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lets you control an iPod with a compatible Pioneer in-dash stereo * compatible with all docking iPods, including video iPods, iPod photos, iPod nanos, and iPod minis * sends song, artist, album, and time information to your Pioneer stereo's display * recharges iPod battery * lP-Bus pass-through lets you connect a compatible satellite radio tuner or CD changer *

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Buyer's feedback: - * A fantastic complement if you have an Ipod ...
If you have an Ipod, this adapter is very useful. You don't need to burn CD's anymore since you have all your musics from your Ipod for you in your car in a practical way.
Features I found important:
- you can control directly from your Pioneer CD Player every important feature available in your Ipod
- the information available on Ipod's display is also visible on the display of the Pioneer CD player
It's a good investment. I recommend.

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Buyer's feedback: - Caveat Emptor - very limited functionality
I recently purchased and installed the Pioneer 4800MP head unit and the Pioneer CD IB100II iPod controller/adapter. These products are frequenly described as allowing you to control your iPod through your car stereo. To a large extent, that claim is false.

When used with the 4800MP (which is described by Pioneer as iPod compatible), only the first 8 characters of the artist or album name are visible. No track information is available. The display will ONLY display (a) the first 8 characters of the album name, OR (b) the first 8 characters of the artist name, or (c) a totally useless time counter in the format of "IPOD0000" with the "0000" showing minutes and seconds.

Just so we're clear here, if you display the album name for Radiohead's Hail To The Thief album, the deck will display "HAIL TO " and THAT'S IT, FOLKS! No album name. No track number. I am not kidding you. When you scroll through the songs, you'll have no idea what the track number is.

From there, it gets worse. Say you want to play "Hail To The Thief," the Radiohead album. On an iPod, you'd go ARTISTS -> RADIOHEAD -> HAIL TO THE THIEF. On the Pioneer, if you go to ARTISTS -> RADIOHEAD, it will play the first Radiohead song it finds IN ANY ALBUM. And it won't tell you what album it's from. And when you scroll through the songs (blindly), it just goes from album to album, treating every Radiohead album on your iPod as one big album.

I find it hard to believe Pioneer expects its customers to tolerate a design this bad. Today I called Pioneer to ask if I was doing something wrong, and the rep actually agreed when I said, "This is worse than useless." He recommended RETURNING the iPod controller and controlling the iPod directly, using only an auxilliary connection between the iPod and the Pioneer head unit, skipping the iPod controller altogether.

To put it mildly, I do not recommend this product.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Works great with pioneer's DEHP6800MP ...
I bought this to accompany Pioneer's DEHP6800MP car radio. It was easy to install and the ipod is easy to manage using it. You get the same menu of the ipod when you want to search for songs (playlists, songs, albums, etc)so you don't have to be learning any new ways to get to your music. Once you get to your songs it's not that of a hazzle to search for the one you're looking if you have your ipod well organized. Summary: EXCELLENT PRODUCT

Order processing and shipping was very fast with DBRoth, I highly reccomend this vendor.

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Buyer's feedback: - I adapt to my needs to listen my musica preferred
I adapt to my needs to listen my musica preferred

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Buyer's feedback: - * Awesome integration, as long as you don't plan on searching... ...
Basically, it's like this: if you have a Pioneer head-unit and an iPod, you NEED to buy this. Now. Not only do you get full control over the iPod, but you get to see the artist, album, song title, time elapsed, time remaining, and progress bar if your HU supports it (my AVICZ1 does). Besides the basic ability to control your iPod through the HU, it looks cool, it feels cool, and it's great being able to glance down and quickly see what's playing.

My only complaint is it's SLOW. No, it's not the head unit that's slow, it's the cd-IB100ii box. Ya see, instead of mounting the iPod as a drive and accessing the database directly (like iTunes does), it connects over a unique serial/analog connection. This is done for a few reasons I'd expect, but mainly so that the iPod is still actually doing the playing (so you can play your protected, purchased music). The downside to this is it takes FOREVER to access, read, and display even a single page of the database. Granted, it's faster than the original cd-IB100, but if you think you can just scroll down to Paul Oakenfold under Artists, you are horribly mistaken. Basically, as long as you only access playlists you've created on the computer, the lag is bearable (as you won't be manually scanning through hours of pages to find your song).

Note, the iPod screen is "locked" while connected, so you cannot get around this by using the iPod to navigate. You *CAN* however undock the iPod, pull up a track, start it playing then doc it again, and it'll continue playing from there.