Alpine iDA-X100 Digital Media Receiver

• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 13 reviews
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• 8 stars

  overall great, but the glitches are a little annoying

  by seannydeez on December 19, 2008

  Pros: Love the ease of use, the HD radio ready, the looks, and the ipod controls are awesome, just like using your ipod. I dont know for sure, but I think there is an adaptor to watch ivideos too

  Cons: The glitches.

  Summary: If it weren't for the glitches this unit would be awesome. I am on my 3rd one because the dealer thought it was a problem with the unit since ...

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  Summary: If it weren't for the glitches this unit would be awesome. I am on my 3rd one because the dealer thought it was a problem with the unit since it happened with 4 ipods. I was one of the first to buy this unit. Last time I went back, the dealer told me it's becoming a very common and annoying complaint. Alpine claims they are working on a fix which will be incorporated into an ipod software upgrade, have yet to see it though Baiscally, the unit will stop playing the ipod when it chooses to I'll be driving listening to my ipod and suddenly it will stop and say NO USB, or I get an error code. I then have to reset my ipod and hook it back up which doesn't alwasy work. The other bug is that if you have your ipod on shuffle and hook it up, regardless of what song you were on, the deck will always start at the same 1 song everytime and it doesn't do a very good job at shuffling songs, not sure if that's the ipod or the deck though. I had an older alpine deck with a flip out screen that used a regular ipod adaptor, not a usb which was fairly fast and never had an issue. That being said, you can also hook up this unit the old fashinoned way as well, but you dont get album art and it's not as fast. I did do that and there weren't any issues so the bugs must lie somewhere in the usb connection. Overall though, it's a good unit and makes ipod use easy. One thing I wish they would incorporate for later models is full ipod control with a remote.

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• 8 stars

  Great media player!

  by magicat777 on October 3, 2008

  Pros: Great sound, iPhone 3g works, lots of options and extras

  Cons: Navigation is difficult, settings obscure and hard to find, limited out of the box, needs a lot of add-ons to get full use

  Summary: I purchased this a week ago in order to be able to listen to my iPhone 3g without all the static that comes from the FM transceivers/car adapters. It ...

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  Summary: I purchased this a week ago in order to be able to listen to my iPhone 3g without all the static that comes from the FM transceivers/car adapters. It supports almost all manner of iPods, but technically doesn't support the iPhone.The good news is that we tested it in the store and it works fine...handsfree and all (if you buy that add-on).
  
  The stereo itself is basically a media adapter head-unit with an AM/FM receiver. No CD player built in so you'll either need to buy a CD-Changer of use the AUX input for a different source.
  
  I had the installers run two cables to my arm rest...one for the iPhone and another AUX mini-jack for all my other non-iPod MP3 players. The USB adapter works for thumbdrives and the iPhone and iPod cables...but does not work for other MP3 players. I tested this with an iRiver and a Zune and neither were compatible with the headunit (the devices locked up).
  
  Navigation is pretty quirky and the interface isn't very intuitive. The ability to switch the colors of the face on the fly was very nice however.
  
  Finally, there are a lot of add ons to this head unit. Stock steering wheel audio control compatibility, bluetooth and handsfree, Alpine "Imprint" technology, and any other device that you can think of.
  
  All in all, this head unit has great sound, lots of features, and really amped up the music in my X3. I love it!

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• 9 stars

  The best automobile iPod solution

  by mkmpanic on March 29, 2008

  Pros: Navigation, audio quality

  Cons: no CD player

  Summary: the predecessor, ida-x001, worked horribly with the 5 & 6th generation ipods. i decided to try the new the new ida-x100 and am glad i did.
  
  Alpine improved the layout
  
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  Summary: the predecessor, ida-x001, worked horribly with the 5 & 6th generation ipods. i decided to try the new the new ida-x100 and am glad i did.
  
  Alpine improved the layout of the control keys in the x100.
  
  the unit works wonderfully with the new iPod Touch (32 gig). Album art is cool

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