curious about this.

I have 3 different ipods, a 8gb one, 2gb and an old 4gb one.

2gb one is a Nano 1st gen
8gb one is a Nano 4th gen
4gb one is a Mini (not sure if 1st or 2nd gen)

the Nanos work fine in the car but the Mini does not. Anyone else tried a fairly old ipod in their 2015+?

 

My 120GB and 160GB Classics both work, but lock up after ~40 songs. 3rd gen Nano locks up in between 20-40 songs. I have not tried my second-gen Nano.

 

we dont have the freezing problems, we've listened to 5 hours of songs at a time

 

I have a 5th Gen 80gb Classic. I came here looking for some advice. My music [mostly] plays fine. A few very random glitches here or there. But, recently I've gotten into podcasts and downloaded a bunch of them to my iPod. Only the first episode of each podcast shows up when plugged into the car. I've verified there is more than one episode of each podcast on the iPod, but the car only ever shows the first episode. Thoughts? This makes me sad.

 

I've had all kinds of issues with my 120GB iPod Classic and my '16 LX, see separate thread. Freezing and error messages galore, and it's sent my iPod into recovery mode twice.

I tweeted Honda Customer Service this week about it and got the reply - please call us at an 877 number for suggestions on how to resolve. At this point, I'm seriously considering burning everything to a flash drive (thanks, Bach!) and ditching the iPod completely, as I sense a software glitch in the head unit which is not playing nicely with my iPod. It's one thing to freeze the iPod, quite another to send it into recovery mode.

 

Go to USB drive. Cheap and easy to replace. iPod classic isn't even made anymore. You don't want yours stolen.

 

thanks guys. i know the Classic is old, but man.. disappointing.

i miss my 2nd gen Fit..

 

I love the classc iPod too. I bought a second when they were discontinued so I could have a spare. I don't want them stolen though if the Fit is broken into. I used a classic with the Fit for a while. USB is cheaper and easy to replace though.

 

Yeah that's true. Can you put music in folders? I wonder how shuffle would work w/ a USB?

 

Yes, music in folders and shuffle works fine. Either all songs or within a folder.

 

Thanks!
Guess I'm buying a USB.

 

One thing to watch for with the USB is file name length ... my mp3 file naming convention is artist-album title-track number-song title, but files with long titles sometimes weren't showing up on the head unit because they were too long. Some people get around that with folder nesting: artist folder drops down to four album folders, each album folder drops down to file showing track number-song title. Right now I'm listening to only about 2000 songs on the USB so I just made four alpha folders (A-G, H-M, etc.) and renamed the files by song title-artist.

Another downside to USB is that it's easy to get a jumbled mess of file names within the folders, and that makes hard to find particular tracks. Since I'm kind of anal about the order, I played around and found that using Tag and Rename (awesome mp3 tag software) to get the sort order right then exporting that directly to a USB folder (you got to start from the top of the sort list or it doesn't work) works great. Does that make sense?