Hi, I'm lovingly new Yeti and the Bluetooth media system. I can play music but am a bit frustrated there seems no way to scroll the contents of my iPhone's music files. It seems I have to find what I want to listen on the iphone first, then connect. Thereafter I can go forward and back. Fine on short trips, bit of a pest on longer ones.

Am I missing something? Thanks!

Yes, an MDI connection!!

What head do you have.

Alice2000,

unless you paid the ??? extra for mdi, what you have is correct. When you get to the end of your chosen album I find on my iPod nano it will default to random play.

 

Colin

The £140 MDI option is a box well worth ticking.

The £140 MDI option is a box well worth ticking.

£175...but still worth ticking.

The VAG MDI set up is a baffling rip off: £175 for the MDI and then they have the cheek to charge a further £75 for the necessary lightning to MDI connector. What on earth is wrong with a simple USB port? Like you'd find on any £50 device from Aldi? Even my mum's 8-year old Panda has a USB port!

Whoever charged you £75 for the lightning to MDI connector ripped you off.

Our dealer gave us ours for free.

 

And you can buy them on ebay for about £20.

I refused to pay (for the MDI) as at the time of receiving our Yeti there was no sign of the lightning connector even becoming available. I bought one off fleabay but haven't gotten around to fitting it yet.

 

Do you not find it bizarre though that VAG insist on persisting with their bespoke connector and the associated box of hamsters that convert the music files into component audio, track information and control feeds? Surely a better option for them would be to dispense with Continental's head units in lieu of something slightly less convoluted?

With a usb port can you select tracks etc using the steering wheel controls, or do you have to do this on the device whilst driving?

In my Abarth, which connects via a USB port, I've got full control of my iPhone through the steering wheel controls, tracks, albums, playlists, artists, genres are all displayed through the dot matrix display in the centre of the speedo. It exactly replicates the functionality of the mdi in the yeti.