I've found the solution , to view he iPod menu on the command screen (dashboard ) in the middle of the speedo, press the phone end button on the steering wheel (while the display is displaying the audio function ) this will enable you to view the ipod menu and select (playlists, albums, artists, .. etc)
iPOD: From the steering wheel-controls, I can call up the playlists, but upon selecting one, the iPod always begins playing the first alphabetically listed song in the complete library.
PCMCIA: I can't get the car to recognize my Sandisk PCMCIA and the voice command is unrecognized. Does the fact that I'm testing it with a 64MB CF card make any difference? (At the least, I want to know it works before I buy a 4-8 GB CF card.)
iPOD: From the steering wheel-controls, I can call up the playlists, but upon selecting one, the iPod always begins playing the first alphabetically listed song in the complete library.
PCMCIA: I can't get the car to recognize my Sandisk PCMCIA and the voice command is unrecognized. Does the fact that I'm testing it with a 64MB CF card make any difference? (At the least, I want to know it works before I buy a 4-8 GB CF card.)
I don't know about the iPod thing as I don't have the interface but the PCMCIA part sounds strange. Do you really mean you are testing with a 64 MB, not a 64 GB card? 64 MB should mean a very old card that could even be too slow for music. I thought Sandisk did not have a 64 GB card yet.
I should have at home a very old 64 MB, even a 32 MB card and I could try that. If the card is not too old/slow, then it could be the MP3 format. Where did you get the titles, are you sure those are MP3, not AAC or windows media?
I've been using different PCMCIA cards of a few gigabytes and all have been fine. Better than playing music from the DVD as you may hear some of the DVD drive noise (not from the speakers but the actual drive). Of course not noticeable while music is actually playing.
Did you try the memory card/PCMCIA adapter on a laptop and it played fine? The laptop would handle all music formats but the speed issue should be about the same.
I didn't think about the card-speed and size (64 MB - not a typo) as the limiting factor. It's an old one - and works fine as a worst-case back-up media for a laptop.
Oddly enough, this morning, the car read the card and began playing MP3's. Looks like I'll stop being cheap and just go get a card that belongs to this century. (The irony isn't lost on me... to spend $$$ on the car but avoid dropping another $50 for a 8 GB card - I can laugh at this.)
I didn't think about the card-speed and size (64 MB - not a typo) as the limiting factor. It's an old one - and works fine as a worst-case back-up media for a laptop.
Oddly enough, this morning, the car read the card and began playing MP3's. Looks like I'll stop being cheap and just go get a card that belongs to this century. (The irony isn't lost on me... to spend $$$ on the car but avoid dropping another $50 for a 8 GB card - I can laugh at this.)
It must have been just a contact issue on some of the connector pins or something like that then?
I did not find the 32MB card but I tried my 64MB card and it worked perfectly. This is a Sandisk card but it isn't from the time 64MB cards appeared but a bit later, the progress on these memories is so fast, I cannot remember how old it actually is.
G_Funk.......What you mentioned only brings up the option list/playlist on the instrument cluster not the actual command screen. Are you getting yours on the center command screen?
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