BMW Ipod interface really stinks
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Originally Posted by JSpira' post='421099' date='May 4 2007, 02:41 PM
One solution is smart playlists and playlists. Try it.
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As long as you have playlists you're fine right? Why would you wanna sift through 60GB of music on the fly (so-to-speak)? With a ste-up like this I would think playlists are a must.
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Taken from another forum. In case this helps the issue.
Quickly searcing for Artist by name on Ipod!!!!
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Thinking this morning about the most annoying thing about the USB ipod connection (the need to scroll through hundreds of artists to get to the end of the alphabet), I think I came up with a fix. I know myself and there has never been a day when I had my ipod and thought "Hey you know, I could really listen to some Rock." or "Reggae sure would fit the bill right now." I would always think to myself I would like to hear the Rolling Stones or some Ziggy Marley, so essentially looking through my tunes by Genre was worthless. Until now . . .
I have gone through iTunes to my Ipod and changed the genre to either A, B, C, D, etc. based upon the artist name. This is very easy to do if you sort your music list on you iPod by artist (duh). Now when I go to Genre I see just these letters. When you select them it takes you to Artist. Voila! Go to Genre and jump to Z for Ziggy Marley (not sure why you would do that but that is another issue, let's assume that you wanted to). You are there in a fraction of the time. Easy fix.
P.S. This DOES NOT overwrite your GENRES in you library, just on your pod. So you got that going for you, which is nice.
Quickly searcing for Artist by name on Ipod!!!!
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Thinking this morning about the most annoying thing about the USB ipod connection (the need to scroll through hundreds of artists to get to the end of the alphabet), I think I came up with a fix. I know myself and there has never been a day when I had my ipod and thought "Hey you know, I could really listen to some Rock." or "Reggae sure would fit the bill right now." I would always think to myself I would like to hear the Rolling Stones or some Ziggy Marley, so essentially looking through my tunes by Genre was worthless. Until now . . .
I have gone through iTunes to my Ipod and changed the genre to either A, B, C, D, etc. based upon the artist name. This is very easy to do if you sort your music list on you iPod by artist (duh). Now when I go to Genre I see just these letters. When you select them it takes you to Artist. Voila! Go to Genre and jump to Z for Ziggy Marley (not sure why you would do that but that is another issue, let's assume that you wanted to). You are there in a fraction of the time. Easy fix.
P.S. This DOES NOT overwrite your GENRES in you library, just on your pod. So you got that going for you, which is nice.
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Not having an iPod, I never really realised that life could quite as demanding (or even worth living)!
If I really want to put up with MP3, I'll burn a disc in 4 minutes and have 7 hours of listening without feeling that my choices have been partcularly compromised.
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If I really want to put up with MP3, I'll burn a disc in 4 minutes and have 7 hours of listening without feeling that my choices have been partcularly compromised.
2c
ABC
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