My MA just told me to cancel the iPod adapter that I have on order for my car. He told me that the last two people that he has gotten them for have both hated them. Both reported back that they were hard to use and not worth the money. I currently have a FM transmitter that I can keep using (it is rather bulky and will be awkward in the MINI) should it not be what T expect.

Has anyone had problems?
Complaints?
Good reviews?
Advice?

Thanks!

 

It's okay but the 2 things I hate about it are this. To fast forward through a song you have to go to repeat mode. This bugs me because I listen to a lot of long mixes where I only want to hear the end of the song. Forget to go into repeat mode and you have to start all over because the deck will advance to the next song.

This is no display support. You get the track number and that is it. Yet the receiver in the 05 can display the radio station call letters.

One more, the iPod will get stuck in the track advance mode sometimes so you have to lay off the controls and wait for the iPod to catch up. I believe this is the fault of the adapter since I've never had this happen with my headphones on.

With this in mind I am still getting one with my car. For whatever that's worth.

 

Moved

 

I don't love the adaptor but I really like it, and it's better than the alternatives.

I like the iPod out of sight in the glovebox. I like no cables showing and that it charges the iPod. I like that the steering wheel controls work. I like the sound quality, it is as good as a CD (if you rip them correctly). I can not STAND FM transmitters, I use one in our Blazer and it drives me crazy hearing the lack of quality and static sometimes.

I don't like the whole playlist/no HU display thing, but it's not a huge deal because of the way I listen to music. I just put it in random mode and skip tracks I don't want to hear. If I liked to listen to specific songs in a row it would be very annoying, however.

 

I had the aux port in my last MINI and have the IPOD adapter in the New MINI and I love it! It does stink that you don't get the track display but being able to use my steering wheel controls, having it charge (without a seperate cable) and having it all out of site in my lockable glovebox makes this a true plus over the aux input.

 

So the sound quality is good and it works in random mode

BUT

you cannot read track names, cannot play individual playlists (only one massive one,) and you cannot switch around easily?

this is making me think twice... thanks for the help all of you!

anything else i am missing? more compliments/complaints?

 

You can have 5 playlists, plus #6 which is everything. You switch between playlists with the 1-6 presets on the radio. I don't even use them.

 

You have to name the list MINI1, MINI2, etc. This is from memory of when I helped my girlfriend set her iPod up.

 

i just got mine on friday and absolutely love it. no problems at all. sounds great.

good luck - drew

 

Not to get too technical but the standard by which the deck outputs Radio station text and CD text (which would be how the ID3 tagging for the MP3s would be read) are different. Hence why you get Radio text and no CD or MP3 text. Its the HU, not the adapter.

 

But they went through the trouble to display the station ID. Wouldn't it be reading the ID3 tag than then passing that on to the display? I would think all they had to do was a little more programming but I could be wrong.