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Originally Posted by khollister
Clearly a USB drive is no substitute for an iPod as far as organizing large music collections. While I will still use the iPod Classic on long trips, I was trying to get a USB flash drive set up to leave in the car for shorter trips around town.
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I don't own an iPod. But I can pretty much guarantee that the way this thing will work is if you plug your iPod into the USB then the radio is simply going to use the iPod like a USB storage device (looking at the files and folders on the drive) Which means it won't work any different than a USB flash drive. Of course, you could always plug the audio into the auxiliary input of the radio and control the songs with the iPod but that is a royal pain in the butt and will likely lead to an accident.
I'm pretty happy with the USB thing overall. There are some tricks I've recently learned to help me find the songs I want. For example, push the center button inside the volume control once and you can turn the knob left and right to quickly scroll through folders, push it a second time and you can scroll through songs. Push it a 3rd time and it starts playing whatever you selected.
Like I said, the random play function doesn't seem to work very well on my USB drive, but other than that it is great. I have owned the car for a month now and have still never even tried putting a CD in the dash and probably never will.
