Using USB stick to play MP3s in 2021 RS7?
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Using USB stick to play MP3s in 2021 RS7?
Hi All,
My 2019 Audi RS5 can play MP3s from SD cards. I'm considering getting a 2021 RS7 which does not have SD card slots let alone a CD player. My question is:
Can I plug a USB stick into a USB port in a 2021 RS7 and play MP3s from it? My non-Audi other car can.
TIA
My 2019 Audi RS5 can play MP3s from SD cards. I'm considering getting a 2021 RS7 which does not have SD card slots let alone a CD player. My question is:
Can I plug a USB stick into a USB port in a 2021 RS7 and play MP3s from it? My non-Audi other car can.
TIA
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I use an IPOD Touch plugged into the USB-C port and it works perfect. Charges when the ignition is on and turns off and on automatically. It’ll show “unknown” on the MMI and/or the virtual cockpit when the IPhone connects to CarPlay but a simple press of the music icon on the MMI clears it and it plays as usual.
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Bought a new 2023 Audi Saturday and what I learned through trying is: yes, you can play MP3s from a USB stick on the Audis w/o SD card slots/CD players/hard disks. But there's a catch.
The catch is all the songs have to be at the top level on the USB stick. Audis w/o CD card slots/hard disks/CD players can't see, let alone play, anything that's in a USB stick folder. If you've got folders on the stick for each artist and the songs are in those folders, the Audi won't see the folders nor be able to play the songs in them. Normally this isn't a problem except if you've got multiple versions of the same song (live and studio for example ) you can only have one version on the top level of the stick because Windows says "a file by that name already exists, do you want to replace it?" I had gotten around this by creating a folders for each artist and then a sub-folder for each album by that artist then putting the songs from each album in its album subfolder. Doing this my 2019 Audi could read/play everything.
A step backwards for the newer cars.
The catch is all the songs have to be at the top level on the USB stick. Audis w/o CD card slots/hard disks/CD players can't see, let alone play, anything that's in a USB stick folder. If you've got folders on the stick for each artist and the songs are in those folders, the Audi won't see the folders nor be able to play the songs in them. Normally this isn't a problem except if you've got multiple versions of the same song (live and studio for example ) you can only have one version on the top level of the stick because Windows says "a file by that name already exists, do you want to replace it?" I had gotten around this by creating a folders for each artist and then a sub-folder for each album by that artist then putting the songs from each album in its album subfolder. Doing this my 2019 Audi could read/play everything.
A step backwards for the newer cars.
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