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Old 08-31-2006, 05:10 AM
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My Ipod and Ipod adaptor were stolen out of my car a couple weeks ago and I hate being without my music. These Phatbox pieces are getting relatively cheap. How do you toggle through songs? Is it hard? I am used to using my Ipod which is a piece of cake. Would i be disappointed going to this after using the Ipod? What kind of formats are accepted? MP3? AAC? M4A? making all of my music into mp3 form would make me just go buy another ipod... Please offer some insight.

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love it, but then ive not had the pleasure of anything else. interface is a bit kludgy though
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can you be more specific? how do you pick through artists... songs? any pics or it working?>
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Default It rocks, puts Ipod to shame. Software does NOT suck. It is extremely easy to use

..and in the car it's even easier. You navigate w/ the HU. Search via Artist, Album, Play lists, Genre. It's all done through your CDC buttons. I love it. It's all announced via a chicks voice (or a guy if you play on that team). Plus you can download all kinds of voices for it. Anything you name an artist, album, etc. is what it says in the car too. Nothing compares to it for in car music. It plays any/all formats that you can think of.

Bad news is.... It's gonna be real hard to find one. Not made for Audi anymore ;-(
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does it only recognize MP3 files? or does it work with others?
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Default Read my reply Beyotch! ;p It reads "any/all formats". Just buy one and shut the...

heck up ;p
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if it doesnt play aac/m4a files, i am going to kill you. now i need to find one.
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Default Ready? Even formats it doesn't recognize (Haven't found one yet) it automatically

converts it, and you wouldn't even know it was doing it. Suck it ;p
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I love it. Factory head unit integration was key for me. Never had one problem.
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Default It Sucks! Use to take up all the space that I needed for my Water/Meth injection system. :oP

So I decided to change it to an iPod system. Truthfully it's very nice I just needed the space.

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