Alpine Head Unit Install

[TurboBanana]

Hi, just a quick question...

I have installed the following in my Leon Cupra R

CDA-9831R with KCA-420i [ipod thingy]

...everything appears to be functioning correctly...but...

WHICH BUTTONS ON THE HEAD UNIT DO WHAT...can't find ANY information about it at all....?!

Any help greatly appreciated...

Cheers

 

[andythom]

It should be in your user manual?

Tried to find an online one but couldn't........

 

[Tallpaul]

i've got basically the same headunit with the ipod thingy too. There are a lot of buttons, any specifics you need to know?

TBH i never read the manual at all, just pushed the buttons to see what they do.

 

[TurboBanana]

Yeah, thought that...but the KCA ipod thingy points me to the Head Unit User Manual and I can't ind anything about it in there...maybe its just me... will have to double check...

Thanks for havin a look anyway...

 

[TurboBanana]

Err...well if I SKIP a track.. ">>>" it seems to start moving UP through folders...just wonder HOW you VIEW whats on there and then SELECT what you want to listen to...

 

[Tallpaul]

righto...

select the CHANGER as source (ie iPod)

by default it'll play the first song on your pod, or the last song you'd selected with the HU.

Press 1, 2 or 3 to select the differant search options:

1 = Playlists
2 = Artist or possibly Track Title
3 = Album

Once you've selected the type of search you want to do, press the search button (little button to the right of the volume dial with a picture of a folder on it).

Use the volume dial to scroll through the list of playlists/artists/albums.

push the volume dial in to select what you want to play.

The track skip buttons will then skip through the tracks on the playlist/by that artist/on the album, but whatever has been selected (say an album) will play on a loop (start to finish) untill you use the search function to choose something else.

Pressing title repeatadly will change what is displayed while a song is playing ie Artist/track/album/playlist name/time etc

 

[TurboBanana]

Excellent, easy peasy then?

Has anyone had any problems...ie. slow reponse etc...or is this something you just have to get used to...probably been covered already...in which case...err...someone else posted this message...

 

[Tallpaul]

the interface is slow ie when you scroll through albums etc it takes a while.

some people with loads of songs on there iPod (like 10-15gb+) reckon that some songs just can't be accessed from the headunit? not sure if that's true as i and some of my friends use this interface and have never had any problems.

i've been using it for 18 months and it still works fine. i find you have to decide what you want to listen to before you go looking for it otherwise its a pain in the arse.

 

[TurboBanana]

OK m8, excellent...

Should be fine, i'm very patient

Cheers again for your post...

 

[TurboBanana]

Can you get it to SHUFFLE at all m8?