I've posted about this before, dealer fitted ipod connection will not let me randomly scroll through my 60GB ipod songs, it lists album folders aphabetically and plays them serially. I can stab the idrive controller 4 times, and it randomly chooses another song and thats fine, a pain, but ok. This ipod has no directories in it however, from my pc all I can see is all the songs stored in the ipod root drive.

Recently I got an ipod touch, and copied the same tracks to it using itunes, and now, I see all my songs listed alphabetically, no folders, or album lists, so its as good as random now

What surprises me is that this is not determind by the cars software, but by something in the ipod Strange