Need A Little Help with USB Audio

[wstander]

Originally Posted by CobaltDragon

I actually just sorted the usb drive directly - I don't have any hard drives using FAT/FAT32 anymore - they are all NTFS.

Same here...NTFS..


Have to try it this weekend.....thank

[AlbertW]

Originally Posted by wstander

Just to clarify: Use this on the harddrive to sort the music first, then make the transfer to the USB? (After saving the backup, of course )

No! don't use it on the hardrive, copy to the USB stick. Then use it on the stick

[wstander]

Originally Posted by AlbertW

No! don't use it on the hardrive, copy to the USB stick. Then use it on the stick

AHA!! Thanks doubly for the advice!!!!!!!!

[cuwickliffe]

Other than the usual answers we get about making playlists and using smaller iPods, does anyone know how to make the I2 NOT take control of the iPod, yet remained hooked into the system. It would be super if I could keep the system hooked on the car, but control what I'm playing through the iPod. I have a non-nav EX and spinning the radio knob is actually giving me something like a sports-related injury turning, turning, turning just to get past the first few letters of the alphabet.

I don't want to make tons of playlists because then I'll be spinning through playlists. Plus I like hitting stuff every once in a while I've never heard.

I wonder if Honda would provide some sort of software update if they knew people were actually getting muscle injuries from the way the interface works. Just a thought.

[jonniedee]

[quote=cuwickliffe;does anyone know how to make the I2 NOT take control of the iPod, [/QUOTE]

Yep - get an adapter cable and plug it into the mini pin AUX input ...

[cuwickliffe]

OK, lemme clarify that I still want to use the actual USB cable because 1) it's hidden in the center console and 2) it charges the system. Sure the AUX cable is a solution, but it's yet another wire hanging out there and it becomes two if you need to charge the iPod as well. So my question refined if "Does anyone know how to keep the I2 from commandeering the iPod when plugged into the USB slot?"

[jpleong]

This isn't as helpful as I wish I could be but here is the pin out for the iPod connector itself: http://www.qables.com/shop/images/pdf/ipodpinout.pdf

You'll need to find a cable that only connects pins 1-4 and 18.

I'm on the lookout for such a cable for you...

JP

[Cassius]

Does the random function only play random songs over the entire usb drive? I tried it on a trip and I couldn't get it to play randomly just in 1 folder. And it would also keep going back to the same songs.

[CobaltDragon]

Originally Posted by Cassius

Does the random function only play random songs over the entire usb drive? I tried it on a trip and I couldn't get it to play randomly just in 1 folder. And it would also keep going back to the same songs.

If you press the Random button 3 times it cycles from RDM (all songs all folders randomly, F-RDM (songs in one selected folder random), and off (normal linear play).

[tylerdave]

I ran into some problems with the other solutions posted here so I wrote up some directions for correcting the sort order that will work on any version of Windows and with FAT16 or 32 drives:

Fixing the Honda Insight USB MP3 Sort Order