Scirocco Central

Morning folks.

Good news! My Scirocco is being built this week. (build week 15)
Any projections on when I will get it are greatly welcomed.

HOWEVER, right now, I need to know about the stereo system in it. Can I download a manual for it from anywhere? Its the non sat nav one by the way.
I'm currently preparing a usb hard drive with 80gb of music on it to live in the car. Will this work ok?
Is there some sort of library on the stereo that organises the music on the disk?

Fill me in folks. Hit me with your hints and tips.

x

Hi Felon

you can download the radio manuals from here in roccopedia, you need the first one (RCD510)

S

Do all models have the cd changer built in?

No, RC510 does (6), other have single CD and use a 6 way player unit fitted as an extra (cost) under the centre arm rest.

The RCD510 has a USB connection and the HDD will go neatly under the arm rest in the empty packet VW use when a 6 way CD player unit is not fitted.

If you do a search on "HDD + USB" there a few topics on file organising the HDD.

C.

80Gb HDD - is it a proper powered HDD? Or do you mean an 8Gb USB flash drive (thats what i have and use by the way). If it is 80Gb, thats a lot of music

If it is a proper HDD, that is not going to fit in your arm rest as there isnt much room in there at all, and you will need to think how you are going to power it.

Congratulations by the way, you are going to love it!

Gilez wrote:80Gb HDD - is it a proper powered HDD? Or do you mean an 8Gb USB flash drive (thats what i have and use by the way). If it is 80Gb, thats a lot of music

If it is a proper HDD, that is not going to fit in your arm rest as there isnt much room in there at all, and you will need to think how you are going to power it.

Congratulations by the way, you are going to love it!

Most 2.5" external drives are powered over USB..

Its should be fine, I'd probably make sure its formatted as FAT32 as that the most likely structure it will read..

Gilez wrote:80Gb HDD - is it a proper powered HDD? Or do you mean an 8Gb USB flash drive (thats what i have and use by the way). If it is 80Gb, thats a lot of music

If it is a proper HDD, that is not going to fit in your arm rest as there isnt much room in there at all, and you will need to think how you are going to power it.

Congratulations by the way, you are going to love it!

Most 2.5" drives should fit without a problem.

Hey!

You guys are awesome.

It is indeed an 80gb 2.5" HDD. Its in a usb caddy. Teeny weeny.

Its currently formatted in NTFS. I think people have had issues with this, so i may well convert it to FAT32. I imagine the usb connection is primarily designed for usb sticks, which are always fat32.

Will report back my findings. Car arrives VERY soon.

TTFN.

Evening good people.

SO.
The car came on weds. I think I love it a little bit. Probably not healthy...

Anyway, back to business.
My 80gb sata 2.5" HDD, formatted to fat32, works like a dream. With some simple folder structuring (folders listed A-Z wby artist), browsing for albums is a piece of metaphorical cake. Seriously brilliant.

As Columbo once said, 'JUST ONE MORE THING';
Every time I switch off and back on again. It goes back to the same sodding track at the beginning of the folder structure, instead of resuming the last track.
This is mildly infuriating, combined with the fact its making me hate that one particular song with a mild passion. I think I can live with this, I don't want to, but I'm guessing its not high on VW priorities.
The only current work-round i can conjure up at present, is muting it as I switch onto the HDD, then searching for something new. Alternatively, I could record someone with dulcet tones saying 'Welcome back, please choose a song...', or something else of mildly entertaining nature, that may in some way impress passengers....

I like your idea very smart!

I have a simple 8gb flash drive neatly plugged in leaving space for other stuff but it resumes on any song i was playing before - does it reset because its a hard drive not a solid state drive?

I this even if you switch the engine off?
Good question by the way.

I used to have a 2gb USB that worked fine in the car, but I upgraded to an 8gb usb recently and I have to manually disconnect and reconnect the usb everytime I turn the ignition off in order for it to read. Anyone have any idea why? (sorry for the thread derail)

P.s , 80gb of music?! Thats alot haha

I've been using a 8GB USB stick with no problems. Its FAT32 and like you I've got artists listed A-Z in folders in the root directory. Within those folders are the folders for the albums by that artist, containing the actual tracks.
Mine starts up where it left off every time, even with playlists. It seems that the USB connector is powered up from the moment you unlock the car.

How did you put your folders on the drive ? Did you manually create and name folders and place tracks in them ? Or did you use a music manager program to do it all for you using the ID3 tags attached to your tracks ? I used the Media Monkey to arrange mine by their tags and as I say it all works fine.
I can't see why a HDD should work any differently than a USB stick. Presumably everything is powered down when the car is locked up so "remembering" where you were up to must be build in to the head unit.

If you can't fine a away round your problem and your first track is still annoying you every time - why not record 2 minutes of complete silence and put it in a folder by Aaron Aardvark. That should relieve the stress each morning.

sadly this has been found by people previously & there doesn't seem to be a work around yet its just the risk you run to have the larger storage capacity in the car

S

I might have a bash with a 32gb SD card i've got...

Felon wrote:I might have a bash with a 32gb SD card i've got...

Worth a try, but when searching through the file structure for songs I found the loading times really, really slow when using an 8gb SD card :-(

Overall opinion indicates that USB sticks work a lot faster than SD cards inserted in to the head unit. Assuming you do have the Media-in usb cable then go a for the USB stick.