Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:01:47 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Follow Up on Yesterdays Post About New Stereo
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I use a thumb drive and an iPod on my headunit. The thumbrive in the
usb port and the iPod in the aux in port (my ipod too old to be
controlled by the headunit via usb, it's an old ipod mini). My son
seldom lets me borrow his ipod touch which is controllable via the
headunit. The headunit has aux in ports on the rear of the unit which
I thought was a disadvantage compared to my old one which had a port
on face plate. But in actual use it works better.
I have led a short usb cable and an aux in mini din cable from rear of
unit up through a hole in the ashtray. I can have the thumbdrive
hidden in the ashtray and lead the aux in cable to the ipod (which is
on a belkin stalk that fits in the cig lighter). Or I put my little
ipod shuffle in the ashtray too if I don't want the stalk. Either way
cord tangle and dangling is controllable.
I agree that navigating the folder structure on a thumb drive is a
pain on the headunit display.
Oh, and I have a wireless remote, really great for camping.
alistair
On 17-Jun-11, at 8:38 AM, Loren Busch wrote:
> First, there has been a bunch of good info added to my original
> thread about
> 'Good experience with Crutchfield', thanks.
> Second, I mentioned in a later post in the thread that I might
> exchange my
> $70 unit for a $90 unit that had USB input so I could keep my MP3
> player
> charged while driving (the Aux cable doesn't charge the unit). Well,
> yesterday I tested my little MP3 player and it goes well over eight
> hours
> before it might need charging (and I have a 12v USB charger for it)
> so that
> shouldn't be a problem. If ordering again I'd make the change but
> not worth
> the effort of reordering and returning. And that leads to another
> observation.
> Several people have mentioned that with the USB port on the front of
> their
> head unit they can use a thumb drive and have very large music
> libraries at
> their command. But I have to ask this question: How do you manage
> to pick
> and choose what music to play while on the road? I have to assume
> all the
> information is displayed on the front of the receiver, not really
> readable
> or usable when driving. What I've done is put the MP3 player on a
> six foot
> cord. I can pick it up and select music while driving. But more
> important
> to me that long cord reaches back into the living space when parked
> so that
> I have full control over what's playing. And the little remote for
> the head
> unit give me the ability to turn the whole thing on and off from the
> rear.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the ability to have gazzillions
> or
> hours of music on a little thumb drive. But that setup just doesn't
> look
> like it would work for me.
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