Good device me great weaknesses in the MP3 management

To evaluate the Alpine IDE 178BT, reminds me a bit difficult. Based on appearance, the sound and the overall functioning and the Bluetooth, I would give at least 4 stars. However, it seems with the MP3 management differently, because I tend to get a maximum of two stars - and for the following reasons:

- It is "at the start" is not possible to display the folder in which you find yourself, or to navigate from this further. By "folder / song forward / backward" but of course already just not the case that I can see the folders and their names themselves. The radio remembers only the last position in the song and if I want to browse through somewhere, I always start in the root directory

- The Schuffle ca takes 35 songs in front and at the one located on the position straight and schuffelt this through before it then takes another 35 in each direction. So you have only about 70 songs, is the geschuffelt what does not make sense or fun for larger folders or disks. The most annoying is the fact that the radio is switched off when not realize what it has already geschuffelt from its 70 songs list. This means that when an Order with 30 songs on Schufffle in several short trips (shopping in the city, for example), it can happen that I hear the same 4x 30 songs because I had four times the radio

- Browsing through folders is also badly solved. There is no alphabetical subdivision, but after a lot - controlled via the radio preset buttons. There are 6 preset buttons and therefore the media in (presumably) the same size blocks is shared, the beginning I can select each of the preset buttons.

Now if you operate the radio with a USB stick with not many songs and folders, provides the whole probably not see a problem. I run it but with a hard drive and therefore have many folders and songs. This makes the radio for me a test of nerves and currently - after one year - I am considering to buy me another one. The only thing that is positive by this type of MP3 management: Since the radio the disk does not need to read only, it will start almost immediately at the start at the point where it has stopped. However, I start a waiting time of 30 seconds would be better than "price" to better manage ...

As my view the MP3 administration is important, this outweighs me in the vote, which is why I give 2 stars.