Just looking for max size accepted, format i.e. FAT32, NTFS etc.

 

The car will be a 2016 Octavia vRS as these have no CD players I believe.

 

Must admit when I hired a Fabia it was brill doing 4 hours of driving without having to change a CD  :clap:  but the Fabia had CarPlay which my Octy doesn't. And I didn't manage to hear music off the USB stick I tried.

 

 

I've run 128Gb formatted as both NTFS and exFAT with no problems.

 

I tend to stick with a 32Gb though formatted using this

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

and leave it at the default settings

I've got a 256Gb SD card - don't know about the formatting; just copied my whole iTunes library onto it and everything works perfectly. As I recall from the brochure (which may be accessible online) the Amundsen accepts just about any format.

Quick format from Windows should be fine.

Yep, jus got a 2GB SD card and formatted from Windows as the manual says and we are all good :-).

Cards of 64G and above are formatted exFAT by default. Other formats may work fine but you may run into trouble accessing the card on some systems (Windows etc). As far as I know the head units are smart enough to read all common formats.

TBH I don't miss the CD player, the SD card route has huge advantage of how many songs you can store, unlucky to hear the same track twice in a 2 hour journey  :clap:

 

Apart from once needing to eject the SD card it has worked OK after being continously in the car for 5 days now

Edited 28 February, 201610 yr by davitc

I use a 500Gb external hdd plugged into the USB port but at first it wouldn't read the music. It had to be formatted in FAT32. However ,Windows doesn't format any hdd larger than 32Gb in FAT32 so i had to end up downloading a programme from Verbatim to format it. Works fine now. It also doesn't detect any songs in MPEG-4 (Apple lossless) on the hdd so i had to convert them all to MP3.