Hi

I have a Octavia VRS FL - it has the Bolero stereo with the iPOD cable which works well, except there seems to be a slight pause (or mute) of about 1 second, which happens about 1 second after a track starts playing (does this make sense?)

I dont normally notice this as I tend to have the iPOD on mix and if the next track starts quietly, its not noticable. But when you play an album which has one song running into the next, it become quite annoying

Has anyone else noticed this and is there a fix? I have mentioned it to my dealer and he will have a look at the next service, but I am not sure if he really understood what I was talking about....

Regards

Jim

I don't recall ever hearing that. I will listen carefully next time I'm in the car.

Just out of interest exactly which iPod do you have connected?

What format is your music in? Only some music formats will do continuous(gapless) play between tracks, mp3 isn't one of them...on all the mp3 players I've had there has been a second or so gap between each track, perhaps as you say you're just noticing it because normally you have it on mix. Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road make me cringe every time I hear them on mp3 :(

What I have noticed on the Bolero is that when playing from SD card it often (or always) cuts off a song a second or two before the end, and starts the next a second or two into the new song (in a playlist designed to circumvent the mix issue). In a directly opposite question to the OP, is there any way of automatically adding "padding" to the beginning and end of a couple of thousand mp3s that won't lead to me losing all my hair?!!

Edited 14 July, 201015 yr by IndianaBlues

What format is your music in? Only some music formats will do continuous(gapless) play between tracks, mp3 isn't one of them...on all the mp3 players I've had there has been a second or so gap between each track, perhaps as you say you're just noticing it because normally you have it on mix. Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road make me cringe every time I hear them on mp3

Getting rid of the two second gap between tracks was one of the most common user requests about iPods when they came out. Apple fixed that a couple of years ago and all recent iPods can play music without gaps even MP3's.

I've noticed it, although it doesn't happen on all tracks. It is mildly annoying, but I don't have a fix for it, sorry. I'll make a note of formats to see if that's the issue - most of mine are lossless, although I do have a few AAC and MP3

mine does the same, but it could be 'cos my ipod is VERY old..!

Try updating the Ipods firmware via Itunes.

Checked tonight and yes it does happen for me but like you and others only on some tracks with no reason. All my tracks are 192 bit MP3 so technically they are the same.

I'm using an iPhone 3G with OS4.

My car is going in for a service tomorrow so I will mention it.

Getting rid of the two second gap between tracks was one of the most common user requests about iPods when they came out. Apple fixed that a couple of years ago and all recent iPods can play music without gaps even MP3's.

Oops...guess that's me showing my age then...

Hi

My iPOD is only 6 month old and has been recently updated on itunes so I dont think its Firmware version - plus if you listen with the headphones there isnt any gaps

I have flagged this up to the dealer so maybe they will be able to do something at the service next week,,,,,

Regards

Jim

I'll try playing a Jean-Michel Jarre album on my system and see what happens, as they're mostly gapless.

Hi

My iPOD is only 6 month old and has been recently updated on itunes so I dont think its Firmware version - plus if you listen with the headphones there isnt any gaps

I have flagged this up to the dealer so maybe they will be able to do something at the service next week,,,,,

Regards

Jim

Jim,

Mine goes into the dealer tomorrow morning to have them check the lumbar support (doesn't work properly), but I've also noticed this and I listen to a lot of music that NEEDS to be gapless (mixed dance albums for example); I've mentioned this to them too, and have to say, if they can't fix it then I'll be moving for some kind of recompense from either the dealer or Skoda UK.

To have an IPOD connection that cannot play gapless tracks is ridiculous.

My BMW was fine, so why not Skoda?

H

instead of starting a new thread, can I ressurect this issue? I have played a little with MDI connection in the dealer, as well as the SD card slot. Inconclusive. Looking to ascertain the best method to secure gapless playback via Bolero.

I have the setting in iTunes to annotate gapless, so iPhone and older iPod 5.5 both work well, and have done in my old A3.

Any thoughts welcome. Thanks in advance

I have noticed this too. I too have set the gap on ipod to gapless but I assumed the system in car while using the MDI/ipod cable is using its own operating system to access the ipods stored music and maybe not the actual OS on the device itself merely extracting the files from it and allowing you to navigate them. To me that would suggest that if I used the 3.5mm aux jack it would not be doing this and would play without the little blip as the ipod itself would not be in bolero mode?? Not a solution to those of us that have paid for MDI but might explain it, a future update of bolero firmware might be part of a service at some stage to correct such issues in that case if enough people hit SUK with the glitch maybe it would get addressed.

All of the above is random and from my non qualified opinion, my ipod is now 4 years old the "classic 80gb" and I would have no doubt its nothing to do with the ipods in anyway themselves.

To add to my own post from last evening - I had 5-10 mins in an Octavia with MDI fitted. My iPhone 3GS appeared to play gaplessly, but it was hardly an extensive test.

I tried the same with a SD card in the slot, was nowhere near gapless (I expected as much). I presume (though I don't know) that Android phones would be similarly problematic since they base their mass storage on micro-SD cards. Can anyone comment on Android phones via MDI?

Pretty sure that anything plugged in via aux will work well enough insofar as it's then only a question of the software on the device itself. I know too that I can rip gapless CDs to a long single track. Both fine as they go, but I'd prefer a more integrated solution though.

iPod integration in my 56 plate A3 was OK, but basic. Gapless worked OK, but the integration with the headunit was 'of it's time'. I've high hopes for 11 plate Skoda

Thanks for any/all input

I have just bought a new Octavia Elegance with a Bolero radio and I expected to connect my iPod Classic to the 3.5mm AUX-IN socket and have it play through the radio after doing SETUP to activate the AUX settings. But I had no sound at all. And then I read in the Bolero manual 'External audio sources which are connected to the AUX-IN input cannot be operated via the radio.' So what is the point of the socket if I cannot use it?

Oh silly me - just needed to press the MEDIA button ..... please ignore!

Edited 2 April, 201115 yr by bardo