B8 A4 - loading i Tunes files onto SD card?

[vapourtrail]

I have the SD card slot in my B8 Avant, and would like to use it. Problem is, all my music is in iTunes, and I'm assuming I won't be able to drag and drop from my iTunes music files onto the SD card?

If I can't simply do that to my 40gb of music, am going to have to convert every file to a common non-Apple format?

I guess I'm not the first to come across this?

I can use the Aux-in to listen to my iPod, but having all my music on one £15 SD card will be simpler.

Cheers

[nick365]

It's not too bad to do once you get into it. I loaded mine as albums and went into each one at a time on iTunes and converted to MP3 files. I then copied the lot onto a named file on the SD card and then deleted the copied MP4 files from the card. Then back to iTunes to delete the MP3s. I know this sounds a faff but it really doesn't take too long and is worth the effort as the sound is good and there is no need to plug devices in to the car. Once it's done it's done and I am not even close to filling up a 32gb with 80 or so albums to date.

Others may have a more efficient method but this works for me. I create files for artists and sub files for each album within which works for me and saves me scrolling through so many titles.

In fact this reminds me to put some more on......

I hope this makes sense

Nick

[RammyMP]

I've got a 12 reg A5 and it reads iTunes files but my mates 10 reg A6 doesn't. Seems the newer cars read more formats.

[nick365]

My 2011 A6 definitely doesn't read MP4 iTunes files although music downloaded from Amazon does seem to be saved as MP3s so a lot less bother as can be simply copied to the card. Audi must have changed their system for 2012.