Ipod Vs. USB Flash Drive

[AGlenn]

Can anyone tell me if there is an advantage to using an Ipod over a usb flash drive to play MP3s?

I was very surprised to find out the Genny does not support ID3 tags. If i get an Ipod classic would I be able to sort by genre or artist? One more question, with an Ipod can you still arrange music in folders?

I have never been an apple fanboy, but I would get an I pod if it made it easier to get to my music.

Glenn

2011 Genesis 4.6L Sedan

 

[msitter]

I used a 16gb flash drive burned in Itunes. I just scroll through the alphabetized list on the screen and play what I want. I don't own an Ipod so that was my only option. Someone on here used a 128gb SSD and put about 8000 songs worth of music and controls it with his DIS controller.

 

[robthoke]

IPOD integration is not the best. You can't see what song is playing and oftentimes when you restart the car, the IPOD starts over. I found it to be annoying so I filled up an 8GB flash drive. You can drive a long time without repeating songs and you can see what is playing. I carry my IPOD just in case, but rarely do I use it. With flash drives of 64GB and getting bigger, they are just making IPODs irrelevant in cars.

 

[waveman]

IPOD integration is not the best. You can't see what song is playing and oftentimes when you restart the car, the IPOD starts over. I found it to be annoying so I filled up an 8GB flash drive. You can drive a long time without repeating songs and you can see what is playing. I carry my IPOD just in case, but rarely do I use it. With flash drives of 64GB and getting bigger, they are just making IPODs irrelevant in cars.

Maybe something's changed since 2009, but I can definitely see the name of the song that's playing on my iPod, and I can pick artists and playlists. Random play works, although I have to reset it each time I start the car. I especially like the convenience of being able to customize playlists in iTunes and quickly sync them to the iPod, which remains in my car at all other times.

To the OP: Why not borrow an iPod and try it for awhile to see if it's worth it to you?

 

[robthoke]

Maybe something's changed since 2009, but I can definitely see the name of the song that's playing on my iPod, and I can pick artists and playlists. Random play works, although I have to reset it each time I start the car. I especially like the convenience of being able to customize playlists in iTunes and quickly sync them to the iPod, which remains in my car at all other times.

To the OP: Why not borrow an iPod and try it for awhile to see if it's worth it to you?

Maybe it's the way I've filed the songs on my IPOD that is causing this for me. I can see everything fine on the IPOD but when I pull it in I've got other file folders prior to the song and artist. I still like the simplicity of the flash drive however.

 

[krunchy]

I started with a flash drive and then ended up with a 160Gb Ipod Classic which is always left in the car.

I'm a music purist and so wanted all my files to have the least amount of compression. Unlike many factory stereos, the Lexicon stereo is good enough that you can hear the difference between compression levels in MP3 files. The classic contains ALL my music in 320kbps format (best possible) and I found it easier to navigate through my collection using it than with the flash drive. Besides, a USB drive would not have had enough space to contain my entire music collection.

If you want to organize the files on a flash drive, you have to name them and sort them into folders that make sense to you. If your files are labelled correctly, iTunes and an iPod can do most of the organizing for your automatically allowing you to sort by Genre, Artist, Song etc with relative ease. You can also create your own playlists for different styles and energy levels so that you can instantly call up the kind of music you want to listen to at any particular time. A flash drive cannot do this for you without you first setting it up an organizing it the way you want it. Once you do this, you are stuck with what you did. If you want to add more music later you then have to sort it out first and save the files to the directory's you want which is a lot of hassle.

If you just want to play music randomly a flash drive would be OK. Just drop everything into one folder select random playback and away you go. If you want to be able to pick and chose what you listen to, then the ipod is the better way to go.

I like travelling with all the music I own, ready chose and play whenever I want it. Mainly for this reason the Ipod was the way to go for me.

 

[bigel]

Is there anyone (everyone?) out there using a conventional cable to connect their iPod to their Genny? I can't imagine that folks are purchasing the OEM cable from Hyundai...or is there no other option?

 

[MichaelOne]

I tried it. Besides the fact that no information was displayed and I couldn't control anything, the audio quality was inferior to what I got with the Hyundai ipod cable. I couldn't explain that, since I thought the digital connection you get with the Hyundai cable only provides the control function.

 

[CapoCriminali]

I tried it. Besides the fact that no information was displayed and I couldn't control anything, the audio quality was inferior to what I got with the Hyundai ipod cable. I couldn't explain that, since I thought the digital connection you get with the Hyundai cable only provides the control function.

The Hyundai cable actually uses the AUX in on the car to do the sound. It's a 2 prong USB/3.5mm cable on one end and an iPod adapter on the other. The iPod can provide sound via the dock connector (iPod speaker docks, etc) which may or may not be higher quality than the headphone jack (I'm not sure). I'm pretty willing to bet that it isn't digital, however, since the 3.5mm jack is required.