Hi all,

Just bought an 06 Grande Punto 1.9 diesel Eleganza, love the car , but....

Its a Mar/Apr 06 model, which going by the fact that it does not have the Windows symbol on the bottom left steering wheel button is installed with the Bluetooth Convergence rather than Blue & Me. Works fine for calls from my phone a Sony Ericsson W850i.

I have read and read and read articles on this but have been unable to ascertain....

Does it support the playback of MP3 from MP3 players via the single USB connection in the glovebox?

I know the answer is probably somewhere on the internet but I've not found it and would like a concise answer.

I occasionally get "No source available" on the head unit which would imply that there is some alternative source other than CD or the Tuner.

I have a Creative Zen touch but this is not recognised when I connect it to the USB port.

Thanks in advance.

Your system should play MP3's yes, I believe the Eleganza head unit supports the CD MP3 function, so I can't say why the Blue&Me system wouldn't do so.

The 'No Source Available' is normally displayed when there is something plugged in to the USB port but the hardware/files are not recognised - however maybe on older models it displays 'No Source' all the time when nothing is plugged in (I have a 58 plate...)

Not too clued up on Zen's, but if you can - turn on the 'file' mode, 'drive' mode, whatever it may be called... as if the MP3 player acts as a portable hard drive - this should then allow Blue&Me to read directly as if it were a USB stick or similar.

Thanks for that.

My Zen is auomatically detected as a hard drive when attached to my PC, but nothing when plugged into the car, could be a power issue when running of the battery as the USB does NOT charge the MP3 player.

Will try with my USB pendrive tonight and see if that works.

Will be somewhat disappointed if it doesn't work.

I forgot to mention, the drive(s) will need to be formatted as FAT32, I'm not sure how easy this will be on a ZEN, or maybe they even come factory default as FAT32, you'd need to check. Any other format will not be recognised by Blue & Me, so make sure you format your USB drive to FAT32 before you copy all of your music to it.

Let me know how it goes

No joy as yet. Copied a couple of album folders onto the key.

Do the MP3s have to be in the root folder?

I didn't have any "No Source available" messages, so it looks like it has recognised something.

Scrag_Meister said:

No joy as yet. Copied a couple of album folders onto the key.
Do the MP3s have to be in the root folder?

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Mp3's can be stored anywhere on the usb stick and Blue&Me will recognise, so for example;
root\music\punto\mp3\test\

Scrag_Meister said:

I didn't have any "No Source available" messages, so it looks like it has recognised something.

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On the steering wheel controls, press the menu button and scroll to media player, from here you should be able to select 'Play Anything'. Sometimes when I plug my USB stick in I have to open the media player this way before the music starts playing...

Let me know if that works or not!

Hello, a newbee here.
Like the OP, I have a 1.9 Eleganza on an 06 plate and have the same problem. I get 'no source recognised' but the stick is glowing as it will in a PC.
Is there a software update?. I can't get anywhere with a menu / source buttons. The manual only mentions MP3 CD, and nothing about the USB port.
The files I have are mp3 ripped from my CD's, on a PC they play with windows media player and I can't see why they are not recognised. Pressing source just gets FM/MW/LW or CD. Any thoughts please?
(main dealer directed me here!)
Thanks