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Originally Posted by Codeman

Not sure about the problem your having with the playlists, I seem to be able to cycle through all of mine fairly easily.

Well I have done some more messing around with it now and realized I have to hit the "abc" softkey to scroll through playlists, so they seem to work, including smart playlists. I think I was expecting to just be able to select "playlists" and start scrolling right away with the arrow softkeys, but you have to hit "abc" first.

A couple of other observations:
-The setting that lets it automatically cycle the display between artist, title, and time remaining is helpful and was something they didn't have on my last car's ipod connector
-The delay between when you play the next and previous songs (using the steering wheel or not) is much longer (I think it's around 3-4 seconds) than on my last car's ipod connector, which performed the same function at about the same speed as the ipod. The PAL manual actually has a warning about not scrolling too fast or some such thing because it can't keep up.
-Switching between Ipod and XM is terrible if you use XM a lot. Basically every odd time you select XM it plays in iPod mode, while every even time it plays in XM mode. To explain, let's say you just wanted to listen to XM, here's what you do:

1. Radio starts in AM mode. Press "Mode" to switch to FM.
2. Press "Mode" again to switch to XM in IPod mode. The display looks like it is in XM mode though just that it says "iPod Selected" at the top.
3. Press "Mode" again to switch to "AM".
4. Press "Mode" again to switch to "FM".
5. Press "Mode" again to switch to XM mode "For real".

As it happens I don't like XM so I intend to just leave it in iPod mode. Every so often it switches back to AM or FM on me though when I start the car - I haven't figured out what the situations that cause that are yet.

	SorcererXIII Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Orlando, FL	Quote: Originally Posted by Codeman Not sure about the problem your having with the playlists, I seem to be able to cycle through all of mine fairly easily. Well I have done some more messing around with it now and realized I have to hit the "abc" softkey to scroll through playlists, so they seem to work, including smart playlists. I think I was expecting to just be able to select "playlists" and start scrolling right away with the arrow softkeys, but you have to hit "abc" first. A couple of other observations: -The setting that lets it automatically cycle the display between artist, title, and time remaining is helpful and was something they didn't have on my last car's ipod connector -The delay between when you play the next and previous songs (using the steering wheel or not) is much longer (I think it's around 3-4 seconds) than on my last car's ipod connector, which performed the same function at about the same speed as the ipod. The PAL manual actually has a warning about not scrolling too fast or some such thing because it can't keep up. -Switching between Ipod and XM is terrible if you use XM a lot. Basically every odd time you select XM it plays in iPod mode, while every even time it plays in XM mode. To explain, let's say you just wanted to listen to XM, here's what you do: 1. Radio starts in AM mode. Press "Mode" to switch to FM. 2. Press "Mode" again to switch to XM in IPod mode. The display looks like it is in XM mode though just that it says "iPod Selected" at the top. 3. Press "Mode" again to switch to "AM". 4. Press "Mode" again to switch to "FM". 5. Press "Mode" again to switch to XM mode "For real". As it happens I don't like XM so I intend to just leave it in iPod mode. Every so often it switches back to AM or FM on me though when I start the car - I haven't figured out what the situations that cause that are yet.