MDI niggles

[Frankenstrat]

I don't have an iPod, what I DO have is a 500MB pen drive attached to the MDI. It plays the tunes in artist alphabetical order. They're mostly MP3s and I've edited the properties of each one to artist & title, eg Emser Evodia. I can skip backwards and forwards, part way through a tune and it will always display the correct name of the tune. I didn't copy the tunes onto the pen drive in alphabetical order, but the TOC is read in alphabetical order and that's how they play.

The tunes were mostly downloaded from a recording web site that I frequent and they're all talented amateurs (especially Emser).

[kennyc]

Thought i would test out the iphone & MDI today - i noticed that it can skip a song whereas my ipod doesn't.
Neither start playing at the first song when you hit > on the album folder.

May mention this to the dealer when I go in, but probably won't even do an audio upgrade if i can't get something this basic to work (and get an exhaust instead).

My iphone doesn't skip songs and always starts in alphabetical order. No probs with it. I just leave it in shuffel mode (MIX on the RCD-510)

[G-rig]

I meant If you play an album take note as it can skip songs.

If it's on mix how do you know if it's skipped a song if you catch my drift .

[kennyc]

I meant If you play an album take note as it can skip songs.

If it's on mix how do you know if it's skipped a song if you catch my drift .

its not on mix when im in an album, only on mix when in the general all music folder

[G-rig]

Re: MDI niggles

Either way I'll be asking for a new MDI as it simply isn't good enough and factory fit is worse than the last one I retro fitted so they have screwed up something with the new firmware. May have to get an aftermarket headunit.

[Maverick]

Either way I'll be asking for a new MDI as it simply isn't good enough and factory fit is worse than the last one I retro fitted so they have screwed up something with the new firmware. May have to get an aftermarket headunit.

Your last MDI was connected to a RNS 510. It's most likely the RCD 510 that is at "fault".

[G-rig]

Your last MDI was connected to a RNS 510. It's most likely the RCD 510 that is at "fault".

I dont think so, I was using the MDI with an RCD510 (previous model with the TP/Trip buttons not the AM/FM buttons) which worked perfectly fine with the MDI. Beats me.

[Frankenstrat]

My iphone doesn't skip songs and always starts in alphabetical order. No probs with it. I just leave it in shuffel mode (MIX on the RCD-510)

I wonder if there's a setting somewhere to force it to play in the sequence in which the tunes were copied?

[kennyc]

I wonder if there's a setting somewhere to force it to play in the sequence in which the tunes were copied?

Yeah not sure, i didn't change any settings on the RCD-510 and just copied them normally on itunes.
Yours doesn't play in alphabetical order?

[hooba]

Anyone else having trouble fitting an iPad into the centre console?

[Frankenstrat]

Yeah not sure, i didn't change any settings on the RCD-510 and just copied them normally on itunes.
Yours doesn't play in alphabetical order?

Yes, they do play in alphabetical order, but I would prefer them to play in the sequence in which I originally copied them (one at a time) onto the USB pen-drive.

Thinking about this a little more I've just realised what happened. I have a huge number of MP3s on my hard drive, the vast majority of which are non-commercial recordings. I listened to each one for a few seconds and decided whether or not to drag and drop it onto the USB drive. Listen, DnD, listen DnD etc.

I played this in the car and it did indeed play in the order they were dropped onto the USB drive. However, some of the names of the tunes were so long that they would bleed off the end of the screen. So I took the USB drive out of the car and shoved it into a USB port on my PC at home. I went through and edited all of the names such that they would fit onto the screen. So, for example "dan_thompson_band_mandomadness_192_mix3" became "DTB Mando Madness". So having renamed most of the tunes on the USB drive the table of contents (TOC) was rewritten and that's why it now plays in alphabetical order. The only solution to this so far as I can see is to dump the tunes onto my HDD, erase the USB drive then drag the tunes back one by one in the order I want them to play in. I'll give this a burl over the weekend and report back.

[Corey_R]

Or, just rename the files with
01-<title>.mp3
02-<title>.mp3
etc

[G-rig]

Yes, they do play in alphabetical order, but I would prefer them to play in the sequence in which I originally copied them (one at a time) onto the USB pen-drive.

Thinking about this a little more I've just realised what happened. I have a huge number of MP3s on my hard drive, the vast majority of which are non-commercial recordings. I listened to each one for a few seconds and decided whether or not to drag and drop it onto the USB drive. Listen, DnD, listen DnD etc.

I played this in the car and it did indeed play in the order they were dropped onto the USB drive. However, some of the names of the tunes were so long that they would bleed off the end of the screen. So I took the USB drive out of the car and shoved it into a USB port on my PC at home. I went through and edited all of the names such that they would fit onto the screen. So, for example "dan_thompson_band_mandomadness_192_mix3" became "DTB Mando Madness". So having renamed most of the tunes on the USB drive the table of contents (TOC) was rewritten and that's why it now plays in alphabetical order. The only solution to this so far as I can see is to dump the tunes onto my HDD, erase the USB drive then drag the tunes back one by one in the order I want them to play in. I'll give this a burl over the weekend and report back.

Sounds like user error .

It has nothing to do with what order they are copied onto the USB. It may be worth making sure all the ID3 tags/file names are neat, and place each albums in it's own folder. You are able to brows by artist, album or song etc and will be in alphabetical order.

[Frankenstrat]

Or, just rename the files with
01-<title>.mp3
02-<title>.mp3
etc

Yes, that would certainly work, but I don't particularly want the numerical prefix to appear on the MDI screen. I'm a Virgoan, ergo pedantry is my raison d'etre.

Sounds like user error

Not sure I follow you there.

It has nothing to do with what order they are copied onto the USB.

I could have faulty recall regarding the original order the MP3s played in (pre-renaming), but I feel certain that it was the same order in which they were dragged individually not en-masse onto the USB-drive.

So until I conduct my experiment over the weekend I can neither confirm nor refute your statement. All of the MP3s were placed in the root directory of the USB drive, no albums/folders/sub-directories. The MP3s on my HDD are in alphabetical order and in various directories. Of course, I could click on the Date Modified column in Windows Explorer and the MP3s would appear in chronological order.

[Corey_R]

I don't have the MDI, so I can't test anything, but if the files are actually tagged properly, will it display the file name or the MP3 ID Title?
If it displays the title, but still uses the file name as the order, that would resolve your issue perfectly.