The alpine is the same. It continues from whatever song you left off at, but on the album versus genre, mix all, etc... it must be in the IPOD itself with an external interface. The other issue I have is that if the IPOD is not used for more than 12 hours, it goes into hibernation and the head unit can't see it. I have to unplug and replug it then everything is good.

Thanks for the info.

~ Jess

BTW: In the roadster there is no room for CD's which would cause me to pull over whenever I wanted to change music...biggest reason I went to the IPOD. Next year's Alpine lineup is supposed to have the capability of an internal HDD with USB interface (manage your music with a thumb drive).