inputs.text: decent player great design failures - bought cd player purchasing similar ipod compatible kenwood wife hope would superior product unfortunately spite spending almost 100 extra got let try tell alpine isnt good kenwood without sounding like im getting paid kenwood sell something radio cd player fine use primarly player ipod thats review \\fancy\\ display doesnt seem fancy large portion screen taken giant icon could removed provide space song text biggest issue player ability search songs huge failure alpine not providing analog scroll speed wheel essentially search song list number keys take predetermined spot list confused purchased assumed example 1 would skip 5 list every time hit 2 would skip 10 etc would good design feature not case 16 always takes present percentage list 100 songs 1 would always take song 15 6 would always take song 85 not sure exact percentages example correct someone 100 songs would probably acceptable someone 1000 songs not someone even becomes increasingly absurd want song 1789 4 takes 1600 5 takes 1890 youve got lot songs scroll normally would not problem developers would build logic scroll wheel buzz list fast spin fast slow spin slow similar ipod works not get approximately 23 songs scrolled per second means 100 songs youll spinning wheel 3050 seconds 200 60100 seconds absolutely absurd changed listen music normally would listen music shuffle occasionally search song whatever random reason wanted hear song done shuffle resumes happy searching specific song far costly time either search artist find song still takes long manually resume shuffle often not ignore urge continue listening shuffle kenwood bought wife direct search feature search title artist album etc put many characters want hit search returns filtered list search songs starting r songs starting ro songs starting rob etc fast intuitive way search songs far superior alpine require \\attention\\ therefore not safe driving fast enough stoplight still retains static scrolling ability alpine offers another feature bugs alpine ignores \\skip shuffling\\ listening group songs shuffle whole song list correctly recognizes skips songs youve marked dont want hear audiobooks shuffle playlist however listen group songs example songs artist ive marked \\skip shuffling\\ play whether im shuffling not start playing song group ipod connect stereo play correct songs otherwise wont people probably wont issue boggles mind alpine would ignore builtin setting ipod one mode recognizing following another thelast annoying feature talk song list sorted not song title artist means ac\dc thunderstruck show near top tool aenema show bottom may made sense song names preceded artist not show song titles mind boggling not figure alphabetically artist order locate song constantly thinking artists wrote songs around searching order figure list song info often takes little bit pop display listening tracks sometimes frequently rarely doesnt display anything intermittent error go back songs forward back track display correctly unit compatible 30gb ipod video highly recommend someone using fm transmitter get something like used one years drove crazy poor sound quality static rained searching stations traveling huge headaches little things really great solutions problems alpine nice not worth price imo much prefer wifes kenwood excelon