imdakine1

I'm headed on a road trip from Santa Cruz to Huntington Beach in a few hours and was trying to figure out if I could connect my iPhone 6 via Bluetooth to play on the Audi MMI?

The car is a 2014 Audi Q5 TDI. I was thinking about streaming music from iTunes, Amazon prime music player, pandora etc... Thoughts?

I do have an old iPod touch sitting in the glovebox which I know can be used to play music stored on it etc...

As the car still has free 3G I was trying to figure out other potential setup ideas either using an old iPhone such as a 4 or my iPod touch from my glove box or my iPhone 6 via Bluetooth as I don't have the right plug to setup the iPhone 6 with the Audi glovebox plug... --- I also have unlimited data on the iPhone 6 so streaming Amazon prime music or pandora is an option.

Many advice between now and 11am (pacific) would be awesome!

Thanks!

Coolieman1220

They all sound great and sound like they'll work. remember the cars 3g is only 3g so it's pretty slow compared to 4g. I usually bluetooth stream from my phone.

ex-quattro PETE

If sound quality is important at all, I'd avoid bluetooth streaming altogether. Why not just load up some music on an SD card? That should be simple enough.

dcl23

I have my iPhone 6 connected with a USB lightning cable to the center console to charge it and stream Amazon Prime and Pandora very often. I, too, have unlimited data. It doesn't sound as good as my music stored in the Jukebox, but I like to hear other music than the music I own from time to time, and the Bluetooth works great.

imdakine1

I always have issues trying to remember how to setup Bluetooth for streaming music. Any guidance on where in the MMI would be helpful!

Road trip begins on 1 hour!

lawnmore

Could you expand on " simple enough"? What are some options for loading music on an SD card and about how songs per GB. Can you load from iTunes library? Thanks

ex-quattro PETE

Stick an SD card in your computer. Copy music files to it. Done.

Not sure I understand the question. Are you asking how many songs does it take to fill 1 GB of storage space? That totally depends on the songs themselves as well as on the compression/bitrate used to encode the songs. It could be anywhere from 100 to 300 songs.

No idea. I don't use iTunes.

lawnmore

Thanks

snagitseven

Copy the songs from the iTunes Music folder (not from iTunes itself) directly onto an SD card. Use the following folder hierarchy: Artist/Album/Songs. Note that any old Protected AAC song files from a few years ago will not play in the MMI. Officially, the MMI will support up to 32GB cards in a FAT32 formatted card. AAC and MP3 formats will work fine. You can also import songs from the SD cards to your Jukebox which will hold another 20GB of songs.

Also, MP4 videos can be copied to an SD card (and further to the Jukebox) and will play on the MMI screen (see your MMI manual for resolution requirements). Videos and movies cannot be played on the MMI if the car is moving, although if you have VCDS (Vag-Com), VIM (Video in Motion) can be enabled to overcome this restriction.

All of this is covered in your MMI Entertainment/Nav manual (except the VIM mod which is discussed in the AW forums - do a search if interested).

andyjeffries

Just for the OP's benefit, this hierarchy isn't mandatory. I use: "Artist - Album/*" and it works 100% fine.

I rarely have more than two albums by the same artist, and only about 100 albums on there at any one time, so would rather turn the scroll wheel more when scrolling than have to click to go in and out of another folder depth all the time.