Hi All,

I have the Columbus unit in my Suberb. Brilliant piece of kit. Since realising is was able to playback lossless FLAC files I’ve loaded up a Sandisk Extreme 64GB card full of them.

Most work fine but have noticed a handful experience momentary stutter on playback something I would normally attribute to a poor encode. However when I playback on my PC it’s faultless.

I’ve started porting some to MP3 320kbps as this seems to works without issue.

Anyone else experience similiar?

Yes i have the same problem. Also after updating the firmware on columbus. I have not found a solution.

Have the same issues with FLAC and with MP3’s occasionally too. No idea if they’re buffered or not. 

Reassuring to know its

not just me. Maybe the quality of the DAC ain’t up to scratch in these.

Very odd though as never had the issue in other VAG vehicles.

I've come to the conclusion this must be some issue (software?) with the digital audio decoder in these head units. It's not intermittent and I can make it do it at the same points with certain tracks. 

Converting a FLAC to an MP3 sorts it but then other MP3's have the issue - totally random and no trend to this behaviour.

Would be interested to know if anyone also experiences this when playing media from their smartphone through the head unit.

 

Only thing is.. to get this looked at by Skoda would probably be a painful experience and i don't know if i have the energy to go through that. Being as my car is 4+years old even with extended warranty is this really something Skoda will want to invest time in.

Do you know the software train that's loaded on your system?

 

Maybe there's an update.

8 minutes ago, varooom said:

Do you know the software train that's loaded on your system?

 

Maybe there's an update.

Hi, don't follow what you mean by 'train'. I updated the SATNAV when i bought the car a few months back.

I noticed the extra facility that comes with subscribed users has expired so not sure all possible components have been updated.

It's the firmware loaded onto the unit, you can usually find the value by holding down menu/setup key for 10 seconds.

 

There maybe a fix you can install.

Edited 21 October, 20223 yr by varooom
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