Better Randomization with Dension GW 300?

[scottns]

I have a Dension Gateway 300 installed and I have an external HD via USB attached to it in the glovebox. I have about 11 gigs of MP3s on the drive. I set the CD on the stock head unit to CD RANDOM and let it play. Seems to work well except the randomization is not as random as I'd like. I notice it keeps getting into a cycle were there same songs keep getting selected and I have to skip over all these songs to make it "random" again. Any suggestion to improve this? Maybe I have too much on the HD? Formatted in FAT32 with a typical directory structure of Artist->Album->songs. Thanks.

[bcramer]

That problem exists with all media players that have a randomization feature. The algorithm it uses will eventually pick the same songs and play them over and over. iTunes, Windows Media Player, iPods...it happens with all of them. The same will be true of whatever is being used by your cars head unit.

I don't know of any work arounds other than what you're doing right now.

[Sanjman]

sorry to bump... but how is the dension?? is the ipod interface affected in any way with it plugged to the dension... like dice i think in non-simple mode the interface is slow (although i don't understand the difference between non-simple mode and simple mode)
post some pics!!