Car Tech forum: Portable Harddrive for Use of playing MP3s in my Car

Your ipod may not be organized.

The ipod will search for artist, album, etc. and organize it on the display so you can pick your music more easily. But it may not be stored that way.

The deck in a car doesn't always see it this way, it may just see the songs as files and list them in alphabetical or chronological order.

What I would do is move all of the songs off of your ipod into a file in your computer. Organize the songs however you wish into files for the artist or specific playlist. If you load them into Real Jukebox or iTunes, this should be a little easier.

Then sync your ipod with that folder. It should load the songs in organized files and your deck might see them in a better way.

Another option is using the AUX AUDIO input on your deck. The cord doesn't cost much to go from the jack on the ipod to the AUX jack on the deck. It's a cord with two male ends and it really shoud only be $5 or $10. This will allow you to just play from your ipod and you won't have to deal with the FM transmitter or the interference that can come with those. It's a little tacky(if you care about that) but it's better than spending $100-$200 on some silly drive that organizes the files when there's plenty of software that does that for you.