Best iPod adapter/head unit
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i have an after market head unit which has an auxillary out. i ran a wire through a tiny hole drilled into the bottom of my cup holder, so the ipod sits in the cup holder and plays right through the stereo!
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I was looking into this with the Alpine decks, but some of them are limited to how long a playlist can be to display on the deck... Is that true of all Alpines, or just some models? The wording on the website was massively vague..
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I've been hemming and hawing about this for the past month. I originally was going to get the neo ion, and stick with the stock HU for a while. But neo was really dragging their feet. After 2 weeks, the thing was still back ordered. Not having the ipod in the car is killing me, so I just bit the bullet and bought a new alpine HU and ipod controller.
There are 2 big complaints that people seem to have w/ the ipod interface. 1--you are limited to displaying song/track info to the first 255 songs in a playlist. So, if you have really long playlists, then you will see just track number after song 255 plays. 2--scrolling through massive lists of albums/artists/genres takes forever. There's no intelligent scrolling, so you have to push a button each time to go to the next item in the list.
Considering how I typically use the ipod in the car, i dont think these are big worries for me. I tend to work almost exclusively from playlists, which usually arent' beyond 50 or 60 songs.
Anyways, the neo costs $200. I was able to pick up the alpine HU and ipod interface combined as a special on crutchfield for $329. I think that's a way better deal. And since I plan on upgrading the other audio components eventually, this makes a whole lot more sense.
There are 2 big complaints that people seem to have w/ the ipod interface. 1--you are limited to displaying song/track info to the first 255 songs in a playlist. So, if you have really long playlists, then you will see just track number after song 255 plays. 2--scrolling through massive lists of albums/artists/genres takes forever. There's no intelligent scrolling, so you have to push a button each time to go to the next item in the list.
Considering how I typically use the ipod in the car, i dont think these are big worries for me. I tend to work almost exclusively from playlists, which usually arent' beyond 50 or 60 songs.
Anyways, the neo costs $200. I was able to pick up the alpine HU and ipod interface combined as a special on crutchfield for $329. I think that's a way better deal. And since I plan on upgrading the other audio components eventually, this makes a whole lot more sense.
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