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Alpine forgot how to lead |
July 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer:
Eric
from N. Little Rock, AR
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Despite all the bad reviews I decided to try for myself and hope to get lucky. I have a CDA-7995 and love it. They don't make'em like that anymore
and they have fallen short in other areas as well.
Had the same problems with the clicking/grinding noise along with the no logic of playing music/skipping eveywhere as mention. A call to Alpine and the advice of the update was a glimmer of hope that faded quickly. As previously mentioned it wouldn't load. I tried the unit on my wifes CDA-
9883 with the same pathetic results. I tried with two different jump drives and a third no name with negative results.
I even made sure to check, and adjust to FATS32 which didn't help.(right click on the jumpdrive, and its listed with properties and other options in
windows) So needless to say where Alpine was once a leader with new features and high standards has dropped the ball with the lack of ability to
create such an easy interface to catch up so many of the units that they were so slow to add usb, SD, or other type of media drives to, to keep up with everyone else.
Don't buy this unit, it's a waste of time and money. Even if the price keeps dropping, it still won't work. Crutchfield could proably stand to pull the item, because the hands on research shows it doesn't work. Great quality control from Alpine as well on this one.
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One of Alpines' worst products |
May 27, 2008 |
| Reviewer:
James
from Wellington, CO
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I ordered this unit, installed it, had the same problems as everyone else. It
skipped songs, locked up, and made horrible clicking noises when changing
songs. Other reviewers are correct that it will not remember where it was
after ignition off. I called Alpine, they told me the V10 firmware had to be
changed to
V12 . The process doesn't work, the firmware won't load, (it locks the unit
up also, just like many songs) I returned it to crutchfield for a new one. The
new one has V10 firmware and won't upgrade either (by the way, the
clicking noise Alpine says is the unit "playing" the IDv3 data tags as audio,
or trying to) I bought this, the switcher unit and the Bluetooth unit all to
work together with my changer. They don't!! You can't use this unit and
the BlueTooth unit together, even with the switcher unit, you can only use
one or the other, so if you get a BT call while listening to USB, it does
nothing.. After 15 years of touting Alpine
as the BEST in car audio, I am selling the head unit, this adapter, the BT
and the switcher unit and going with someone else's product.
BTW- Crutchfield support is awesome, helpful and friendly.
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Works Fine For Me |
March 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer:
KYFHO
from Great Falls, MT
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Installation is a breeze! It only took a few minutes to figure out how to
operate the unit (attached it to a CDA 9887). I ran a 20 Gig mp3
player which worked and sounded absolutely awesome! The only thing I
do not care for is if you are listening to a song and turn your engine off, it
does not resume with that song when you restart your car (it reverts back
to the first file on the drive). That was about the only thing I did not like.
Otherwise, it is a nice attachment. I also attached the IPod Cable to my
stereo but have not tried it yet.
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Not enough power |
April 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer:
escobear
from Columbus, OH
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I just received this adapter as a gift late last week, and couldn't wait to try it out with my 120 GB USB pocket drive.
Excitement quickly turned to disappointment as I realized that the USB output from the adapter did not provide enough power to spin the drive. My head unit seemed to recognize the adapter fine as a CD changer, but I couldn't get any further than the "no magazine" message.
The only way this might work for my drive is to purchase a USB y-cable that would draw power from both USB ports on the adapter and concentrate it into the single input on the drive. I'm looking around and it seems like it would cost about $10. I would seriously suggest ordering one of these at the same time as the adapter if you're using a pocket drive like me.
If this doesn't work, I'm going to have to send the adapter back to Crutchfield. No fault of theirs - Alpine seems to have pushed this product for 2007 release before it was truly ready and robust enough to handle many (most?) USB devices.
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April 6, 2007 |
| Reviewer:
reuanah
from Charlottesville, VA
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I was hoping this would replace my burning an MP3 CD each time I wanted to listen to a new track in my car. While I'll probably keep it for the occasional song, it doesn't hold a candle to the playback/search/navigation capabilities of my 9807 with an MP3 CD.
I'd recommend hooking it up and just laying it on your passenger seat for a week or so before going through the trouble of installing it.
PROS: Adapter is tiny/installs easily; comes with a USB extension cord with a flush-mounting female USB port; cool novelty for a few minutes; acquired all 3 drives (1gb/2gb/4gb) I connected to it without problems.
CONS: Does not retain your position when power is cycled; it skips/cuts off songs/or does not play anything at all; navigation/searching is unbearably slow; it's impossible to find anything if you have more than a few songs on your ext. device.
I'll probably leave a little 256MB flash drive in it but I won't use it very often. I wouldn't purchase again.
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