Hi all,

Looking for help,

I have a two month old vrs and prior to this I had a superb, in the superb I played my music via an external hard drive and by using the MDI cable. I started using the same hard drive in the vrs by plugging it directly into the USB port. The hard drive developed a fault so I purchased a new one, however, when I plugged the new one in i get the message contained in the photograph. I tried another hard drive and that wasn't even recognised at all. I spoke to Skoda Customer services and their technical team advised that hard drives cannot be used in this way despite me doing it previously and the instructions saying that you can !!

Skoda advised that music can only be streamed via Bluetooth or by plugging in an iPod, however, when I tried this the iPod charges but won't play any music unless it is via Bluetooth. I spoke to Skoda about this and they advised that it will only charge.

I have a lot of music and so the hard drive was ideal for me and I am. It convinced with the answers given by Skoda.

anybody come across a similar problem or has any suggestions ?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Hi Dredd

Don't know if this helps but I recently purchased a vrs and I stream music through a micro USB drive plugged directly into the USB port. I am also able to play music via a y cable with my iPhone as the quality is better (I find) than streaming over the Bluetooth

Cheers,

What is a y cable ?

I may have gave it the wrong name lol but it's a cable that connects directly to your iPhone then splits into a y shape at the end with a head phone jack and a USB. You can pick them up on amazon very cheaply however all your steering column controls don't always work with the cheaper cables.

Cheers mate I will have a look

I found today that I can stream from my phone via usb quite by accident. I usually use bluetooth, but used a different cable et. voila! Also as above, it using host powered devices, I've found that the built in usb port doesnt supply enough power. Having to use the lighter socket to run device doing satnav / dash cam / bluetooth as on the usb it runs out of juice!

Have you a link to these cables?

Hi, 

I can think of two possible problems which can prevent you from accessing the music on your hard drive:

 

- not all USB ports can provide sufficient power to spin a hard drive properly. It is possible that your old drive required less power to operate. Ususally if the hard disk doesn't get enough power, you can hear strange sounds comming from it (like the disk is trying to spin up and failing). Unfortunately if this is the case, there is not much you can do, other than buying a new disk and hoping it works.

 

- the new disk might be formatted with an incompatible file system. I am pretty sure that the stereo supports only FAT32, so if your hard drive is formatted with NTFS, you won't be able to access it. In that case you can simply format the disk with FAT32. Be careful, all data on the disk will be destroyed during the format!