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Anyone know of a Head Unit that works well with a Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="vancamp" data-source="post: 7977595" data-attributes="member: 605425"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>There are 2 methods for navigating the drives... by "folder" or by "tag". Unfortunately, "folder" doesn't allow browsing a folder hierarchy... it just flattens every folder that has mp3's in it into a list (based on order on the disc, not alphabetical). On a moderately large USB drive, navigating by "tag" search appears to be the more useful approach, however, it also seems to be less capable than expected. It's impossible to "search" (browse) to anywhere by tags until the unit has added the file to it's tag library. Unfortunately, building this library appears to happen at least each time the unit is turned on, and doesn't finish on my SSD drive (~100GB of mp3 music on a 128GB drive) for &gt;20 minutes. So the only things it will find quickly are the files at the beginning of the disk. It remembers what it was playing last time and starts that immediately, but if it was part of something that hasn't been found yet on the library rebuild, it won't go beyond that song.</p><p></p><p>I'm very interested in whether you find a stock HU that deals well with HDDs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancamp, post: 7977595, member: 605425"] 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 allow browsing a folder hierarchy... it just flattens every folder that has mp3's in it into a list (based on order on the disc, not alphabetical). On a moderately large USB drive, navigating by "tag" search appears to be the more useful approach, however, it also seems to be less capable than expected. It's impossible to "search" (browse) to anywhere by tags until the unit has added the file to it's tag library. Unfortunately, building this library appears to happen at least each time the unit is turned on, and doesn't finish on my SSD drive (~100GB of mp3 music on a 128GB drive) for >20 minutes. So the only things it will find quickly are the files at the beginning of the disk. It remembers what it was playing last time and starts that immediately, but if it was part of something that hasn't been found yet on the library rebuild, it won't go beyond that song. I'm very interested in whether you find a stock HU that deals well with HDDs. [/QUOTE]
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