Misterb Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 ...to get to the song I want? This is on an AVIC-D3 Let's say I have 300 pages of artist names, and the one I want to listen to alphabetically comes in at number 150. Do I really have to either press the up or down arrow 150 times to get to that artist, or hold the button down and listen to it beep 150 times and wait minutes for it to get there? This can't be right. I must be missing something. Pioneer wouldn't possibly be that idiotic, would they? I mean, why copy over the look and feel of the scroll wheel, if it isn't going to allow the ability to quickly scroll down your lists and also see what letter you're on? Any hacks, ideas, or ways to deal with it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MisFit Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 thats it, deal with it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misterb Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 What's the deal, did the people at Pioneer never actually use their product before they released it? Five minutes actually using it would have told them that it is absolutely unacceptable to have to literally press a damn button 200 times to get to the album you want. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crustyjuggler Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Count yourself lucky. I had the 980BT with the Ipod interface unit. It would literally only show 3 artists then lag like a 56k connection playing Counter Strike when you tried to scroll further. In the end, you had to cull down your artist list, make a ton of playlists or just be patient and hope you could get to the song you wanted before you made it to your destination. Ultimately its why I sold the dang thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whtcrxghst Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 You can make a playlist for each letter of the alphabet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letterman52 Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 I think I am going to have to do that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFiSi Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Or you could narrow down your artist list by selecting a single genre first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo2390 Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I just ordered one and this concerns me.....I havent installed it yet, but based on the pictures theres a bar between the up/down arrows...can you drag that? Also would having a remote help scrolling go faster? Thanx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whtcrxghst Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Nope I just ordered one and this concerns me.....I havent installed it yet, but based on the pictures theres a bar between the up/down arrows...can you drag that? Also would having a remote help scrolling go faster? Thanx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ Hellfire Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 You can unplug the ipod, select the song/album you want, the plug it back in and hit play and it will be where you set it. Works on the D2! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misterb Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 You can unplug the ipod, select the song/album you want, the plug it back in and hit play and it will be where you set it. Works on the D2! I hope you're joking... I'm surprised you didn't recommend I buy an FM transmitter for the iPod... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misterb Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 You can make a playlist for each letter of the alphabet At first, that sounded like a pain, but now I'm starting to think this will be the best option. Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letterman52 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I think I like the alphabet idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markt Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I took someones advice from the forum here and changed the genre to a single letter-a-z-#, I then went into itunes and renamed the genre to the artist name (just a single letter). Now if I want to search, I select the artist-album-song. Its a little bit to set up but it does work great. Mark T Chicago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misterb Posted January 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I took someones advice from the forum here and changed the genre to a single letter-a-z-#, I then went into itunes and renamed the genre to the artist name (just a single letter). Now if I want to search, I select the artist-album-song. Its a little bit to set up but it does work great. Mark T Chicago Sounds interesting, but I don't follow how you're going about this. Do you mind expanding on it a bit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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