Ge0

Hello all. My sole purpose for this post is to ultimately add a massive music server to my vehicle. It is a 2004 Dodge Durango Limited with factory equipt CAN-BUS based navigation head unit. I don't want to yank the head unit out to add another option. It integrates well with the vehicle and is easy enough for my wife to understand. That, and a rear seat DVD player and Satellite radio connect to it. I don't want to loose control over these.

So, How can I control a Carputer using some interface to the Factory Nav head unit?

Option 1.) I can buy an ipod adapter that will allow the head unit to control an ipod. TO begin with, I could buy an ipod and be done with it. However, I want to put my ENTIRE music collection on this sucker in a lossless format. Not just a portion that is highly compressed. I'll need a much larger storage medium in the near future.

The nice thing about the ipod adapter is that it will allow me to not only control the ipod from the head unit, but, display time, track, and artist information as well. This is HIGHLY desireable.

Here is the golden question. Is it possible for a Carputer to emulate an ipod and fool the adapter into thinking it is a 500 gig ipod device?

Option 2.) Some other box that will bridge the gap between my head unit and a Carputer. I'm not sure if this exists. Where can i go to find out?

If yet another option exists, please by all means let me know. Keep in mind, I DO NOT want to mount some fuggly controller or external display on my dash. My vehicle comes equipt with an auxilary audio/video input. if I could settle on this, I would not be asking these questions. I want a clean looking vehicle without dongles and dinkuses hanging all over the place.

Ge0