Originally Posted by Marchitect

One of the things I was really excited about with my new 08 - M5 was the iPod integration. I was so excited to have over 30GB of my music, audio books, etc available to me as I make my long commute to work every day.
FYI, my 40GB iPod has about 1000 different artists to choose from. And that seems to be the proplem.
This eveing I was in the mood for some Stevie Wonder. I tried to access Stevie under the list of "Artists". Holy crap, I was spinning the iDrive controler for about 4 minutes straight, trying to make my way down from "A" to the "S's".
This is a crazy waist of time.
Also, your iPod isn't accessable while hooked up to BMW's USB cable, so you can't use your iPod directly, like you can on a bluetooth phone.
Unless I'm missing something, I can't see how this iPod integration is helpfull at all.
especially if you have a big iPod with 1000's of songs and/or artists.

Hopefully I'm missing something.
Anyone know of a voice command that will help navigate the iPod. such as >Audio - Aux - Stevie Wonder< ???
Or some other trick to get around a large selection of music.

Thanks