Problems with Alpine W200 and iPod?

[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

I can't get my IVA-W200 to work correctly with my 4th generation iPod. Sometimes it will recognize it, some times it wont. But even it if recognizes the iPod, after few seconds it will say 'No-iPod'.

Any ideas?

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[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

No similar experiences?

 

[sniper007 10+ year member]

nope wish i had an ipod though

 

[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

Well, not the response I was looking for...

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

i have yet to try an ipod w/ my w200. when i get my ancient ipod fixed and purchase the cable, i'll let you know //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

Call Alpine. Really, they'll be more likely to help than we are.

 

[MRCADDY 10+ year member]

what kind of ipod adapter youre using i use the pioneer one maybe I can help?

 

[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

Here we go:

The unit cannot be used with the software versions earlierthan “2005-02-22”. For details about “iPod Software

Update,” refer to the iPod Instruction Manual.

I haven't updated my iPod in a while because I had a computer crash, and about 1500 of the song's titles got jacked up and I didn't want them to update on my iPod that way.

 

[Rochambeau 10+ year member]

Are you finding that the iPod's output is the weak link in the SQ? I got the same setup and I think I just may try to get the Alpine USB adapter when they release it in the US so that I can let the HU do the DAC and not the iPod. Problem is then you lose playlist capability I am pretty sure.

 

[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

Are you finding that the iPod's output is the weak link in the SQ? I got the same setup and I think I just may try to get the Alpine USB adapter when they release it in the US so that I can let the HU do the DAC and not the iPod. Problem is then you lose playlist capability I am pretty sure.

I haven't had a chance to use it yet.

Right now I'm pulling all the music off my iPod, so I can update it, and load all the music back into iTunes with the correct MP3 tags.

The iPod is still considered to have the best D/A conversion from a portable MP3 player , but again, I haven't had a chance to use mine with my Alpine HU yet.

 

[ScottGS400 10+ year member]

I believe with the KCE-422i the DAC on the head unit is being used, but I could be wrong.

Are you finding that the iPod's output is the weak link in the SQ? I got the same setup and I think I just may try to get the Alpine USB adapter when they release it in the US so that I can let the HU do the DAC and not the iPod. Problem is then you lose playlist capability I am pretty sure.

 

[Cmonster 10+ year member]

If you have a Mac you can use a great backloading program called Senuti to take all the music off your ipod and put it back on your computer

 

[AppleBonker 10+ year member]

If you have a Mac you can use a great backloading program called Senuti to take all the music off your ipod and put it back on your computer

For what it's worth you can back door that on any computer to pull the music off. Just go into your file explorer and set it to show all hidden files and folders. The music is on the ipod in hidden folders with hidden files by filenames of random characters. Once you pull all that onto your computer you can have iTunes organize your music for you (Preferences -> Advanced tab -> "Keep iTunes Music folder organized). Of course, this really only works well if you have the proper tags on all your files. I had to do this for a friend when her harddrive crashed.

 

[Bolognablake 10+ year member]

For what it's worth you can back door that on any computer to pull the music off. Just go into your file explorer and set it to show all hidden files and folders. The music is on the ipod in hidden folders with hidden files by filenames of random characters. Once you pull all that onto your computer you can have iTunes organize your music for you (Preferences -> Advanced tab -> "Keep iTunes Music folder organized). Of course, this really only works well if you have the proper tags on all your files. I had to do this for a friend when her harddrive crashed.

For some reason, only about 60% of the music on the iPod was pulled off the iPod that way.

I just paid $10 for iGadget, it also pulls off play lists and has other goodies it can preform as well.