Playlist

[montravia]

I've seen mention of playlists on GT's, but suspect that they're later than my 2008 gal..... no blueteeth or USB.

I've a CD with combined tracks and playlists (in windows format), and the tracks have been successfully loaded into the jukebox.

Only the tracks appear, no playlists.

Do the early headunits support playlists, and can they be loaded: what format, Window or Apple?

 

[CatmanV2]

I've seen mention of playlists on GT's, but suspect that they're later than my 2008 gal..... no blueteeth or USB.

I've a CD with combined tracks and playlists (in windows format), and the tracks have been successfully loaded into the jukebox.

Only the tracks appear, no playlists.

Do the early headunits support playlists, and can they be loaded: what format, Window or Apple?

You need to create the playlist on the unit if memory serves. Going to be a bit laborious I suspect.

C

 

[montravia]

That figures.
Thanks Catman

 

[CatmanV2]

We might be able to reverse engineer it at some point....
C

 

[montravia]

We might be able to reverse engineer it at some point....
C

That's tantalising. Do tell.

We all consider the Maser infotainment system to be quite cranky, just got the wife a BMW X1 (spit, hagh) and it's the worst functionality and ergonomics I've encountered for a long time with the controls down by the central armrest and a singularly linear menu system.

My crappy little FIAT 500 knocks spots off them both, blessed flicky little zooom-about.

 

[CatmanV2]

Well we've got the image and replacement discs thing sorted. If someone puts a playlist on a disc from which we take an image, pretty sure we can find it and see what format it's in. Probably something really basic like a text file. Then you could just write your own. Of course, there may be no way to get it uploaded onto the disc once it's back in the NIT but that's a different issue

Best upgrade appears to be an SSD to replace the original hardware. Should be faster, and give more space for storage. We (I) are just trying to ascertain if an image from Car A can be used to replace a failed drive on Car B. But I've been ****.

C

 

[azapa]

you can certainly take a low level image of any hard disk and move that image to another machine, the machine won't even know the difference. There are some linux programs (DD i think) that will do that copy. The thing I seem to remember is that the radio is hard coded to the car/keycard etc. Where is the hard-disk located?

 

[CatmanV2]

you can certainly take a low level image of any hard disk and move that image to another machine, the machine won't even know the difference. There are some linux programs (DD i think) that will do that copy. The thing I seem to remember is that the radio is hard coded to the car/keycard etc. Where is the hard-disk located?

In the NIT. We've got the image all made, but it's not clear if it's coded to the NIT. That's what I need to test with the hard disk sitting on my kitchen counter. Phil's running an SSD in his now, for example, but that was cloned from his spinning disc

C

 

[montravia]

Thanks, Cat. I'm sure that I'll have to replace the drive sometime, had the dreaded brownout screen last summer, but corrected itself.

You are absolutely right, me ode mate. Constructing the playlists is astonishingly tedious.

I should rwdc the infotainment book really. The operation of the various menu obfuscated by use of odd key presses to activate subselelctions.

Took me ages to finf out to halt the playing the of a playlist which in the end was driving me mad. Purely came acrossit by chance, pressed tge right hand button, and asked if i wanted it to stop. Who would have figured that? And Lo! and Behold! up came the list of playlists which were otherwise hidden

Strange demented system. George 3 was friendlier than this

 

[CatmanV2]

Strange demented system. George 3 was friendlier than this

To be fair, HAL was friendlier than this

C

 

[montravia]

You're older than I thought if you know George 3.