The last time I tried a car with an SD card reader was 4 years ago. It was in a Superb and the only random option was within the alum folder. On the latest Bolero, can you have a random selection that allows music to be played from different folders?

 

I will be having the artist==>Album==>Song structure with a mainly MP3 files.

 

Just need to know if I can make do with the SD reader or should delect the MMI option.

 

Thanks

 

Steve

According to the manual you can set random to include subfolders. You can have a browse of it here...

http://www.skoda-auto.com/en/mini-apps/owners-manuals/octavia

page 25, under media settings.

Random play only works if you start it from the root of the card.

Random play only works if you start it from the root of the card.

 

You can also do this with any version of the Columbus and Amundsen, including those from the Superb/Fabia etc.

 

Simply copy any track to the top of the SD card so that it is above all the other music folders.

Start playing this track and then select random, the system will then random play across the whole card.

Which starts another topic: Which track would you put at the root of the SD card?  

 

AC/DC Back in Black?  :clap: <-- He (just about) claps in time with it.

Which starts another topic: Which track would you put at the root of the SD card?  

 

AC/DC Back in Black?  :clap: <-- He (just about) claps in time with it.

Thin Lizzy Boys are back in town?

AC/DC Thunderstruck

Foo Fighters Best of you

St Winifreds School Choir Grandma we love you

Wait, what..Eh no didn't mean to type that last one...WHERES THE DAMN EDIT BUTTON

 

For the sake of a couple of pounds per month I've ordered the MMI. This will be my third vRS. I feel a new thread coming on!

I dont have a clue what is meant by adding a file to the root. I have found my bolero will play random through one album but not across albums. So i have uploded individual albums, then added all the tracks to one file like one big album. Thats is how i play all the random tracks. The thing is all the tunes have to be added twice. The album art shows when an album plays but not on random .

The root is the 'first location' of the card, i.e. not in a folder "SDcard:/music.mp3" Non root would be "SDcard:/folder/music.mp3" - the solution for randomisation across the entire card appears to be that its fine to have folders (albums) in the root, as long as you have one mp3 in the root, and start playing that first.

Thanks for the explanation, i think i get the gist of what you are saying. If i add one tune as an mp3 to the sd card then add all the albums into that mp3 that should be able to play randomly across all the albums ?

Can you just put all the MP3s in the root, labelled as [artist]-[album]-[title].MP3 ?

Thanks for the explanation, i think i get the gist of what you are saying. If i add one tune as an mp3 to the sd card then add all the albums into that mp3 that should be able to play randomly across all the albums ?

yw. According to the posts above, that should be the case. I'll try it in mine tomorrow (Which I've just picked up  :clap:  ).

if it works the same as on my card in my leon it will play the first track it finds which on mine is an mp3 sound effect of a tape being pushed into a front loading car head unit....

Will that trick work if I have the "starter" track in a sub folder and all the music in folders below? That way I can have podcasts, radio shows, audio books, and other items excluded from the shuffle?

Anyone know if there is a limit to the number total number of files and folders, or a limit on the files within any folder?

I'm picking up my car in a few days and am prepping my SD card.

Edited 25 January, 201511 yr by hobbie2k

Also, the manual suggests that the Bolero has only been tested with media up to 32Gb, but I thought I saw it advertised as 64Gb...  Did I misunderstand something or will a 64Gb card work?