inputs.text: sounds great terrible user interface - first bad found lot finding purchase head unit cda117 fairly disappointing experience sounds great frustratingly difficult distracting interface imagine possible alpine came develop insanely counterintuitive escapes many serious flaws player terms safety distraction driving not even attehempt searching song driving impossible top previousnext buttons shape size half buttons see phrase \\banking\\ scanning usb one time going flip seriously cannot navigate folder directory software developer user experience consultant absolutely amazed terrible experience 1 volumemute completely unavailable \\banking\\ appears forcing escape operation change volume 2 relevance bank1 bank2 supposed tell seehems like arbitrarily selected random collection 3 larger 1000 song collections unusable 4 scrolling terrible one itehem per turn even attehempted search anything whatsoever thing 5 volume press far sensitive bringing search function instead volume control least 90 time 6 biggest flaw previousnext buttons 7 display completely annoying not need ipod icon need meta information without stupid icon display would not need annoyingly scroll artist album track info stupid good player sounds absolutely phenomenal audio controls excellent clearly alpine spends time development not user interface ipod connects no issues usb powered external hard drive not bother large collection though overally happy annoying things beginning force reconsider alpine future tip alpine instead constantly churning new units time myriad differences actually perfect single product releasing