Audi iPod adapter
Discussion
Just back from taking my insurance docs down to the dealers - collect RS4 on Friday - they've just installed the Audi iPod gizmo - leaves a connector in the glove box. It connects to the back of the Nav system in place of the CD changer.
Only problem - you don't seem to get iPod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any iPod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the iPod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the iPod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Only problem - you don't seem to get iPod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any iPod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the iPod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the iPod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Hi there, first post and all that..
Great car by the way! As much as I would dearly love an RS4 I find myself in a A6 Avant for now (pesky kids and dog).
Looking at getting the ipod hooked up and I think that the head units are the same in both cars (I've got the old shape A6 with the colour screen sat nav unit).
Basically how are you getting on after your initial concerns? Local dealer is happy to take 200 notes and assures me that all the ipod controls will be "as per your ipod", but cannot show me any examples. There's thousands of tunes on the thing - sounds a bit naff to just have 1-25 tracks and no artists or ability to move around the menu - may as well stick with the 6 disc cartridge..
Is it worth it? Anyone else share their wisdom?
Cheers, Ross
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Just back from taking my insurance docs down to the dealers - collect RS4 on Friday - they've just installed the Audi ipod gizmo - leaves a connector in the glove box. It connects to the back of the Nav system in place of the CD changer.
Only problem - you don't seem to get ipod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any ipod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the ipod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the ipod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Great car by the way! As much as I would dearly love an RS4 I find myself in a A6 Avant for now (pesky kids and dog).
Looking at getting the ipod hooked up and I think that the head units are the same in both cars (I've got the old shape A6 with the colour screen sat nav unit).
Basically how are you getting on after your initial concerns? Local dealer is happy to take 200 notes and assures me that all the ipod controls will be "as per your ipod", but cannot show me any examples. There's thousands of tunes on the thing - sounds a bit naff to just have 1-25 tracks and no artists or ability to move around the menu - may as well stick with the 6 disc cartridge..
Is it worth it? Anyone else share their wisdom?
Cheers, Ross
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Just back from taking my insurance docs down to the dealers - collect RS4 on Friday - they've just installed the Audi ipod gizmo - leaves a connector in the glove box. It connects to the back of the Nav system in place of the CD changer.
Only problem - you don't seem to get ipod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any ipod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the ipod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the ipod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Hi Ross,
Well, I'm not using it at all. Sums up how I'm getting on!!
I decided to go down the SD memory card route instead. The RS4 has a couple of SD card slots, and with 2 x 2GB cards (4GB cards coming very soon - you can get them from Hong Kong, but they're not supposed to be reliable), you can cram quite a lot of MP3 stuff on them.
The cards work perfectly - artist and track listing info is perfect.
If I had the choice again, knowing what I know now, I would not waste the £200 on the iPod connector at all, and spend the money on SD cards instead. It's a DVD sat nav unit on the RS4, but I'm not sure if all the units have the SD card slots. If yours does, then I would definately advise going down this route instead.
Cheers, Mark
Well, I'm not using it at all. Sums up how I'm getting on!!
I decided to go down the SD memory card route instead. The RS4 has a couple of SD card slots, and with 2 x 2GB cards (4GB cards coming very soon - you can get them from Hong Kong, but they're not supposed to be reliable), you can cram quite a lot of MP3 stuff on them.
The cards work perfectly - artist and track listing info is perfect.
If I had the choice again, knowing what I know now, I would not waste the £200 on the iPod connector at all, and spend the money on SD cards instead. It's a DVD sat nav unit on the RS4, but I'm not sure if all the units have the SD card slots. If yours does, then I would definately advise going down this route instead.
Cheers, Mark
Hi Mark,
That is disappointing about the ipod connect - shame. My A6 has the sat nav screen in the dash which flips down at the touch of a button to show the 2 SD ports behind. I'll just get a couple of SD Cards instead.
On a more PH-type note how's RS4 ownership? I've seen a couple around now and they are a truely special car. I got into an A6 Avant due to the commitments of family life - had to whack up the mortgage, sell the 330ci and due to the budget cut backs even let the wife pursuade me to get a 1.9 tdi! (the shame of it...)
It's a nice car but it will have to go within 6 months or so. I beleive that my local dealer is cottoning on to this - took the A6 for its first service this morning and I find myself with the dealer principles S4 Avant demo car on my drive until tomorrow morning - now that's a bit more like it!
I am tempted. £33k looks like it will get me into a new shape V8 version. I'm sitting here now with a calculator trying to put a plan together that Mrs Ross will turn a blind eye to. And waiting for the roads to clear so I head out later and see what it can really do..
That is disappointing about the ipod connect - shame. My A6 has the sat nav screen in the dash which flips down at the touch of a button to show the 2 SD ports behind. I'll just get a couple of SD Cards instead.
On a more PH-type note how's RS4 ownership? I've seen a couple around now and they are a truely special car. I got into an A6 Avant due to the commitments of family life - had to whack up the mortgage, sell the 330ci and due to the budget cut backs even let the wife pursuade me to get a 1.9 tdi! (the shame of it...)
It's a nice car but it will have to go within 6 months or so. I beleive that my local dealer is cottoning on to this - took the A6 for its first service this morning and I find myself with the dealer principles S4 Avant demo car on my drive until tomorrow morning - now that's a bit more like it!
I am tempted. £33k looks like it will get me into a new shape V8 version. I'm sitting here now with a calculator trying to put a plan together that Mrs Ross will turn a blind eye to. And waiting for the roads to clear so I head out later and see what it can really do..
bradders said:
Just back from taking my insurance docs down to the dealers - collect RS4 on Friday - they've just installed the Audi iPod gizmo - leaves a connector in the glove box. It connects to the back of the Nav system in place of the CD changer.
Only problem - you don't seem to get iPod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any iPod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the iPod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the iPod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Only problem - you don't seem to get iPod specific controls. Still allows you to select CD's (1-6), although it makes no difference which "CD" you select. Track selection only shows tracks 1-25. There does not seem to be any iPod display, or the ability to read artists, tracks etc.
Even more puzzling - when the iPod is connected, it disables the click wheel on the iPod, meaning that you cannot manually select artist/track etc.
Anyone have any experience of this, and know how to get it working properly? Collecting the car Friday, and would very much like some tunes to get me through the run-in!
Cheers, Mark
Hi.
I work for an Audi dealer.
The way it works is:
The first 5 playlists on your i-pod are "discs" 1 - 5.
ALL of the other tracks on your i-pod are on "CD 6".
That is how it operates.
The dealer will be able to print you an instruction sheet from "Audi Desktop" if you ask him
Cheers,
Andrew Dryburgh.
drybeer said:
Hi.
I work for an Audi dealer.
The way it works is:
The first 5 playlists on your i-pod are "discs" 1 - 5.
ALL of the other tracks on your i-pod are on "CD 6".
That is how it operates.
The dealer will be able to print you an instruction sheet from "Audi Desktop" if you ask him
Cheers,
Andrew Dryburgh.
Hi Andrew
thanks for this, was thinking about getting the adaptor but none of the 3 audi dealers i visited knew anything about how it worked. All they could do was quote the price !!!
the magical interweb yields notthing so far Hi Guys,
I too have the SD Card option in the RS4, but have found something very odd - have two 2Gb cards (one for me and one with girlie stuff for the better half!). Bought a third one and loaded 300 plus MP3's using Musicmatch, but the car refuses to bring up the tunes even though it recognizes there's a new card there (sees the name and all). But here's the really odd part - it brings up the tunes from the OLD card that's now sitting in the arm rest (spooky kind of bluetooth mindreading?)- if I remove both the original cards and put the new one in, same again - though it seems to prefer the girlie list rather than Joe Satriani and co!!
I've scoured the manual and there is no reference to how to make the unit forget old cards (I know from an american site that the unit actually loads the files into memory, hence the 400 song limit etc - though the fact that someone writing here is using 4Gb cards may mean the limit is not real - comments anyone?)
It's very frustrating - mind you I've only had the beast for a couple of weeks so the sound of the engine on song is a bit of a distraction from the sound system.
Any ideas?
Also is there any way to tell the CD system the names of tracks (you could input them on my old Merc).
Happy Driving!!
Johnnymag
I too have the SD Card option in the RS4, but have found something very odd - have two 2Gb cards (one for me and one with girlie stuff for the better half!). Bought a third one and loaded 300 plus MP3's using Musicmatch, but the car refuses to bring up the tunes even though it recognizes there's a new card there (sees the name and all). But here's the really odd part - it brings up the tunes from the OLD card that's now sitting in the arm rest (spooky kind of bluetooth mindreading?)- if I remove both the original cards and put the new one in, same again - though it seems to prefer the girlie list rather than Joe Satriani and co!!
I've scoured the manual and there is no reference to how to make the unit forget old cards (I know from an american site that the unit actually loads the files into memory, hence the 400 song limit etc - though the fact that someone writing here is using 4Gb cards may mean the limit is not real - comments anyone?)
It's very frustrating - mind you I've only had the beast for a couple of weeks so the sound of the engine on song is a bit of a distraction from the sound system.
Any ideas?
Also is there any way to tell the CD system the names of tracks (you could input them on my old Merc).
Happy Driving!!
Johnnymag
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