Search turns up 1000 Bolero entries, and life is so short. Could anyone offer a brief 'Idiot's Help', please?

The brochure (Yeti SE) says:

Radio 'Bolero' 2DIN with integrated CD changer (6 CD), can play MP3 recordings

Being rather 'old school' I listen to the car rather than the radio but SWMBO's the opposite. I'd like to know what I'll be faced with when (eventually) the Yeti arrives, because guess who'll have to set it up for her?!

I assume that 'integrated' means that 6 CDs can be fed into the thing on the dashboard and there's no awkward box in the boot - right? And what is the MP3 input - card slot? - what card type?

Final question (sorry, I just have to ask, even though it may take me to join Bob and my grandson): What is a DIN and why does it have two?

Yes, you can feed the stereo with 6 discs.

A sdhc card up to 32GB is used in the slot at the front. You will need to get the help of someone technical or under 15 to show you how to Pitt your music on.

DIN is a standard used to describe the slot needed to accommodate a standard footprint stereo. The bolero is double the height of a standard stereo, hence it is termed double DIN

You can drag and drop mp3 files from your iTunes library (directly from the hard disc not via the application) onto an SDHC card formatted as FAT32, maximum 32gb and 2000 files, however no other format AAC etc will work so beware.

So now I can listen to lots of albums I bought years ago but without going through a contrived process to reformat nearly everything bought over the last three years back to MP3 taking up HDD space and/or creating duplicates in iTunes I can't moves my latest purchases to the SD card.

The auto changer is from the dark ages as far as I am concerned and adds no value.The MDI option is sadly lacking in the UK and extremely annoying, it would be far easier to have an iPod in the glovebox which seamlessly integrates with iTunes giving you play lists and podcasts in seconds, after all you can't take an SD card and plug head phones into it when you leave the car can you?

To end on a positive the display is great as it uses the tags to display artist/album/song.

I agree that it is an inexplicable omission from the options list but it is a simple enough fix.

Buy a Golf v mdi unit and lead which plugs in to the empty socket on the back of the Bolero and route the cable into the glove box (or the cubby below the unit) and get someone with VCDS to plug into the diagnostic socket and tick the box on the screen of their laptop to enable MDI and you will then have seamless touch screen access to your iPod.

The ridiculous thing is that it is that simple and not very expensive but VAG must have decided not to do it as part of brand differentation.

I agree that it is an inexplicable omission from the options list but it is a simple enough fix.

Buy a Golf v mdi unit and lead which plugs in to the empty socket on the back of the Bolero and route the cable into the glove box (or the cubby below the unit) and get someone with VCDS to plug into the diagnostic socket and tick the box on the screen of their laptop to enable MDI and you will then have seamless touch screen access to your iPod.

The ridiculous thing is that it is that simple and not very expensive but VAG must have decided not to do it as part of brand differentation.

Agreed I will probably do this, but I saw this on a showroom Yeti before it was deleted so I still find it annoying to use a back door method for something so fundamental in the modern age, thumbs down to VAG for spoiling my happiness!

There are several MDI kits on Ebay for around £120, which includes everything you need - as JCP suggests it's a simple fix and all you'll need then is one of the friendly VCDS owners on here to activate for you (or not in my case as it worked fully immediately!)

I also have a 32GB Memory stick ( i.e. not constrained by the SD card limits) that I use with the MDI when I'm away and 'er indoors commandeers the Ipod for the kitchen.....

I wasn't aware the MDI was ever available on Yetis - every other model but not UK Yetis for some inexplicable reason?

I've long given up trying to fathom how SUK arrive at the specs for UK Yetis - 'bizarre' is the kindest term I can muster!

You're all so kind; Madam will be grateful to you. As I now understand it:

- Yes, push CDs into it (up to six, but probably none in our case), nothing in the boot (sound of cheers, offstage)

- Music as mp3 goes on an SDHC card that slots into the unit. (I think we have two CDs in the XT; one may have been played briefly once. With the new super-quiet environment of a Yeti, there may of course be changes here.)

- The Bolero's second DIN (!) is probably taken up by space for the six CDs that should really have been ripped (?) to mp3 anyway. (Spare space for another row of Yeti buttons?)

Thanks for info about MDI but, as said, our requirements are unfashionably basic and we'll just buy a suitable card. Agreed that sticks are very convenient, though

You can drag and drop mp3 files from your iTunes library (directly from the hard disc not via the application) onto an SDHC card formatted as FAT32, maximum 32gb and 2000 files, however no other format AAC etc will work so beware.

That to me reads a little misleading. The SD card can include both MP3 and WMA files, both formats work perfectly.

And re the Midi, we don't possess an iPod in our house, but do have lots of CD's so our CD player gets used a lot.

Here ya go brijo...

The official Bolero Manual in .pdf format

https://mediaportal.skoda-auto.com/resource/documentation/manuals/en/Yeti/05-2011/Radio/A-SUV_Yeti_Bolero_CarRadio.pdf

And the full manual for the Yeti too...

https://mediaportal.skoda-auto.com/resource/documentation/manuals/en/Yeti/05-2011/Radio/A-SUV_Yeti_Bolero_CarRadio.pdf

Enjoy

Hey! CFB! You're a star!

The pdf is much easier to read than the manual Thanks