Hi

New Skoda Rapid owner and I have a Bolero radio with SD slot. My husband also has a new skoda (superb) and has the Canton sound system. We're both struggling to import our music through an SD card.

 

I'm not a computer technophobe but nor am I close to being expert, so if anyone's kind enough to reply, please spell it out in very basic terms!

 

We have music on his iTunes account - about 38GB, 11000 songs. Tried transferring onto a 128GB sandisc and it looks like it's all there on the computer, but then when I put it in the car, it only lists the artists from "A-C". I see there a folder limit of 1000 on this sound system but not entirely sure what that means - does it mean I can only have 1000 songs? Or is there a way to use an SD card with all our songs on?

 

Also tried transferring all songs to MP3 but it didn't help and the book says it can read AAC files anyway.

 

I know I could create a smaller playlist and just use that, but we'd both ideally have the whole library in. Is it possible? Don't want to use iPhone with smartlink every time, and besides, all the music is linked to his apple ID.

 

I've spent hours trying various things and looked at loads of posts on here, but I can't find the info I need so would very much appreciate some help.

 

Thanks

 

I think the Bolero can only read up to 32GB and the files must be .MP3 or .WMA

Yes, it will only take a 32GB card, anything any bigger and it will not recognise correctly. Even with a 32GB card you will struggle to get full capacity as the headunit can only read so many files and folders so you may be better using 16GB cards and spreading your music over multiple cards.

It's to do with card formatting. Cards above 32GB are formatted as ex-FAT and don't conform to the SDHC standard they are SDXC so they won't read in certain things.

 

My Pioneer sat-nav/app radio won't read anything over 32GB either.

Thanks all. I'm sure I've read some things I here about people using bigger cards. It does see my 128gb card, just not all the folders. Makes sense to just split the music I guess, just know I'll end up not changing them!

At least I'm not missing something obvious. Appreciate the help, thanks.

I had a 32Gb card in mine and only put on around 26Gb of music but found when scrolling through it abruptly stopped with the artists starting with S. Much messing about later to only determine it couldn't read too many files, deleted artists earlier in the alphabet would extend it later on but not the number of files.

 

I split mine into two 16GB cards and it's not as bad to change them as it reads through the smaller cards quicker too when first install them.