Astropup

After dealing with my 2017 Honda, I was pretty impressed when I set up the Q7 for songs on the SD card.

Honda - No directories - must dump everything in the root
Honda - FAT32 only
Honda - 128 kbps only

Q7 - Artist/Album/Song - the default and the way mine were on my PC already
Q7 - ExFAT worked just fine
Q7 - My 256 mbps songs worked great.

Bottom line was I got 3000 songs on my system and had to do nothing besides copy the exiting structure from my PC to a freshly ExFat formatted SD card! Woot!

PARealtor

how large an SD card will work? do you have all 3000 songs on one card?

Astropup

I used a 64 Gig card (surplus from my DSLR and our last vacation) but there were only 23 Gig of files on it - so all on the one card. Dunno how much bigger a card it will take but I bet someone else does. I used slot #1 but it prolly does not matter. What surprised me more is that it accepted ExFat.

htd4555

I use a 128 GB microSD and fill it to capacity with 320 kbps mp3 songs. The car has not skipped a beat.

Dasaint

I have a 256GB in there. Will be a while before I fill that thing up

Brimstone

I use a 256 GB, mostly flac files, (some 320 or 256 kbps mp3s).

There's a stupid bug where when you start the car up it just says "loading..." until the song changes, I think its only when using playlists (maybe fixed in newer mmi version)

Astropup

I noted something like that with Android Auto and Spotify (not just on the Audi so prolly a Spotify/AA thing). It will not play because there "is no internet connection" when there a good connection and everything else works. Most of the time advancing fixes that too.

hayde_bre

Astropup, it's not just Spotify I get that with other streaming services too, Android Auto is going through a lot of issues recently, it was working perfectly fine until they completely messed with it and now even 30 minute commute I see frozen or crashing AA screens or bottom menu just blacking out.

As for SD card, where are you guys getting your music from? Ripping your own CDs? I just realized I had my 128GB USB nano drive in my glove box, but my music collection is from last decade. I have n't been downloading any music or buying CDs to rip, and anything I buy is "AutoRip" from Amazon so it's sourced by streaming services.

Astropup

Mostly just old stuff for me too on the card. Newer stuff is all Spotify for me, with just a very few Amazon purchases. Card is nice if I don't want to bother with the phone for some reason.

Brimstone

I just rip CDs (and I still buy them when I can). CDs sound better than digital music, its subtle but you can hear it back to back. (sometimes from supposedly lossless sources, but not always, I suspect in some cases there might be different DAC involved with a CD vs. decoding. but I don't know - I don't think I can hear the difference in my home theater with my PC but in the Q7 I could).

Does it still put a 2 second pause between tracks? That's annoying too if you're listening to an album where the tracks segue together.