While I'm having a rant about my pet hates (see my Blue&Me thread), I thought I would also put the world to rights about compatibility issues concerning iPods and Blue&Me.
Blue&Me has a lovely feature which allows you to play MP3 tracks through the USB port in the glove compartment. A normal memory stick will do the trick, just copy your MP3s onto the stick, pop it in and away you go.
An iPod will also work, BUT, it will only work if:
1, It is formatted to PC mode, not Macintosh.
2, It is in "disk only" mode.
3, The tracks on it are in MP3 format, not MP4, AAC, or any other weird and wonderful format.
4, The tracks cannot be downloaded from iTunes, as they are copy protected and do not work on the Microsoft based system.
All in all, whilst an iPod is a lovely toy to have, if you just want it for the car, save your money and buy a £6 USB stick from Tesco, it will do the same job.

Is it my imagination or isn't the 'random' feature particularly random. I seem to get the same ones all too regularly.

I know about random 'seeding', perhaps this is the problem.

I know about random 'seeding', perhaps this is the problem.

whats that then? just ive noticed this on my cheapy usb head unit. always seems to be the same tracks in the same order.

While I'm having a rant about my pet hates (see my Blue&Me thread), I thought I would also put the world to rights about compatibility issues concerning iPods and Blue&Me.
Blue&Me has a lovely feature which allows you to play MP3 tracks through the USB port in the glove compartment. A normal memory stick will do the trick, just copy your MP3s onto the stick, pop it in and away you go.
An iPod will also work, BUT, it will only work if:
1, It is formatted to PC mode, not Macintosh.
2, It is in "disk only" mode.
3, The tracks on it are in MP3 format, not MP4, AAC, or any other weird and wonderful format.
4, The tracks cannot be downloaded from iTunes, as they are copy protected and do not work on the Microsoft based system.
All in all, whilst an iPod is a lovely toy to have, if you just want it for the car, save your money and buy a £6 USB stick from Tesco, it will do the same job.

John,
You're not supposed to be telling us about the Tesco one when you have lovely Scorpion USB memory sticks for sale 

Seriously, thanks for clearing that up; not being familiar with how the interfaces work, I was just wondering if a simple memory stick would work rather than buying an MP3 player - and I'd have no need for one other than the car - so that's good news. Thanks.

How well does an iphone intergrate with blue and me?

theres a sticky about that already mate

http://www.abarthforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,67.0.html

i tunes can do the converting to mp3 from there acc files.

Chumley is right John, tut tut. Hit the edit button now! .

Put into google, "AAC to MP3" and it will turn up a million bits of software that do the job.