Just got back from a 2000+ mile trip in Waldo, and a new anomaly has appeared: there's a "scritchy" high pitched sound (but relatively low volume) that comes from the stereo as the iPod loads the next song. My understanding of how an iPod works (this is the Classic with a hard drive), is that, to manage battery power, it'll spool up the HDD and load the next song or two into memory so as not to constanty be reading from the HDD.) And now I can hear when that happens!?! I know that's what it is as anytime I advance two or three songs forward, I can hear it spool up, but if you go back to the beginning of the song that is playing, you hear nothing.

Now why is that all of a sudden audible through the stereo? I hope it's not another "fix" to the software in the car that was done for the window dipper that recently messed up my Blackberry Storm phonebook!

Anyone else ever notic this?

 

I hear a high pitched whine sometimes when the iPod was playing. I never found an exact cause or set of circumstances that would relate to it.

I will have to go back and check to see if that is the exact set of circumstances that caused the high pitched whine.

Unfortunately i may not be able to recreate the senario as i also now have much more in the way of electronics in the car as you can see in this thread.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...-upgrades.html

 

For strange noises like that, I'd check that all the connections are tight. I've had weird noisy issues with plugs which are not well seated.

 

Thanks for the idea! That was one of my first thoughts as well, but didn't fix it.

 

In my case it was definitely not a cable problem, as it would happen some time during the same listening session and i checked all of that.

It normally would only happen at rather high volumes and if i turned down the volume sometimes (not always) it would go away, and it did not happen with the radio, CD, or USB Stick. So it was definitely something with the iPod.

And as my iPod would not hold all the music i have i just upgraded to 1 Tera byte of disk space in the car. That holds all my music plus.