Alpine CDA 9855 MIX Fiasco

[bordy51 10+ year member]

I own an Alpine CDA 9855 with a connected mini IPOD. Everything works great except the Playlist I created on the IPOD requires me to go thru the rigors of turning the MIX ALL each and everytime I stop the car and start again. I am ok as long as the radio is not interrupted (loss of power). However, it does not remember to keep MIX turned ON if the Head Unit is turned off. Any ideas out there? This drives me nuts.

Here's the other thing that totally does not make sense. As I mentioned I have an IPOD connected. The display on the 9855 does not simply provide a way to show Artist and Track Title. How rediculous is that? It will show Album and Track Title. Who designed this? So, what I have to do is go into ITUNES and change all the Album titles to the Artist Name and it displays fine. Who Engineered this?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Bordy51:crazy:

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[bordy51 10+ year member]

Does anyone have any experience with the MIX feature on the CDA9855?

 

[bordy51 10+ year member]

Are there any Alpine employees out there who would know the answers?

 

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

I used to have the KCA connected to my ipod also but it drove me crazy. Sorry to give u the bad news but I dont think there is a way around this. I know for my deck, you have the 1 2 and 3 buttons to change the type of search. 1 is playlist 2 artist and 3 album i believe. U press on of these buttons to set the search type. THEN you press the search button, this will bring up the artist, albums etc whatever u chose.

 

[Ayrton 10+ year member]

I love Alpine, but the KCA-420i blows....

I dumped mine and got the mp3 changer

 

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

^^x2 to that. I just went back to using mp3 discs with my deck. The ipod interface is horrible. Nothing against alpine though because I doubt there is another deck that is better that isnt dvd.