Hi there,

My first posting so go easy on me! I’ve read with a lot of interest the various posts about how to improve the performance of the Bolero SD card media player. After 6 months of happy ownership of my new Octavia I finally got fed up with the performance of the media player. I have a Bytestor 16GB Class 4 SDHC card, loaded about ¾ full with files in nested directories, i.e. “Artist†directories in the root with “Album†subdirectories beneath. It worked fine, but as everyone else has said, it’s agonizingly slow starting up and navigating between directories. So yesterday I decided I’d try and follow some of the advice about how to format the card. With a little help from the bolero_sd_organizer programme I now have a 9-deep directory structure, beneath which I have the same “Artist†and “Album†nested directories, with a small mp3 file and a load of playlists in the root. However something very strange has happened which makes me think it’s not going to work. I was happily playing an “album†playlist when, 7 tracks into the album, the player froze at the start of a new track having just gotten as far as loading the ID3 tags. No amount of ejecting and reinserting the card or powering off the head unit would make it load the card again – it just sat there with the “please wait†message forever. I thought I’d manage to break my head unit somehow. However I removed all the files off the card, put one mp3 file on it and tried again, hey presto it worked. So I reloaded all my files as before; it worked again, but jumping to the same track it froze again in exactly the same way. There wouldn't seem to be anything wrong with the playlist itself because it plays back fine from the card inserted into my PC via Windows Media Player. Has anyone experienced this before and any idea how I can stop it happening?

Thanks in anticipation

Is there anything unusual about this MP3 track? unusual characters in it's name / MP3 tag? I had a unicode character in one of my MP3 names and it only showed a load of square blocks for the name, artist and album - even though it was just the title that had unusual characters in it.

Is there anything unusual about this MP3 track? unusual characters in it's name / MP3 tag? I had a unicode character in one of my MP3 names and it only showed a load of square blocks for the name, artist and album - even though it was just the title that had unusual characters in it.

No, I wondered that but if anything it's less unusual than the tracks immediately preceding it on the album

You might like to get down to your friendly Skoda dealer and ask them to update the firmware.

The latest version fixes the problem with the slow access speed.

For details see this post: http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/151637-speeding-up-bolero-sd-possible-solution/page__view__findpost__p__2083930

You might like to get down to your friendly Skoda dealer and ask them to update the firmware.

The latest version fixes the problem with the slow access speed.

For details see this post: http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/151637-speeding-up-bolero-sd-possible-solution/page__view__findpost__p__2083930

Ah, excellent. I'd been on the lookout for mention of a firmware update and missed that. For the meantime I'm back to the tried and trusted very slow way. Pity the mix function still won't work but that's not a great loss for me.