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MichaelS
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Posted - August 18 2005 : 5:56p

Now, I have been insanely jealous of Alpine since they came out with their interface that controls the iPod through the head unit. Having a 2500 dollar radio, I was upset that mine lacked the capability.

Well, A new crutchfield catalog came today and I breezed through it and came across a Kenwood iPod interface!

It was 89.00 but I went to ebay and found it for 55 bucks...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5800330872

While my head unit plays MP3 dvd's, I would still like to use my iPod as much as possible. It keeps me from wasting DVD's everytime I rip new music.

Just figured I would let you all know!

Edited by - MichaelS on August 18 2005 5:58p

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 6:02p

Sweeet! I'll have to check it out.

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 8:52p

Here's the one for my head unit

http://www.alpine-usa.com/products/leading_technology/leading_tech_kca-420i.htm

now I just need an iPod.

I'm waiting for the day when I can just plug in a freaking memory card. I mean, that's all my head unit is missing - it can already play mp3's...

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 9:00p

Mike, I believe panasonic takes SD cards...

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 9:18p

I dont know about the whole Ipod thing, but I got my new crutchfield mag today too

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 9:28p

I spend about an hour and a half in the morning and a couple hours in the afternoon on a bus - I love my iPod. I carry around about 3000 songs on my 20gb model. I just set it to 'shuffle' and let 'er go. It's gonna be a long time before I go through the 15,000 songs I have!

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Posted - August 18 2005 : 9:32p

I have the 4 gig mini, its good enough for me.

I won't be able to fit all of my music on a 20 gig hard drive, let alone an iPod.

I have about 4 or 5 dvd's full of mp3's in the truck, but those are only the ones I ripped so far.

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 1:19a

Gotta get me one of those.

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 1:41a

Im jealous..

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 8:37a

After hearing y'all talk about these iPod's I might have to get one myself... Might be good for all the flight time I have been doing..

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 8:49a

They're perfect for flights Buck. I've got mine going before I even get on the bus and it keeps me entertained for the long ride home. If you're a music fan at all they're more than worth the price!

First thing I did after buying mine was to get one of the silicon sleeves to put it in, then bought a pair of Sony earbuds (they fit the ear better than the ones that come with the iPod). Now I'm good to go!

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 9:19a

I don't have an iPod, but I have a 300 GB maxtor that is hosting 154GB of music...

3249 Cd's
36,044 Songs...

For Tom: http://ipod.hownd.com

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 9:31a

Oh holy shit Mike! Like I don't have enough to spend my money on!

36,000 songs eh? Hmmmm....

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 9:46a

Tek.... I have NO idea what kind of hardward was used, but my stereo guy had my iPod wired into my Kenwood so that I didn't even need access to the iPod. I could control all the iPod functions through my Kenwood deck. I'll ask him what his trick was.

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 10:24a

Greg - I'd bet it was one of these:

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 10:46a

Darn well could have been.

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 11:08a

Greg,

That is what I posted bud

I just don;t actively look for what I shouldn't be spending my money on.

This unit allows the ipod to be controlled through the headunit.

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Posted - August 19 2005 : 11:15a

OK-- gotcha. For some reason I assumed that although you were hardwired into the headunit, you still used the iPod controls. Take it easy on me.... its a Friday and I'm slow :)

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Posted - July 7 2006 : 1:38a

i have an alpine cda9855 with glide touch (what a load of crap)
but the problem that i have is that my radio only recodnisees 511 artist so anything more than that i just can' t pull up also scrolling is such a pain with the glide touch but besides that i always have my ipod in my truck

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Posted - July 7 2006 : 11:55a

Kenwood has an unit you can plug your usb right into it. It is the KDC-X890, just for FYI

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Posted - July 7 2006 : 12:54p

I'm working on getting an FM Radio....<hehe>

Tom...is this the short yellow school bus?

Man...i was going to uprade my HU...but a new secret squirrel project has popped up....so my funds had to get re-diverted.....

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Posted - July 7 2006 : 11:11p

Denny G-14 classified huh?

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