Music to SD card for COMAND using a Mac problems

[Ari]

I have COMAND in my car (Mercedes) that has a slot for an SD card and for the last four years I've been happily putting music into files on an SD card with my PC which allows me to access them in the car via the COMAND unit.

I've recently updated to an iMac. All my music has been brought across to it, so wanting to use this from now on, I formatted a memory card and dragged a duplication of the car SD card onto it.

When I formatted it there were a couple of options. The default was ExFAT so I tried that. The COMAND unit wouldn't recognise the card at all. So I looked up the correct format in the COMAND instructions and it says to use FAT16. So I had another go, this time I formatted to MS-DOS (FAT) which was the only other FAT option.

This time it recognises something because it says 'Reading memory card' with the rotating circle thing, but gets no further.

Any suggestions?

[Ari]

Thanks.

Can I just format it in the PC and then plug in in the Mac and use it, or doesn't it work that way?

[Ari]

Brilliant - I'll give it a go. Thanks!

[Ari]

Nope - doesn't work at all that way. Doesn't even recognise that there's a card in it...

[Ari]

Just reverted to formatting the card in the PC and loading the music direct from the PC and it still doesn't work!

Starting to think it's either a dodgy card, or I've buggered it up somewhere along the way...

[Ari]

marshalla said:

How big is the new card and how big is the old card ?

Did you force the PC to use FAT16 ?

Both 32GB. It was formatted to the default FAT32 which, to be fair, has always worked before (unless I never formatted the previous card before, I suppose that's possible, but unlikely as I think it came out of a camera initially).

[Ari]

Formatting options on the PC are NTFS, FAT 32 (default), exFAT.

[Ari]

Weird, I've been using a 32GB SD card since I got the car four years ago and it's stuffed with music - so stuffed, in fact, that I decided to use this second card to put playlists on to free up the other for albums.