So, I continue to find myself completely unimpressed with the unconnect system's iPod intergration. Today I wanted to "play" "artist" "the who" through voice command from my 160gb iPod classic. It refused to recognize the voice commands (playing other bands). I'm not about to get through the looong list of artists on the browse artist list. (Going page by page through that list is ridiculously slow!) So I selected the a to z button, expecting to be able to type the artist's name. But the only letters/numbers I could select were A, B, D, K and 3... wth?! How are you supposed to be able to look up music on this thing without wanting to put a hole through its screen?! Any help or tips are appreciated!

 

which radio do you have? The model will be located on the lower right corner of the radio faceplate. It'll be a 3 digit code.

Ok, so at 160 gig, you probably have a lot of media on the iPod. Is htis correct? You can use VR commands for the locating of artist, albums, tracks etc.

 

Sorry, I forgot to put the radio model. It's the RBZ. I do have LOTS of music on the ipod, and many times the VR works for navigating through it. However there are some artists/albums/songs that the VR completely fails at. The Who being the most recent, I've tried at least 10 times and it keeps coming up with other groups. I'd like to used the A-Z list jump, but like I said it only shows some letters available. I've even tried those that are available and it jumps to things that don't even relate. Very frustrating.

 

I see the vehicle is a 2011, do you know what the build date is?
Does the Uconnect perform phone calls ok? for instance when you say "call Roland" (or any other name), does the call go thru ok?
How soon after the key is turned on are you trying to use the VR commands?
In your music menu under artist, how is The Who listed?
If you press the VR button and say "list albums by The Who", how does Uconnect respond?
Is all your music from your personal library or are there some music that is from other sources?
If you were to scroll thru the artist using the back button so you can get to The Who faster, how is it listed?
Please excuse the questions and just to be honest, there may be more. But they need to be asked in order to diagnose the issue. Thanks

 

Not sure if this will help, but I'm pretty sure iPod/iTunes sorts "The" at the beginning of group names to the end when it makes the folder. E.g. "The Who" will show up as "Who, The" in the folder list. And the iPod intelligently sorts it in the Artist database list (select Music, select Artists) under "W" for "Who" rather than "T" for "The." Perhaps try saying "Who The" for the voice recognition...?

 

It took me a little bit to get the info gathered, but here's what's going on for the questions asked:
There are other ones I've had issues with. It will not recognize the band Powerman5000. It also won't recognize the album Oceania (by Smashing Pumpkins). This is why I would think there's got to be a different way to look up things. I'd hoped the "A-Z" button was it, but since all the characters aren't selectable, that doesn't work.

 

I really hate to ask this question and I don't mean anything by it, ok. Do you have an accent or do you speak clear English?
I may have missed this so I'm gonna cheat and just ask. You have a 160 Gig iPod, is this the classic Gen 7?

 

No worries, it's a fair question. I don't have an accent and since I've tired this dozens of times I've annunciated it as clearly as possible. No luck. The 160 gb ipod is the classic 6th gen. (model A 1 2 3 8) Really I'm not so worried about the VR as much as I would think there's got to be a way to lookup artists, albums, song etc. without VR. Since some bands don't have normal names. Just going through the artist list down to page 133 to manually select it took something like 8 minutes! The uconnect seems to have an extremely slow interface.

 

Thanks for your being ok with that.
I'm pretty sure that I have that model somewhere (my kids may have borrowed it) let me look for it and I'll get back on this issue, ok. HAve I already asked if you have rebooted the iPod and if so, have you also tried restoring and re--syncing the ipod with itunes?

 

That "A - 1-2-3-8" seems to be a number used by several ipods. Can you go into menu- settings - about- scroll over to the model #. Can I get that # please? Thanks
Darn forum's not letting me put the # in, but I'm sure you know the # that I'm referring to. (remove the dashes)