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Portable Harddrive for Use of playing MP3s in my Car

Jan 11, 2008 9:27AM PST

I have a Kenwood KDC-MP532U radio in my car that has a USB connector that I use right now to hook up my iPod to it to listen to the songs I have on it. But for some reason the songs are not organized... songs from artists are jumped around from here to there and there is no way find I song I want to hear--I just have to get lucky with the shuffle on over 3,000 songs. I'm tired of this. I want to be able to listen to the entire list of an artist songs or listen to an entire album if I wanted sooo...

I was thinking about purchasing a portable harddrive that I can connect to my car that'll hopefully organize all my music so that I'll be able to find songs easier.

Does anyone know if the "Seagate FreeAgent Go" portable drive is a good solution to my problem. Does anyone know a better solution to my problem I'd like to hear is aside from buying a hundred dollar iPod adaptor (unless this is the best bet)or those stupid things that have you using the radio to listen to your iPod.

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"portable harddrive that I can connect to my car that'll
Jan 13, 2008 4:45AM PST

"portable harddrive that I can connect to my car that'll hopefully organize all my music"

Sorry, no hard disk I know does that. People usually organize things. Things usually entropy.

The Seagate unit works in most PCs and laptops. The power is from the USB port so be ready to get a 12V power unit for it if it doesn't want to play with your Kenwood.

Bob

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organize
Jan 13, 2008 10:00PM PST

Your ipod may not be organized.

The ipod will search for artist, album, etc. and organize it on the display so you can pick your music more easily. But it may not be stored that way.

The deck in a car doesn't always see it this way, it may just see the songs as files and list them in alphabetical or chronological order.

What I would do is move all of the songs off of your ipod into a file in your computer. Organize the songs however you wish into files for the artist or specific playlist. If you load them into Real Jukebox or iTunes, this should be a little easier.

Then sync your ipod with that folder. It should load the songs in organized files and your deck might see them in a better way.

Another option is using the AUX AUDIO input on your deck. The cord doesn't cost much to go from the jack on the ipod to the AUX jack on the deck. It's a cord with two male ends and it really shoud only be $5 or $10. This will allow you to just play from your ipod and you won't have to deal with the FM transmitter or the interference that can come with those. It's a little tacky(if you care about that) but it's better than spending $100-$200 on some silly drive that organizes the files when there's plenty of software that does that for you.

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I play my iPod using the
Jan 14, 2008 5:12AM PST

cassette player (my Acura MDX is a 2004 model which still has a cassette player) and ity works great! The songs play just as they would with any other audio device. I tried a variety of transmitting devices before resorting to the old cassette.