ok, thanks for the visual - i'll restart it once again and see if that clears things up

I have the same problem with mine and the same frustration. I usually leave the album song list screen up so the back button doesn't disappear. If I choose the song and it changes to the "now playing" screen, there is no back button. Push any of the ARTIST/ALBUM/SONG buttons and it goes back to the very beginning.

My unit also can't get the artist alphabet straight. When it loads the artists, "A Perfect Circle" is first, but the alphabet pops up with "P" at the top of the list. If I push on "S" all the s artists show up and it works, but "A" says not found (I have about 12 artists that start with "A"

It's too bad Pioneer got so close to making this unit bad ass and great interface, then came up short on basic navigation.

I have the same problem with mine and the same frustration. I usually leave the album song list screen up so the back button doesn't disappear. If I choose the song and it changes to the "now playing" screen, there is no back button. Push any of the ARTIST/ALBUM/SONG buttons and it goes back to the very beginning.

 

My unit also can't get the artist alphabet straight. When it loads the artists, "A Perfect Circle" is first, but the alphabet pops up with "P" at the top of the list. If I push on "S" all the s artists show up and it works, but "A" says not found (I have about 12 artists that start with "A"

 

It's too bad Pioneer got so close to making this unit bad ass and great interface, then came up short on basic navigation.

What's worse is they just dropped doing any updates to keep making it better. I always thought that was the whole advantage to a software-based interface - updates.

Try this - wait until the screen confirms that your iPod library has been created before selecting ANY music. Then, go to 'artists', pick one, pick an album, pick a song, and THEN press the 'album art' on the right. When I did this, it seemed that the arrow appeared and I could go BACK to the song list. Maybe it has something to do with the library being created before ANY button presses.