SD cards to use in Audi A4 DVD Sat Nav

[IainP]

Help! I have an 07 plate A4 Avant with DVD sat nav. Sat Nav has slots for 2 SD cards for music etc. but the manual says that only 256MB cards are supported - surely not these days???

Has anyone used bigger cards (1,2 or 4GB) succesfully?

[dsmith133]

Does anyone know why the 4gb does not work?

[IainP]

Hi, the smaller cards are SD, 2GB and above tend to be SDHC which is not compatible. You can get SD 2GB cards very cheaply on e-bay which work a treat (I use a pair in the Audi). Cheers.

[shaziman]

as long as its not SDHC it'll work. i have 2 x 2gb in mine.

[HouseUK]

I pick my car up on friday and this was one of my questions so ill jump into this thread.

They are Full size (not mini or micro) SD cards that are not SDHC, and the files have to be MP3s? any bit rate restrictions?

The salesman was abit clueless about the whole satnav/stereo issue

[IainP]

Hi, yes they are full size SD cards but must be SD ONLY as SDHC will not work. You can get SD in 2GB quite easily and occasionally 4GB. You can only play MP3's not any other format so if you use iTunes you might need to convert from MP4 to MP3 or set it up to burn as MP3. There are loads of MP4 to MP3 converter tools on the web.

No surprise that the dealers could not help, a bit beyond them i fear

[El Guapo]

I have two 2gb micro sd cards in mine and they work fine. One thing I noticed the other day though was one album that I had converted to MP3 on one of the discs does not show all the tracks on the cars display but if I look at the card on the pc I can see all the tracks? Why is it only showing some tracks in the car but they are all there in MP3 format? I tried formatting the card and then loaded the music again but still the same. I have been ripping my CD's onto my PC in MP3 format with the bit rate on the highest setting to get the best quality. It has worked on others but this one is a bit baffling? Any ideas anyone?

[IainP]

I have the same issue - i reckon the firmware in the unit is not fully comaptible with bigger cards and therefore only displays a limited number of tracks...........you can help a bit of you flatten the folder structure i.e. only have album then tracks instead of artist and album folders followed by the tracks. There is firmware due with the new maps DVD this month I believe, maybe they fix it in that?

[Abyss]

Hi - I pick up my 07 plate A4 Avant on Saturday ( woo-hoo!! ) , and when i was asking about MP3 compatibility, the saleman told me that if I removed the SatNav DVD, it would play a CD/DVD disc full of MP3's - any idea if this is true or not? The salesman didn't seem too sure !!!

[IainP]

Yes it plays normal CD's and CD's with MP3's on them. I've never tried a DVD containing MP3's though and it will also not play DVD movies!!