![]() I also thought when I went to the SD card that the sound quality was marginally better, so I pulled up a couple tracks with crisp highs and low lows and flipped back and forth between the iPod and the SD card and listened to the same parts back to back, over and over. m3u extensions or track numbers when viewing the tracks on the playlist. are pretty clean with the SD card, they are still just a tad cleaner when the iPod is docked, and I don't have to see playlist. I also still feel that while the menus/directories etc. Ultimately I decided that I'm not interested in looking any further into this, primarily because I've been religiously maintaining my iTunes library with extreme OCD for 15 years and I'm not interested in starting to screw with it just for this MIB-II unit, which I won't have forever, unlike my iTunes library which I will have forever and which will always be supported natively by Apple devices. I looked at some tracks that were 600 x 600 and some that were 1400 x 1400, some of each worked, some of each didn't, so that wasn't the issue. Before buying these 7 songs, I looked at a couple tracks I had that were and weren't showing the artwork via the SD card to see if I could identify any differences, and I couldn't - I just didn't see any reason why some songs would show their artwork via SD card and others wouldn't, especially since they all show up when using the iPod. All of them did when I hooked up my iPod. None of these fresh-from-iTunes songs displayed artwork on the MIB-II unit when played from the SD card. iTunes now uses 1400x1400 resolution for artwork, I had no idea they bumped it up so much but that's awesome. I bought 7 new songs off iTunes today and put them on a playlist, and moved it to both the SD card and my iPod. So, all these years later, a permanently docked and hardwired iPod still reigns supreme. No idea on this one, seems like a lot of people have this problem.Ĥ) I think the sound quality is ever so slightly better.Īll in all kind of a pain in the ass to set up, and I may struggle a bit the first couple times I want to take the SD card out to add songs to it, but overall it's actually a little improvement over a plugged in iPod due to the voice command support and slightly better sound quality, even at the cost of some of the album art. ![]() They show up on the iPod and in iTunes, as these are even on songs purchased recently through iTunes, so there is zero reason for the artwork not to show in the head unit. Nice surprise even if no voice support for playlists.ģ) Quite a few of the album artwork doesn't show up. Why can't I say "Play playlist XX"? Well, voice command didn't work at all with an iPod plugged in, so I was happy to find a lot of voice command support for the SD card method. ![]() Kind of dumb when I can use voice commands for choosing artists, tracks, etc. Not a big deal, but kind of dumb that the tracks have this extra info only when viewed through the playlist.Ģ) For whatever reason VW decided to withhold voice commands for selecting playlists, have to do it through the head unit. m4a extension (but at least it doesn't show either of these things on the main screen when playing). It kind of sucks that when viewing the tracks on a playlist in list format, you are stuck having to view the track number as well as the. This method works pretty well, but wanted to make a couple comments:ġ) I couldn't find any way to export tracks without the track number. So, I started looking at the SD card slot method and came across this thread. However, my new Tiguan's USB port is not hidden, and I don't really like the idea of my old nano which is like a $30 iPod on its best day out in sight for thieves to smash a window over. No matter how you move your files to your media, arrange them like this:īumping this, I also am someone who has never used anything but a permanently docked iPod in any of my cars, as it really is the best solution. Very reasonable price for all its capabilities.įormat your media as ExFAT. Later I'll talk about how I exported mine via a MacOS program called Export for iTunes, which sells for $7.99 in the App Store. More on that later.īelow is the file layout you want on your SD card or USB stick. Second, you lose the "Coverplay" functionality, which I think a lot of people don't even realize is a thing as it's not documented in the manual. One, I don't want to leave any iPod hooked up in my car 24/7, especially during the summer months here in Phoenix, when car interiors reach surface-of-the-sun-like temperatures. This solution works quite well, however there are a few downsides. ![]() When I first bought my '16 Golf R last June, I put an iPod Nano semi-permanently in the center cubby, thinking I'd found the ideal solution for having complete access to all my music and playlists all the time, without having to plug in my iPhone and use CarPlay. ![]()
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