Which SD card in stereo?

[500PLUS]

Which SD card in stereo, I bought a 4GB SD HC card dont know much about SD cards, but screen says the slot is empty, which card should I use?

[Fingers01]

Had the same problem myself and identified that you cannot use SD "HC" they have to be no more than 2GB SD and they have to be formatted to FAT32. Best to use i-tunes to copy over to SD card

[bilko1]

You can use a standard 4gb sd card but they are as rare as hens teeth.

[drybeer]

Yup - "SD" not "SDHC", and can be 1, 2, or 4Gb. But there's a maximum number of files - can anyone remember? - that you must not exceed or it cannot index and play them.

I got some 1Gb and 2Gb ones while PC world had them, but they're getting hard to get a hold of.

Might have to try:

[urlhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/110443[/url]

[andyt]

The unit has a maximum of ~512 files & folders per card. If you rip albums where the tracks are of usual length and at a normal bitrate, then you'll hit this limit before you hit the 2gb limit. However, in my case I listen to lots of audio novels and podcasts, so the file numbers are kept low but a single file can be an hour long. For that I have a bunch of non-HC 4GB cards. They are made by Transcend, are rare and are quite expensive compared to what you'd pay for a 4gb SDHC card.

[philroach]

there seem to be loads on sandisc 2GB SD cards on ebay , about 4 quid a pop , if they r the right ones ?

[drybeer]

They should be fine if they what you say they are.

I use 4Gb Sandisk SDHC cards in my A4 allroad, and they cost about £7 ea at Tesco.

My 2Gb standard SD cards are "Kingston" and were probably about £15 each when I got them but it was a long time ago when I had a B6 S4 Avant again with RNS-E, and the price seems to keep coming down.

[bam_bam]

I bought a handful of Kingston 2Gb cards from Sainsbury's. About 4-5 squid each. They just kick around in my center console.

[500PLUS]

I got a 2GB card formatted to FAT32, copied a few albums from windows...still wont play, says file corrupted....bloody thing

How should I load the data. Never had this problem with cards on other stuff.

[Danrowland]

What is the bitrate of the files (right click / properties in Windows)?
How many files have you copied to the card?
Can you browse the MP3 files at all?

[500PLUS]

Cheers all sorted ages ago....

[micdee]

So what was the sollution then, it might help others with same problems......

[MoRS6+]

So what was the sollution then, it might help others with same problems......

The solution is to use NON-SDHC cards. In other words just standard SD. Only the newer model RNS-E supports SDHC. The older RNS-E in the RS6 Plus only supports standard SD cards.

For example: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-4GB-S ... 0012ZL56A/

There are 2Gb versions about and are more common. In any event the 4Gb may be overkill since the limit is 400 files and 256 file folders per card IIRC. I'm sure Petrol Dave will correct that if it's wrong though!

The irony is that I have never used my SD slots once!! Just love the sound of the engine too much

[micdee]

Well if it was only the issue of High Compression SD cards, then the solution was already mentioned.
But 500plus did say he had the standard SD cards, but still had a problem.
And when it were the number of files on the card, this is still handy to tell so that all know that it comes to two (known) problems.
That it the strength of a forum, mentioning problems, but then afterwards also mentioning the solutions.

[500PLUS]

2 GB cards from Sainsbury, £5 each. Re saved all itune tracks as MPEG, this is the key. Then copied straight to SD card. Only pain is it copies all the track nos in order, ie all track 1 of each album then track 2 etc, so you need to set up files for each album. I had all my music on windows media player anyway so to re load on to itunes took no time...