SD card - tracklistings

[Jop]

I'm really surprised at this thread.
I use an imac, I couldn't believe it was so hard to load an SD card with music.
So, I had to test.

I grabbed a 2Gb SD card from Mrs Jop's samsung camera. put it in the card reader that cost me 2.99 from a petrol station, didnt bother formatting it and dragged over one folder of about 10 songs from the finder (not the itunes application)

Put it in one of the sd slot in the car and hey presto ....(to quote an apple tag line) "it just works"

there were the image files still on the card and, of course, they didn't play.
But the music played just fine.

Remember... keep it simple stupid.

[martin@wolfy]

Hi I'm having the same problem with my MacBook. Can you please tell me how to solve this and witch software to use. Thanks

I use a program called blue harvest, simply tick all the items you want it to clean in the settings and then right click on the SD folder and choose clean up with Blue Harvest when you have transferred you tracks.


wolfy!!!!

[leehal]

I'm really surprised at this thread.
I use an imac, I couldn't believe it was so hard to load an SD card with music.
So, I had to test.

I grabbed a 2Gb SD card from Mrs Jop's samsung camera. put it in the card reader that cost me 2.99 from a petrol station, didnt bother formatting it and dragged over one folder of about 10 songs from the finder (not the itunes application)

Put it in one of the sd slot in the car and hey presto ....(to quote an apple tag line) "it just works"

there were the image files still on the card and, of course, they didn't play.
But the music played just fine.

Remember... keep it simple stupid.

Not wanting to rain on your parade, but, try installing multiple folders, different file formats etc. I consider myself to be very competant with both PCs and Macs and this is far from easy. Sometimes it works, somtimes it doesn't.

[bradshep]

To all Mac users.

After many hours of serching on the internet I have found a way to remove those pesky ._ files that show up on the sd card when playing music tracks. Apple added a tool for removing the files by using the terminal when they relised leopard.

To remove them, open up terminal and type dot_clean -m leave a space after the m then drag and drop the folder or sd card to the terminal window, this enters the correct path into the script for you, press enter and your done.

This method worked for me Hope it helps, let me know how you get on.

Brad

[dandy27]

Only two weeks til my beast arrives, and im getting really imaptient now, every flippin night im dreaming about what button im pressing next.

So thought as I was bored on Saturday, I would go for another spin by Peterborough Audi. I had my fully loaded SD card i my pocket and decided to pop in, sit in one of the Sline A4`s in the showroom and pop the card in.

To my amazement, all 46 albums showed and tracklistsings perfect. I coulndt help but to crank up the volume, especially when the track I selected was the Phonics.

So it appears everything is ready. I have a macbook and simply dragged the files from the itunes library onto the card. I did see those annoying hidden files people are mentioning, but didnt bother me too much.

Spent the rest of the weekend importing all my CD`s into itunes and ensuring all the tags were up to date.

BTW, if your importing a cd to itunes, make sure you select the option to import as MP3. I got caught out by that as by default itunes brings them in as ACC, which your Auid aint gonna recognize.

[troc]

The Audi MMI system works with AAC files quite happily - what it doesn't play are any DRM'd or "protected" files - which is whar iTunes used to sell, although now you can choose to get the high(er)-quality ones without DRM instead (or maybe that's all they sell now?). Anything ending in .m4a should be fine (I've a number of albums I bought from iTunes and they all play in the car from an SD card, or the jukebox)

It won't play the .m4b format that iTunes uses to define an audiobook though but as these are exactly the same as .m4a files, you can just rename them

John

[leehal]

My issues seem to be sorted too, seems my iTunes library contained MP3s and M4a's and the two don't mix.

Any albums I want to add in M4a format I change to MP3 using iTunes.

[troc]

My issues seem to be sorted too, seems my iTunes library contained MP3s and M4a's and the two don't mix.

Any albums I want to add in M4a format I change to MP3 using iTunes.

I'm still puzzled by this - I just checked and I can play .m4a files from an SD card without a problem. I tried ones I've ripped myself and also some of the ones I bought from iTunes. Might be different MMI versions? Most of my library is .m4a these days in fact as I re-ripped everything last year (that was fun..........)

(I'm simply dragging and dropping music from my iTunes folder to the SD cards on my mac btw)

If I had a wishlist (other than the 4000 file limit that seems to exist), it's be for the 3G MMI to rip cds onto the jukebox for me

[ScottyUK]

If it could rip (and I've seen it discussed on a German forum that it may be possible!) would you want to accept the standard rip or would you rather do it on a computer where you can set the format etc?

In car would be easy but then you'd have to take the CD out there so there's no advantage. It's easier to do it in doors and get better quality.

[troc]

True Scotty - I'd not want it for the usual stuff but occasionally I've been round at a mate's or whatever and wanted a copy of something - usually can't be bothered with booting computers, ripping and then finding some way to get the tracks to the car - so in this case, chucking the disc in the car would be a nice solution.

John