SQive

The AMI & connector are in the glove box.
Every piece of music I have fits on half of a 32-Gig SD card.

ex-quattro PETE

Does that include a usb connector?

Ive got about 400 gb of audio, mostly high bit rate mp3.

cnachris

Yes. You can get the cable that is a USB on one end and connects to MMI connector (in the glove box) on the other.

It is an Audi part number not sure which one. There are several others in addition to the one that comes with the Q5. Look in your manual or other threads herein. Try this link

Audi Wholesale OEM Parts | Audi Genuine Accessories | Audi Branded Collection | Audi USA Parts Online Catalog estore

Just bought the one with the red collar (4F0.051.510 R) so we could see cover art and more using the interface with our (few years old) iPod Touch. Our local dealer had it in stock.

Redd

If you've ever read the spec sheet on a hard drive, even the new ones with "self-parking" heads that retract when there is shock, are not meant to be used while in motion! They are "portable" but only designed to be spinning while not being bounced around. So using an SSD is very much a better way to go, as the hard drive will start taking data errors the first time you hit a bump. Even with a Q5 suspension.

I use a 128GB flash drive. Bought a $8? cable on eBay and then a $4 USB adapter to make the cable into a "socket" for the USB drive. There's probably a one-piece cable out there, too.

ex-quattro PETE

Or you could just buy a 128GB SD card and not have to worry about any cables/adapters.

SQive

I read somewhere that 32GB is the max for an SD card with AMI.
Anyone care to disprove that?

spijun

MMI 3G: the max size for SD media can be 32GB.

Here:
http://audiusanews.com/audi/assets/s...tem%5B1%5D.pdf

ex-quattro PETE

Yes, but that's just a spec on a paper. People have reported here that 64GB SDXC cards work fine, so possibly 128GB cards would work, too.

spijun

I have tried 5 different cards of 64GB (SanDisk, Samsung, Transcend...Pro, Ultra, Extreme version) in Q5 and A4, and none of them works

If you find out which card works let me know

ex-quattro PETE

spijun, what year is your Q5?

Also, whatever card you get, make sure you format it as FAT32 first.