stream by Bluetooth from your phone!

You can only stream by bluetooth if you have the basic prep package

I've got the VW RCD510 B revision in my passat and I find a 2gb SD card instant in swapping tracks where as with my Ipod it takes considerable time, now im not sure wether to invest in a high speed SDHC card, im loathed to spend the money to find out its no better than my iPod once above 4gb

I take delivery of my get VRS LE next Friday..

I have just bought a Transcend 16GB SDHC 133x card for the Bolero now converting my itunes library back down to MP3 320kbps.

What is the recommended way to copy MP3 files from iTunes directory to the SDHC card.

where directory structure is as follows

iTunes Music\Compilations\\

1/ Do you copy directory structures immediately below \iTunes Music to include 2 sub directory levels of info.

2/ Do you copy under Compilations, where all my albums are held at present.

3/ Do you just copy all the MP3 files to the root directory of the SDHC card and the player knows the album and tracks info anyway

What are the recommended ways of doing this with thanks.. I would like to have the SDHC card ready in advance of pickup ..

I keep all my music in the following structure

o----Artist1

o-----------Album1

o-----------Album2

o----Artist2

o-----------Album1

o-----------Album2

That works well. The player can only navigate the folders on the card so keeping it in the above structure is practical.

Putting everything on the root folder would be a disaster. You would spend half your life scrolling the list of tracks.

I have a 8GB/Class 6 card and 16GB/Class 2 card. The 16 GB card takes nearly 2 minutes before the player finishes reading it and starts playing the track. Far too slow.

The 8GB takes about 30-40 secs, still slow but tolerable.

The CD Player is pretty fast to startup. 5-10 secs.

/sanjay

Hello everybody! I'm from Greece and I plan to buy Skoda Octavia 5 soon.

I have some questions about how Bolero system copes with "Random" playing, during a USB device playback, via the MDI. I read the Bolero manual (PDF from the Skoda site) and it wasn't clear to me if the "Mix" (random) function includes ONLY the tracks in a specific folder or ALL the tracks of the USB device. My current car stereo offers both functions (Folder/Device), the first being the optimal to me. I like random playing in the folder I've selected (50, 100, 200 tracks of similar "mood"), NOT over the whole media (6.500 tracks, tenths of "moods").

However, later in the manual I read about an interesting setting "Scan/Mix/Repeat including sub-folder". I thought this means I can have random playing in a specific folder and all its subfolders and I can cancel it too. The folder structure I've made in my external HDD is two levels : "Root/Decades/Genres", for example "60s-70s/Folk" or "Greek 80-90/Rock-Ballads". With my curent system I can only have random in the "Genres" level, with Bolero I suppose I can have random in "Decades" level too. Am I right?

And finally I'd like to know the time Bolero needs to "read" a 30 GB FAT32 partition in an external HDD, when first plugged in the USB port. My current system needs about 25 seconds, quite reasonable to me.

Thanks in advance to anyone who has the time to answer these, somehow sophisticated, questions.

Edited 2 September, 200916 yr by GiannisB

Seven months being a happy driver of my Octavia FL, all of my above question were answered and the HDD recognition takes no more that 5 seconds.

Bolero is a great HU indeed, yet there's an annoying thing about it (minor though..)

When it plays MP3 files encoded with CBR (Constant Bit Rate of any value) everything is displayed right. Time elapsed, progress bar, time remaining. But...

...when it plays MP3 files encoded with VBR (Variable Bit Rate) it can not determine the lengh of the song, so it only displays the time elapsed (to the left) and NOT the time remaining of the song (to the right). No progress bar, too.

My question is if this issue has been rectified in the latest units. I collected my car on March 2010. Fortunatelly, no problems with slow SD recognition. Almost instant response, even if the unit is turned-off. Just by putting the SD card in the unit "weaks" and starts playing.

Edited 12 October, 201015 yr by GiannisB