IPOD INTERFACE--- HOW TO IMPROVE

[lreinstein]

My new M35x (2008) has a reasonable iTunes interface and it seems to recognize and interface well to my 60GB IPOD (5G). Since it also charges it I plan to simply leave it hooked up in the car.

MY Problem (and question) relates to the fact that I have ALOT of music... something like 950 Albums appear on my Navigation Screen when I select ALBUMS in the iTunes interface!! This is not a problem on the iPod which allows a super fast scroll through the selections or even (with newer iPods, a selection of the 1st letter of the Album for fast retrieval).

However, the Infiniti iTunes interface always displays in alphabetical order, and even with the fast scroll through the albums, it takes several minutes to select an album that begins with the letter M (such as Marley, or Mendelson).... let alone getting to play something by Sting (S). !!!

There needs to be a much faster scroll for this to be used with larger music collections!!!!

Are there any hints or workarounds for this problem? I have not thought of any yet and would appreciate the help.

(Do engineers at Infiniti listen to any of this feedback for future updates?)

Larry

[the converted]

Time to start making some playlists. It will get you to the music you listen to most of the time quickly, then you can scroll through your artists when your feeling frisky.

[lreinstein]

Is there any way to get feedback to Infiniti about such problems??? It would be an easy fix to have a fast scroll option (say after pressing the scroll for 3 sec it goes faster)???

I have 9700 songs and I can hardly get past the A's. This can not be what was intended and in my mind should consitute a "bug".

Playlists are an idea, but not a great solution.

THanks

Larry

[the converted]

I'm sure that there would be a good email address on the Infiniti web site. I'm not sure what good it would do you though, they don't make the stereo in the first place (even if they did it's too much work to revise the firmware in it for them to do anything for you) So make the best of what you have because it's not going to change unless you put in a different stereo.

[Crunkrich]

My Pioneer headunit does the same thing when I hook up my ipod through the USB plug. When a song is over, I unplug it, select the new song, then plug it back in and it plays from there.