tunepoint query

[h1ghwaystar]

i have a feeling this may have already been covered but i cant find anything so im hoping you can help.

im a newbie to the site and to renault having just bought a 3 door tech run.

this may make me sound stupid but my question is this:

the car came with tunepoint but i can only play my 1st 6 playlists. is there a way round this without putting all my albums into just 1 or 2 playlists?

thanks in advance for your help.

[h1ghwaystar]

anyone?

[renier]

With the Dension Icelink Plus, this is the same.

It emulates a 6 CD changer therefore you can only access the first 5 playlist directly by using the radio or steering wheel controls. With the Dension interface you have a lot of settings you can enter by pressing the 6th key. I'me not familiar with the settings of the Tunepoint interface, but to my knowlegde it's made by Dension as well.

[h1ghwaystar]

not very impressed with this tunepoint unless im doing something wrong!!

buttons 1 - 6 just change from one album to the next therefore only giving me my 1st albums. holding the 6th key switches it to random which will play through all the playlists but other than that i am at a total loss.

[renier]

Didn't it come with a manual?

[h1ghwaystar]

yes it did but it doesnt really mention anything and the standard stereo in my car doesnt particularly look like the ones in the manual in that where it tells you what button does what, mine doesnt. lol

[renier]

What kind of radio do you have?

[Gav]

With my Dension I just have 5 playlists - each has a different style of music (I have 1 for new stuff, 1 for Jazz, 1 for Rock, 1 for Funk, and 1 for Electronica), and it's not too bad to jump a few tracks with the scroll wheel control. If I use the iPod outside the car (very rare) I load the album I want rather than a playlist. Before the Dension I had a 10CD Changer in another car, so had to retrain my brain that it was now playlists rather than albums that get selected.

[renier]

I've discovered that when you select an artist or album before you connect the iPod to the Icelink cable, it will stay in this selection.
So, I usually first select an album or multiples albums from an artist I wanna hear in the car and then connect it to the Icelink. This also works with genres or playlists.

[GTDave]

It is a shame that they cannot get extra information out of the unit.

For example in my old car I bought a stereo for £100 in the halfords sale... nothing fancy, but it had a glovebox ipod connection that when connected you could go through every artist, playlist, album and song by scrolling through, and it also retrieved the Artist and track names etc...

Seing as you are paying £175 for a tunepoint as an extra you would think they would have looked into ways of making it a little better...

Hohum... my car is due to arive a week today with its tunepoint, but rather than taking my ipod in my car I have just bought a memory stick so i can leave it in there... will see how it goes!

[renier]

Yeah, i know what you mean. Pioneer also has a unit with direct iPod control, the DEH-P6900IB. Realy simple iPod controls and all iPod info on the radio display.

I've had that unit it in my car for some time but changed it back to the Tunerlist Cabasse radio again. I like the clean look of a factory fit radio in the dash and do not like to have to take off the radio front everytime I park the car.

[jenko112]

Hi, I have been using a tunepoint for a year now.If you create your playlists into folders on a computer and then drag them on to a usb stick your tune point will recognise each folder as a CD, use button 1 on your stereo to scroll one direction through your folders and button 2 to scroll the opposite way. I have over 30 folders on mine but once you reach folder number 10 your head up display will only show the last digit of your folder number ie number 28 will show as 8, this is a limitation of the head up display. Using the scroll wheel on your stalk will let you move up or down tracks within a folder. Button six will randomise across you entire collection of folders and one of the other buttons randomises your tracks within an individual folder but I can't remember which button it is at the moment. The unit itself is manufactured by Visteon for Renault. Hope that helps.