So, I purchased my brand new Dension Gateway 500 from In Car Music in Leyton, East London for £300, all in. You are not able to input first letter(s) and start filtering the results with the mObridge. With the Dension, you are apparanatly able to drill down and search artist / title / etc by inputting the first letters and the unit narrows down the search results. It also works out slightly cheaper if you install it yourself. The Dension offers slightly better functionality than the mObridge from the research I have done. I can then navigate around this using the BMW IDrive system. With The Dension I have the potential to plug in USB sticks or external hard discs full of mp3's. Also, it has limited compatiibility with newer Applie units to charge. We know the BMW kit has limitations, including slow operation with an IPod with any number of artists / titles on it. I know the file names won't make any sense, but I'm less concerted about that than I am just getting the files.So, I have investigated the potential options relating to getting seemless IPod control through my IDrive (CCC) system.Īfter much research the Dension Gateway 500 system seems to be the best option. I can plug the iPod into my MATE (20.04 LTS) server and it recognizes it as an Apple iPod, but I still am not able to dig into it and copy the files out. Apple is useless in this regard, suggesting that I find an old Mac running a version of iTunes that supports this ability, Microsoft simply says, 'Huh?' and so I guessing the must be a way to do this on Linux. Now that Apple has officially dropped the iPod as a product, and given that nothing lasts forever, I'm trying to find a way to copy/move these files off of it. The devices even supported 'Disk mode,' which would mount them as just another HDD. In the old days, when Apple supplied iTunes on their Macs, moving songs into and out of iPods was relatively easy. I don't even have the original source for many of these any more. I have an old original iPod touch (1st gen, 16GB) on which I have some 1,466 songs.

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