I have been messing with the Bolero today and noticed that you press the screen and then the beep sounds. Giving the effect of the touch screen being somewhat clumsy.

So, turned off the beep and now when you touch the screen no beep and a speedy response.

There is also a bug in the firmware for the bolero.

When you are browsing a folder to play the next track on the SD card and the TP cuts in, you normally have the option to cancel or disable the TP. Well this doesn't work in this situation. I had to press the physical TP button on the right hand side.

There is also a bug in the firmware for the bolero.

When you are browsing a folder to play the next track on the SD card and the TP cuts in, you normally have the option to cancel or disable the TP. Well this doesn't work in this situation. I had to press the physical TP button on the right hand side.

Here's another tip - don't use a 16Gb SD card and fill it with albums - you then have to wait about a minute for it to load! Use several smaller ones.

I use a 16Gb and its almost instant, but its a "class 4" card and all the music is in the root and I use playlists.

I use a 16Gb and its almost instant, but its a "class 4" card and all the music is in the root and I use playlists.

Hmmm, mine's class 4 too - I might reorganise it this weekend.

I use a 16Gb and its almost instant, but its a "class 4" card and all the music is in the root and I use playlists.

How do you create a playlist using a SD card on a Bolero?

I'm changing the 4 folders back to the root. although there is only 15 songs in each its a right pain, shuffle doesn't shuffle its way out of the folder if you turn it off and back on again.

It doesn't work anyway!

shuffle doesn't shuffle its way out of the folder if you turn it off and back on again.

How shuffle works is that it shuffles all the songs in a folder then randomly picks songs from other folders. If you have one short song in the root (I have a 30 second clip of a song) you play that then select Mix while it's playing and the shuffle feature will then randomly shuffle and continue to do so even after the vehicle is stopped and started as long as the Bolero is not changed to another source (radio for example).

It doesn't work, I've stripped ALL folders out so that the music is just in a single folder called Music, there are NO Artist folders, NO Album folders, nothing, just music tracks & it will still only shuffle within the letter of the Artist, ABC, ABBA, Aerosmith etc, it won't jump all over the place like it should do.

The firmware on the Bolero is flawed, which is **** poor for a new car.

It doesn't work,

You should qualify that statement. It may not work for you but it works perfectly for me.

My music is in folders by album (around 2.5GB worth) plus a single folder called test that has about 1GB. The test was just added to check start up times and will be deleted. As I said earlier I have a 30sec mp3 in the root directory.

If I play the song in the root directory and whilst it's playing I push the "Mix" button on the Bolero (so a small right facing arrow is visible beside the word Mix) the Bolero then plays random songs from any directory. The only thing I don't like is that it has a habit of often but not always playing two tracks from a directory before it chooses another. I guess that is simply an algorithm thing.

The random playing continues after the car has been turned off and back on as long I as don't change the sound source to the Radio or something. Phone calls through the Bluetooth do not affect the random play.

You should qualify that statement. It may not work for you but it works perfectly for me.

My music is in folders by album (around 2.5GB worth) plus a single folder called test that has about 1GB. The test was just added to check start up times and will be deleted. As I said earlier I have a 30sec mp3 in the root directory.

If I play the song in the root directory and whilst it's playing I push the "Mix" button on the Bolero (so a small right facing arrow is visible beside the word Mix) the Bolero then plays random songs from any directory. The only thing I don't like is that it has a habit of often but not always playing two tracks from a directory before it chooses another. I guess that is simply an algorithm thing.

The random playing continues after the car has been turned off and back on as long I as don't change the sound source to the Radio or something. Phone calls through the Bluetooth do not affect the random play.

It doesn't work for me either.. What firmware is everyone running? (and how do i find out what firmware I have?)

I still think it's shocking that we have to find a workround for something that should just work...

Mix does mix any song across any folder if you have folders. It just seems to stop doing this if you flick to the radio and then back again, or if you get out and start it up again. Otherwise the radio is brilliant.

Radio Text is good as well.

Mix does mix any song across any folder if you have folders. It just seems to stop doing this if you flick to the radio and then back again, or if you get out and start it up again. Otherwise the radio is brilliant.

not for me it doesn't...

Try mixing 13,8Gb worth of music @ 192kbps and see what happens. You won't get it to mix it... Period!

The firmware needs a complete revision & rewrite to get it working properly. Can you imagine the uproar that would ensue if Apple issued a firmware update for the Ipod that made the shuffle feature not work?

For those people who cannot scan/mix on their Bolero

In the Media Setup there is an option for "Scan/Mix/Repeat including sub folders"

Make sure that you have it enabled.

Edited 6 February, 201016 yr by K1W1

For those people who cannot scan/mix on their Bolero

In the Media Setup there is an option for "Scan/Mix/Repeat including sub folders"

Make sure that you have it enabled.

No need to shout

It is set (on mine anyway), what's the next step?

I might add a short mp3 to the root directory and give it a try, but that seems like a cack handed way of going about something that should "just work". I should be able to change source and then go back to the mix where I left off...

Sounds like the MDI with an ipod might be the way to go anyway? Works perfectly OK for me.

I might play with an SDcard though, just to see. Or maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing?

Mix is just normal play but with gaps.

I might add a short mp3 to the root directory and give it a try, but that seems like a cack handed way of going about something that should "just work". I should be able to change source and then go back to the mix where I left off...

OK, I put a short mp3 in the root directory, and whilst that's playing selected MIX, and it works... mostly. Does seem to like playing 2 songs in a folder before moving onto another folder. I know it's possible for this to happen on a random play, but it seems to happen a lot more often on the Bolero than on an iPod/iPhone...

Another query though, if I create a playlist, does mix work in that?

If so, I might just knock up a quick shell script to list all the songs on the SD card as a playlist, choose the playlist and hit mix... (or will I hit an issue with a maximum number of tracks in a playlist?)

Quick SD Update

Sainsburys have a 8Gb Class 6 for £15 at the moment.

They also have cheap 4 and 2Gb Class 6 cards as well.

I think they are even SanDisk cards.

Got my brand new Octavia last Thursday (5 March) and the first thing was to deeply explore the Bolero. Great music player indeed, no comments at all, yet a strange "problem" soon made it's appearance but I was lucky enough to find the solution in less than an hour...

I'm explaining myself.

Some days before the delivery I had prepared two Mp3-CDs and a 4GB SD card, full of Mp3 songs. The reason for this was I had to wait for the MDI-USB cable to arrive, so I couldn't yet use my USB-HDD with the system. Anyway, I inserted the SD card, it was recognized in seconds and the music began to play. But... just a moment, all the songs were "decapitated" in their very beginning. I mean the first notes of each song weren't heard at all. Quite annoying and quite destroying my music pleasure indeed! Listening to the same songs on my PC I exactly measured the "cut" time and it was an impressive 0.6 seconds...! Hundreds of my favourite songs owe their strength to those "first" notes and now what? I was supposed to live without it...?

The solution came as a brain "flash". "Hey", I though, "almost all of my songs have ONLY ID3v1 tags (which are appended at the end of the .mp3 files) and NOT ID3v2 tags, which are written at the very start of the .mp3 files. What if I equip my songs with ID3v2 tags...? Will this "force" the Bolero to get busy with the START of the file and NOT overlook it...?"

My friends, I'm happy to say that ID3v2 tags fully resolved the problem. BUT, a batch ID3 writter program I used didn't manage anything. Only via Winamp I was able to create ID3v2 tags that the Bolero worked well with and, voila, no more "decapitating" to my music.

The funny thing is that when I got the MDI-USB cable and attached my external hard drive, this problem didn't appear at all, no matter if the songs had ID3v2 tags or ID3v1 tags.

Edited 10 March, 201016 yr by GiannisB