Ipod w/over 40gb of music head unit locks up ?

[ikeym]

HI, my ipod has 90gb of music 12,700 songs ,a friend gave me it's a 160gb and the head unit locks up sometimes or works very slow can't change anything but song on what's playing ...is my head unit bad or is the 90gb of music to much for the car ??? dealer wants to reflash but then I would have to enter my 140 phone contacks one at a time a real pain ...anybody know thanks so much IKEYM

 

[OBCT]

I've done some limited experimenting with a 1TB hard drive loaded with almost 10k songs, hooked up to the Genesis DIS via USB, and would say my experiences were similar to yours.

The seek/load wait time upon initial boot and between songs was noticeably longer with these high track volumes when compared to an 8GB containing ~1000 songs. This makes logical sense.

In my experience, the lag was normally just slightly annoying and not something I couldn't have become accustomed to over time. There were a couple of instances when it "locked up" or similar, which I blame on a combination of over-extended processor and sluggish software.

I now use a combination of 8GB and 16GB flash drives all the time, with their specific genres, instead of my full catalog on the 1TB drive. They rarely give me severe problems. [The main reason being that I've found the shuffle feature to work less and less well (ie. less random) the more tracks it has to choose from.]

I doubt your head unit is the problem. If you're worried, though, take it in.