Ideally I'd like to have my whole music collection (about 600Gb) with me, but I'd settle for a 160Gb iPod. The music source will mostly live out of sight (glovebox, boot, between seat storage) but I listen to a lot of new music so I must have ID3 tags displayed.
My preferred solution would probably be an aftermarket head unit, but I can't seem to find one that does what I want and actually works (e.g., the Parrot Asteroid and RKi8400 look great on paper, but get terrible feedback on the web).
So, the DICE MediaBridge 1500 seems to be the way to go. Can anybody confirm (or deny) the following?
- There is only one input cable - so it's iPod or USB flash drive but not both at the same time
- Using a USB flash drive of over 4Gb will take a very long time to index - and it does this every time you switch the car on
- There is no voice control implemented
- To make a phone call, you can only dial out from the handset
- The CD changer is disabled
- Even if I place the MediaBridge and the input cables at the front of the car, I'd still need to run a cable to the back of the car to pick up the CD Changer connection - i.e. I can't do this at the head unit end
- It's very tedious to select a particular artist if you have a lot of music. (e.g. if I want to listen to some Ramones, I need to go to the Artists menu and then step through every artist from A to R before I get to Ramones - which could be hundreds of clicks)
- It will work with an Android phone
Many thanks for any information.