Nissan Qashqai (2017) audio systems

Matt_Hirst · 2025-02-20T15:25:55+0000

My last car was an 2013 Audi A6 and all of my music was stored on an SD card (it has 2 SD card slots one for satnav one for music), really easy to navigate through to change tracks etc.

We've just swapped to a 2017 Nissan Qashqai and I must be a bit thick as i've managed to pair my phone to the car but cannot get my head around how to play music, can it navigate through tracks etc, if not what can I do to add a second SD card or a way to be able to select and play tracks? Is it a complete swap out of the head unit or?

Very confused.

Matt

GravyMonster · 2025-02-20T15:37:29+0000

If the phone is connected via BT then you just play music on your phone and it'll be piped through to the car's speakers.

Matt_Hirst · 2025-02-20T15:47:04+0000

ah so it's basic control via phone, hhhmmm may have to look at upgraded head units then.

Thanks.

Matt

nlel1975 · 2025-02-20T15:49:11+0000

Matt_Hirst said:
ah so it's basic control via phone, hhhmmm may have to look at upgraded head units then.

Yeah Qashqai didn’t get Android Auto until 2019.

scrivz69 · 2025-02-20T15:50:20+0000

Just use a usb stick for music, thats what I do with my Juke.

Matt_Hirst · 2025-02-20T17:36:53+0000

scrivz69 said:
Just use a usb stick for music, thats what I do with my Juke.

Ah ok, will give that a try.

Matt_Hirst · 2025-02-21T12:54:08+0000

Tried vaious USB sticks, some it recognises some it doesn't - all formatted to Fat32 - message is no music fioles found - all music is in folders and in mp3 format...guess I'll be sticking to listening to the radio.

scrivz69 · 2025-02-21T12:55:55+0000

Thats odd mine works fine, all mine are mp3 I just go to audio and the usb usually shows up tap on it and pick what I want to listen to. Does it not appear when you press the Aux button?

I just found this video skip to 14 mins to see the usb stuff.

Seems earlier media systems don't like any USB sticks over 32Gb for some reason.

Matt_Hirst · 2025-02-21T14:18:53+0000

scrivz69 said:
Thats odd mine works fine, all mine are mp3 I just go to audio and the usb usually shows up tap on it and pick what I want to listen to. Does it not appear when you press the Aux button?

I just found this video skip to 14 mins to see the usb stuff.

Seems earlier media systems don't like any USB sticks over 32Gb for some reason.

Thanks, No just says no music files it's frustrating to say the least. Will try some more usb's.

scrivz69 · 2025-02-21T14:21:00+0000

All very odd mate.