I just drove about 800 miles over the course of two-and-a-half days and brought my iPod in tow.  Unfortunately, I don’t yet have the “iPod your BMW” part installed, so I used the Monster iCarPlay Wireless - FM Transmitter instead.  The overall experience was pretty good – static would only be introduced if the station you were tuned to was also broadcasting locally, and it seemed that as you drove different locations did have local stations broadcasting, forcing you to switch channels.  Once the part is in and installed, this will be a thing of the past.

Having 2,208 songs on the iPod and putting into shuffle play is quite a fun experience – though you can do this with any digital audio player out there.  But just letting it cycle through music randomly was a great way to gain exposure to lots of different styles and types of music that I wouldn’t normally listen to.

My next step is to get into playlists and begin organizing music the way I want to listen to it rather than always listening “by album.”