On Oct 11, 4:57?pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

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The thumb drive works very well, but I proably need to give it "mixed"
reviews
vs. the iPod option (or learn to use it better).

Once fired up, the digital display on the stereo face shows the title
of the folder (album) selected. It also shows the track #, but only
shows the name of the track after it starts to play.

So I can skip past one album or another on the drive, or fiddle around
until the specific album desired appears in the window. Unless there
are some tricks I'm not using, the iPod would probably make it fster
and easier to find individual albums or tracks.

On the "up" side, there is no dangling wire to mess with and no need
to rig a seperate mount for an iPod. Cost is enormously different, as
a 4.0 GB thumb drive was $30 on sale and a 4.0 iPod isabout 5 times as
much.

So you spend tens of thousands on your boat upgrade and have a problem with
the $120 difference between a cheap thumbdrive and an bipod, even though you
admit the Ipod would be better:

Quote: "Unless there are some tricks I'm not using, the bipod would
probably make it fster and easier to find individual albums or tracks."

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The iPod might sort the music more conveniently. It won't store it any
"better", and will require stringing a klutzy looking cable between
the face of the stereo and wherever I could mount the iPod. I'm not
sure that makes it "better", just different. We like to keep things
fairly well lashed down, particularly something as fragile as an
electronic device.
When conditions get snotty, we like to minimize the amount of stuff
that goes zinging past the earlobes in unexpected flight. One
illustration I saw of an iPod adapted to a stereo showed it literally
hanging underneath......which wouldn't work at all in any sort of
actual seaway.