Well I emailed pioneer Friday and asked them if they had a solution to my problem, they said the iPod cable won't work either because it will only play songs in the "iPod", since I play out of rhapsody they suggested I pick up a a/v iPhone cable and run that to the a/v input on the back of the z1. It works. So for those of us running an iPhone and prefer to use a streaming service like rhapsody or pandora, etc. Just go buy the apple composite cable and plug it in.