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At first please find below brief hints:
- If you are not sure how to connect something in context with the camubox, please do not experiment, but call us.
We will be happy to assist you. During the weekend the fastest way of obtaining advice is via email.
- Do not connect the camubox to your computer or any network. Doing so would destroy the network or the
camubox.
- Before hard-wiring the cable in your car, connect the camubox to your radio for test purposes and check whether
the camubox works in combination with your radio. Please perform final installation only after having verified
the above.
- Whenever in the following the term “data medium” is used, an SD, SDHC or MMC card or a USB memory
stick (only camubox-usb and camubox-ia) is referred to. The respective description is always applicable to all of
these storage media.
- The following descriptions of the camubox functions belongs to all camubox models. If a function is not
supported on all models we will indicate this.
The camubox
The camubox is an MP3-player that is very easy to connect via one single cable to a factory-installed radio in
Volkswagen (VW), Skoda, Seat or Audi. The camubox acts like a CD changer, i.e. the radio does not detect that the
music coming from the camubox is not from a CD but is generated from MP3 files. There are three different
models:
camubox-sd MP3 files are saved on an SD, SDHC or MMC card.
camubox-usb MP3 files are saved on an SD, SDHC or MMC card or a USB stick.
camubox-ia
MP3 files are saved on an SD, SDHC or MMC card or a USB stick. Additionally you can connect an
external audio source via the 3,5mm audio stereo jack. For example if you connect a portable
navigation system to the camubox-ia, the camubox will reduce the loundness of the played music
during an announcement.
Storing the MP3 files
The MP3 files have to be saved on a data medium. The data medium has to be formatted using FAT-16 or FAT-32.
Don’t worry, this is the default format used by Windows for formatting such data media. If you have bought a new
data medium, we recommend that you format this data medium first. Preformatting done by the manufacturer is not
always correct.
Since your radio supports a CD changer with up to 6 CDs and can control the CDs in a direct way, the MP3 files on
the data medium for use with the camubox are saved in 6 directories called CD1 to CD6. Please write CD1, and not
1 or “one”. Please do not insert blanks in between either.
If you intend to use the camubox in the C99 mode (described further below), please save the MP3 files in up to 99
directories named CD1 through CD99.
These directories have to be placed into the main (root) directory. The MP3 files then have to be saved in these
directories (CD1…CD6 or CD1…CD99).
Up to 99 tracks can be placed within each CD directory. This in the normal mode totals as many as 594 tracks and
in the C99 mode even a maximum of 9801 tracks! This should be sufficient at any rate.
By the way you may also save other data on the memory card. The camubox only plays files having the extension
.MP3
and located in the directories
CD1…CD6
or
CD1…CD99
. MP3 files in the root directory will not be played.
