SD card playback on RNS510
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Recently bought a Golf with this HU fitted (touch screen navigation jobbie), and it has an SD card slot for playing music. However i have loaded a few hundred songs on a card, and the only one that it plays was an MP3 purchase from Amazon. The other songs are from my iTunes library.
Please help a technophobe out. What have i done wrong? Are the iTunes files unplayable on this unit or something? For reference the songs were not iTunes purchases, but copied from CD's onto the library.
Many thanks for any input.
Please help a technophobe out. What have i done wrong? Are the iTunes files unplayable on this unit or something? For reference the songs were not iTunes purchases, but copied from CD's onto the library.
Many thanks for any input.
Yep, won't play mp4a (itunes format) as it's a licenced format owned by Apple, who seem to have a better relationship with Google.
If you have the original source media (CDs) then you can use Windows Media Player to basically create an MP3 version of your music (worth doing high-ish bit rate as it does sound better), which it will dump in your 'My Music' location with the usual file structure by artist and album.
If you only have itunes format for some music, including stuff you've bought from the Apple store, go to album and right click on it and somewhere you will find an option to convert to an alternative format. The downside to doing this is your albums then appear twice in itunes, although you can then cut and paste from wherever itunes looks for the files and put them somewhere else.
I've ended up keeping my music segregated as it's easier - itunes library is on a NAS server and the mp3 stuff is on a hard drive in my desktop as that's the only place I dump music onto SD cards from. If I buy anything new on CD I import it twice - once into itunes in mp4a and again via Media Player in mp3. Less hassle organising folders then
If you have the original source media (CDs) then you can use Windows Media Player to basically create an MP3 version of your music (worth doing high-ish bit rate as it does sound better), which it will dump in your 'My Music' location with the usual file structure by artist and album.
If you only have itunes format for some music, including stuff you've bought from the Apple store, go to album and right click on it and somewhere you will find an option to convert to an alternative format. The downside to doing this is your albums then appear twice in itunes, although you can then cut and paste from wherever itunes looks for the files and put them somewhere else.
I've ended up keeping my music segregated as it's easier - itunes library is on a NAS server and the mp3 stuff is on a hard drive in my desktop as that's the only place I dump music onto SD cards from. If I buy anything new on CD I import it twice - once into itunes in mp4a and again via Media Player in mp3. Less hassle organising folders then
FuryExocet said:
In iTunes, select the songs that won't play, then from one of the top menus, choose the option to create mp3
Seems strange but it says (most) of my tunes are AAC version, and when I go to the option to create new version, the only option available is to create an AAC version!?Gassing Station | Audi, Seat, Skoda & VW | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff