Recent content by vancamp

I've thrown in the towel... I picked up an iPod Classic simply to store my music files for the Alpine. It works well (160GB), but I wished the USB HDD/flash would've worked.

The 9400BH manual states "Typically, it will take approximately 70 seconds to create an index for 1 000 songs", so for it's stated limit of 15,000 songs it looks like it's also dealing with over 15 minutes? Does that index continue without rebuild the next time the car is started? I'm familiar...

I put an Alpine INE-S920HD into my car. Although it's relatively nice for some things, it's not particularly good dealing with large music collections on either disc or USB SSD/HDD/Flash. There are 2 methods for navigating the drives... by "folder" or by "tag". Unfortunately, "folder" doesn't...

Using an 80GB drive powered through a lighter adapter, pretty well full, with a Pioneer 6900, it takes a little over a minute (1:15?) before it starts playing. That time can be spent playing another source (radio, cd, etc.). It's relatively convenient keeping a CD of mp3s in the CD drive as an...

You just need to get a different piece of software to format FAT32 to larger sizes. It's just a limitation in the Windows format command that keeps you from formatting larger than 32GB. I'm currently using an 80GB with my Pioneer 6900, and I just limited it to that size to keep the time spent...