CommanderCody

Being a Southern California driver, most of my driving experience exists on the freeways either crusing at 80MPH or rolling along at 5-15MPH in the famous traffic patterns.

It's because of the latter that I get the chance to get up close and personal with this iPod integration, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what causes certain artists and albums to appear as BOLD text on the MFD.

Does anyone know what triggers this behavior?

I have an old 3rd gen 60GB iPod that I have dedicated to my cars for years. I wiped it out and did some testing with various tracks, and it's completely at random from what I've been able to determine. The text as far as it's stored in the iPod and in iTunes does not define characteristics that determine the font for the song title, so the only conclusion I can draw is that it's got something to do with MB's interface.

Do you see Bold text on your MFD when browsing your iPod?

tm4exc

Have you guys looked at the track info available and order of same on your computer. I do PC, not Mac, but there may be something to the organization of the song info on your Ipod when you MP it on your computer. Listening to Israel K singing "over the rainbow" as I type this in. Lots of info on that track!

oknish

I think MFD has to fill a certain amount of space with iPod info so if a track's name/artist is not long enough then MFD "bolds" it to fill the space. That's my theory and I could be wrong.

StevethePilot

No, no, no, no, no, Nish! It's "That's my story and I'm sticking to it!" You keep this up and people will start to think this is the friendliest user group in the world. Dang!

STP

PS Since I can almost do it 'round trip on one tank of fuel ... heh ... I might want to opt in on that SCal roundup!