If you don't feel comfy doing things on the move put radio on and leave it on. And on the VAG group head units at least, navigating folders, or selecting one of a few favourites radio stations etc is still easier than faffing with cassettes or CDs or tuning.Īll about how distracted you allow yourself to get. Most current systems will play radio far easier than an old system. Kind of agree - but then I recall trying trying to manually tune a radio as you moved from one region to another, or faffing in glove box for a cassette, or changing a CD. You won't be able to control it via the car controls, don't get caught fiddling with the phone while driving. It also tends to order them alphabetically, so if you want them in a particular order, you'll need to prefix with a track number.ģ - plug some sort of transmitter into your phone and then pick it up as a radio station - not sure about the current legality of this in the UK. There were a number of my tracks that weren't appearing on the play list in the car - eventually, the penny dropped that the ones not appearing had very long file names of the sort of format "01 someone and the somethings - long name of track (featuring someone else) (studio version).mp3" and the car could only handle a certain number of characters.
It's a bit time consuming, but if you bought the CDs on Amazon, you can just download the MP3 tracks.īeware of filename lengths. Number of tracks you can get on the card depends on bit rate you ripped them at. Basically, you have to rip your music collection into a digital format (MP3, WAV, etc) and then put that onto a card and plug it in somewhere. My car has an iPod dock in the glove box, but I've never used it, because.Ģ - My car has 2 SD card slots behind the head unit screen, one of which has a load of my MP3 files on it, the other has stuff for the kids, so they don't accidentally end up listening to anything with dodgy language.
If it's a smart phone, this should also give you phone control for calls, possibly also navigation. 1 - depending on connectivity, you can connect a device such as your smart phone/iPod/USB stick/whatever to the car by way of either a cable or Bluetooth, the car head unit will recognise it and you can use the car controls to play the music.