YY1 said

I use a USB media library, but because I have so much material it is a royal pain to sift through it.
I'm not a fan of "random" or "shuffle" play. I want to hear what I want to hear.
To me, modern audio playback device selection has always been about the interface.
For a retrofit, I've standardized on a particular model group of Pioneer.
The interface is "better" for a single line one but the "co-equal" reason for selecting that unit, is that it has adjustable input levels for the different inputs. I wish more units had this. Typically the USB and/or AUX input is WAY lower than the FM and CD inputs.

Scrolling/dial turning, and turning...and turning...and turning has gotten to be so painful that I have taken to using smaller capacity USB drives and putting fewer folders of band/album collections on them for use in my vehicles that have these head units.

I actually miss thumbing through a stack of CD's to find what I want.
WAY less distracting than scrolling/dial turning, and turning...and turning...and turning.
I've actually contemplated using a USB drive for each artist...but that creates it's own issues such as what to do with "one hit wonder" songs.

My 2015 Renegade "U Connect" 5.5 is one of the best interfaces I've seen in a newer car, however, it is missing what I consider a crucial operation- that is a "back" or "up" function from the "now playing" menu. this causes me to press five buttons and two, potentially three scroll operations to go from a single artist's first album to their second, and so forth. If that back or up was there, it would be "press-scroll-press".

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