I had to charge the Archos for a couple of days before it would spin up. And it needed a weird USB cable (large A ends on both ends). But I got the MP3s moved into iTunes on the Mini without incident. I spent a couple of hours, off and on, grabbing album cover art, making the naming convention consistent, etc. About 22 GB of stuff at the moment.

Sunday I installed the iPod interface, and the mount. It wasn't too bad. The interface box wouldn't fit behind the radio, but I was able to push it up behind the glove box under some foamy stuff without incident. Routing the cables was pretty easy.

I spent a few minutes trying to get the iPod to play, but nothing much happened. The display changed, and the head unit knew something was going on, but no sounds. Eventually it locked up and wouldn't turn off even when unplugged. :-(

I did some Googling and found out how to reset the iPod. It fired right up afterward.

This morning I tried it in the car again and it worked perfectly. Woot!

I should have done this long ago...

Cheers,
Scott.