Jul 18, 2026
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I brought a new Raval with the Sennheiser sound system a couple weeks ago. I own a 2018 Seat Ateca Xcellence with the premium sound system.

Currently I have about 13,300 tracks in my music collection. I've organized them in the file system as genre->artist->album the copied them to flash drives/sd cards.

I'm experiencing glitches when trying to listen to my collection on my new Raval. The biggest issue I'm experiencing is that about half the time I when I park the car and then I return to it later I find that it's forgotten what I was listening to. The media player also doesn't move onto the next album when the last track in the current album is completed. When that happens sometimes it goes back to the first track but ocassionally it will randomly jump to the middle of a different track. It seems to be more oriented towards playing single tracks than functioning as a full featured media player.

I have tried listening to my collection on Android Auto but when I do so the sound clarity suffers. I would buy a better media player on the Cupra Store if one were available but there is nothing. I don't mind spending a little more. I don't like not being offered the opportunity to do so. However I'm not onboard for subscribing to a streaming service.

I've reached out to Cupra about this. So far I've not received a reply. I noted that based on what I've found elsewhere online it looks like similar issues have been experienced by other users on other Cupra products and apparently their issues have not been addressed.

What's I find even more annoying is that my 2018 Seat Ateca Xcellence plays the same file system glitch free. My new car fails to do what my nine year old car has no problems with.

I would think that a product that targets the youth market would treat providing a premium musical experience as a priority.
 
We had a bit of a conversation about it over here :


Long start up time has been reported for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS) which is the new Vag EV standard (2026 and after), Raval being the first Cupra to have it. On the ID dot models all the generic new models. Upto 60 seconds is suppose to be the wait time for restart. Software solution was reported on that thread but that's for the developer of the system, not end user. It shortens the wait for the music to restart. Forgetting where you were I didn't find like @emarsh7 but something to look out for. Might be nested directory trees or something like mib2 had limits. If you went over the limits it wouldn't tell you, just wouldn't play.

I did do an information thread on AAOS since this is all new and coming to ICE as well. The title isn't where the thread ended... beyond cartography but my initial interest.


It's really like having an Android system in the car, which it is but the Vag system is a closed system, using a curated Harman app library but is also your cars infotainment system which also offers integration to your car phone whether Android or iOS. Some integrate into the Google Playstore like Android TV or Play Games. This one is like your Amazon store, Android but outside Google store... if you follow to that. Links to what's in the Harman app library in @emarsh7 's one is shown on that link. I asked since the demo car in the UK had an empty store.
 
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