Hi 

 

i have been using a 64gb memory card in my Skoda octavia and have now got it how i want it but it seems that the maximum number of tracks it will see is 999.

is there a way i can get it to see more ?

Does anyone have any advice they can offer?

 

thanks.

Which head unit do you have? I have a 128Gb card and more than 500 albums so roughly 5000 tracks. I can't say I've noticed any issues. 

I have way more that 1,000 tracks on my relatively ancient 2014 MIB1 system.

 

Are you putting all of your tracks in a single folder on the SD card?  If so, that may be the issue.  I've got mine all sorted into folders by artist and album name.

On my MIB1 Amundsen I used a 200GB SD card with over 40,000 tracks on it, all playable - sorted by artist and album as iriches says.

Likewise I have Artist / Album as my folder structure . In fact I think the sync may create a single top level folded on the SD card called Music which contain the Artist folders. But as above, too many tracks in a folder may be the issue.

Yep - I've just looked in my manual, and it confirms that the system can display a max of 1000 files / folders in a single folder.

 

@briintheskyYou'll need to re-organise your music files so that no more than 1000 are in any single folder.  You don't have to do it my artist/album if that's a pain, any subdivision will do.  I just use artist/album as that's what Windows Media Player automagically creates on my PC.

 

I'll give a shout out for MusicBee (https://getmusicbee.com/) which is the most phenomenal - and free - music manager. And it has a nice "sync to device" feature to keep your SD card in sync with the collection.

thanks for all the advice.

I think it is the fact that i have been putting it all in one folder.

Had a go today and it seems ok when there are multiple folders, can you set it to play the folders randomly ?

 

head unit says H29.319.29.3_STD2NAV_EU whatever that means?

 

Thanks again 

off to check out music bee

Hi

i have been experimenting and the advice given worked.

i set up a 64gb card and using musicbee transferred multiple folders and then played them successfully.

 

I then got brave and bought a 512mb micro sd card and tried to transfer my whole library (365gb) all in Flac format.

Unfortunately that's where it went wrong, i kept getting fails on the transfer then when i did get it to transfer it would only be able to read 1 in every 20 files.

I am not sure if it is the micro card (not a known make) is the issue or if the head unit is not fond of flac files.

 

So i need to either convert everything to some form of MP3 and try that or try a more expensive Sd card.

 

any thoughts anyone??

 

Bc

I used to use a micro SD card (plus adapter) of over 200GB with around 15,000 MP3 files on a MIB1 Amundsen with no problems.

 

My first guess would be that it's a slow multi-layer memory card causing the problem as if it can read 1 in 20 FLAC files then the file format is probably not the issue - especially as I've had lots of (non-Skoda) problems with those sorts of SD cards.

I have a 200GB SD card with nearly 6000 files at 124GB in total. All the files are FLAC and have no issues.

 

Maybe your SD card or transfer method is causing the issue.

 

Good luck.

Yes 

i think you may be right the card is definitely suspect.

I think i need to secure a better card and try again.

I have tried several transfer methods and failed but after doing some research i found one that seemed to work.

However i am open to suggestions of any others that are reccomended.

 

Bc

Hi, can you use an old navigation card to put music on ?