Hiya, I'm new to the forum.  I'm Julian, in S.Bucks, UK.  Recently got a 2015 Octavia Scout, and I've got an issue with the USB stick.  Sorry if this has already been addressed here - I looked but couldn't find any other mention of it.

My issue is that I've put about 100 albums onto a USB stick and put it in the car.  It was fine for a few days but then I noticed the car was only 'seeing' about 20 of the albums, but there was an "unknown album" with every song from the other 80 albums, in alphabetical order!  So I get Beatles followed by Springsteen, then Nick Cave, artists all mixed up but songs in alphabetical order.

I mentioned this to my main dealer (Hughes in Aylesbury) when I took it in the other day for an oil service and the guy there said he'd heard about the issue before and it was an unfixable problem caused by too small a cache in the unit!  Surely not???  It's mental!!  The car has a slot for a USB stick but if you put anymore than about 3Gb of music on there it can't read it?  Bonkers!

 

So - my questions are...

Have you guys heard of this before?  What do you suggest I do, is the guy at Hughes correct?

What if I use an SD card - will I have the same problem?

 

All help and advice very gratefully received! 

Can't comment specifically regarding the unit in your 2015 Octavia Scout, but the Amundsen in my 2014 Yeti happily reads 64 Gb of varied music, stored on an SD card.

 

These are all stored in separate folders (one per album) and I recall reading somewhere the file limit was something around 10 000 files, a limit I'm clearly not reaching with my 64Gb SD card (which is full).

 

My 2017 SEAT Toledo has a similar system to your Octavia (I think) and I use both a 64 Gb USB stick and a 64Gb SD card in this simultaneously, both of which are formatted FAT32 and have the same file system (one folder per album) to that described above.

 

Hope you get it sorted

^^^^ That's good info, thank you chap.  Maybe it's an issue with how the tracks were encoded.  I'll look into it.

Thanks again.

I also have a 2015 Octavia mine has the Bolero (MIB1) unit.

The SD card works well but the USB socket is almost useless. It only provides a measly 0.5A for charging and as you've found out it cannot handle reading music files from a stick without getting its bits and bytes in a muddle. Simply crap.