MY10 R36 - upgraded 9W7 Stereo AVRCP Bluetooth works a charm!

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Yes, you are right, 9w7 is the best as I said and iPhone IS much faster in any aspect. Browsing the music on the large SD card sometime is a nightmare. Maybe I should connect my old iPad Classic to the MDI. Will the iPod Classic drain the battery if I left it connected to the MDI all the time? Any experience? I have not tried yet. Cheers.

Yes the main issue with running Ipod classic off MDI is that if you don't run it for a couple days the ipod battery does go flat and you have to unplug it an plug it back in again to get it start up.

For what its worth a large hard drive with a music id3 file structure is simpler.
Im using id3browser to automatically catalogue my music on the HDD and create folders for id3 (m3u) based browsing, very similar to what the ipod classic does. It creates artist, album, genre, year and a whole bunch of other customisable id3 folder structures that you would navigate exactly the same as on the ipod classic with alphanumeric indexes and it doesn't matter what your music folder structure is because your using the id3 based folder structure to find your music... when you find what you want, you select the m3u playlist and the RNS 510 loads it up an plays the files in the playlist even if they're in completely different folders.

I also have custom playlists with favourites, newest etc in a separate folder I created using jriver which I use to sync with my music server. Jriver copies and syncs all the music and my custom playlists across to the HDD and then I run id3browser to create my id3 based folder structure. I'll post some pics later so you know what im talking about. Its pretty cool as an alternative to an iPhone or ipod, but as I said that's the old way of doing things now, and I will only update the HDD once a month or so now I can stream everything and navigate my music much faster on the iPhone either by touch or with siri.

I can say "play similar songs" to siri or "play more by this artist" and siri will change the iPhone playlist on the fly with out doing more than holding the home button for a couple seconds. It accesses whats stored on my icloud Match account and streams everything so I don't even need to load the iPhone up with music.