AVN5500 + iPod

[Rochambeau 10+ year member]

A friend of mine had an AVN5500 installed in her car awhile ago and the shop installed an iPod interface which appears to fool the HU into thinking it's a CD-changer.

Problem is, it only shows like 4 discs and even then there is no track data. Finding songs, etc. appears to be nearly impossible. Granted I only played with it for about 5 minutes and am completely unfamiliar with the Eclipse units.

Is the iPod interface really THAT bad for that unit? I noticed that the Eclipse web site doesn't even mention the possibility of hooking up the iPod.

Is there anything I can do to add at least some functionality to it? As it is, she is so frustrated that she doesn't even use the iPod in the car. (She really isn't stereo savvy at all.)

TIA

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[saj21187 10+ year member]

how does she have her itunes library set up. She might have to go into more detail and actually list out the artist, song and album to get all of her songs. When i hooked mine up (avn6600) alot of my songs were not there because i didnt have albums for all of them. im not for sure this will work for the 5500 but its worth a try

 

[Rochambeau 10+ year member]

well, she didn't have her iPod with her so I used mine which is arranged in standard iTunes format with tags on all the songs. I could change albums by changing 'discs' on the HU but there were only 4 'discs' showing up. I have well over 100 albums on the iPod, all in Apple Lossless format.

I do believe that the 6600 is specifically set up for iPod where on the 5500 it is kind of jerry-rigged.