[FieldingMellish]

Thought I'd start a thread for people like myself, who've just started using the USB connection for audio. I'll start the ball rolling, with a gotcha that had me worried for an hour or so:

I connected my iPod via the Y Cable and USB/Aux connectors. (I don't have iDrive by the way.) What awful, horrible, distorted sound quality! A shame, because it's so handy to be able to navigate iPod menus via the radio's display. Easier than using that f*cing dreadful 'click wheel' etc. I spent a while swapping the Y cable back and forth with my old standard AUX cable, and always found the latter gave superior sound.

Then I found the problem: the 'Aux Level' setting on the hi-fi was by default set quite high, around 5 or 6. Turned it down to 3 and hey presto, the distortion was gone.

In retrospect, maybe it should have been obvious, but.........

Any more USB audio tips???

[Bungle009]

When you turn off the ignition, my ipod doesn't switch off. Therefore when i use the car 2 days later, the battery is always dead, and it has forgotten which playlist it was on. Can the car send a powerdown signal to the ipod when you switch off the ignition ? Is this an idrive setting ?
Thanks.

[ibanezking]

Originally Posted by Bungle009

When you turn off the ignition, my ipod doesn't switch off. Therefore when i use the car 2 days later, the battery is always dead, and it has forgotten which playlist it was on. Can the car send a powerdown signal to the ipod when you switch off the ignition ? Is this an idrive setting ?
Thanks.

not sure - but in my last car i had the glovebox i-pod lead fitted - which totally took control over the i-pod and switched it on and off - charged it and basically used it as a remote CD Changer - and all functions were accessed via the head unit..............

Someone mentioned a little device that was £10.50 on Amazon that charges your ipod and can be put in the armrest - was on here 3 or 4 days ago.........

Max

[Baby Dave]

Fm, cheers for that my I pod sounded rubbish aswell again the level was too high

[MEGA]

Get a kensington liquidAUX if you don't have 6FL.

[TomF32]

Get a kensington liquidAUX if you don't have 6FL.

Where/how is the sound of a superior quality compared to a normal aux input? Although the connection is at the bottom of the iPod/iPhone in the kensington, it's still entering via aux?

Tom