Music Keg and Kenwood Head Unit KDC-X591

[DON3k]

One strange issue I've had with my Kenwood / Music Keg since day-one is the fact that if I turn off the ignition, when I restart the car / headunit, and the Music Keg begins playing again, it continues from the song / moment it left off, as it should, however, the Display no longer displays my choice, Song Title, but instead just flashes the playback time.. And, on the remainder of all songs on that Playlist, it will only display the Playtime. Even adjusting the headunit's Display selection to Artist, Album, etc, has no effect.

However, if I go up or down to any other playlist on the unit, it reads and plays that list correctly, and all other lists correctly, even the lists it would not show correctly earlier, just by moving to and from another list, but again the next time I turn the unit off and on again, either by Power or by Ignition, the display goes back to a flashing playtime display. Everything on the unit works fine, and Phatnoise says the DB is fine. I've deleted and rebuilt the DB, checked it, etc, but this behavior has always been there.

Any clues or suggestions as to why this is happening?

[markbowen]

Sounds like a firmware issue to me.  Are you sure you have the last Kenwood firmware update, 13.01?

[DON3k]

Yep, 13.01 Kenwood firmware, 2-digit display, latest PhatNoise (3.92) and nothing wrong anywhere I can find.

[markbowen]

It could just be a quirk particular to the Keg and that head unit.  I also have a Kenwood setup, and while I have never experienced your specific issue, I do occasionally experience random quirks (e.g. head unit displays correct song title, but wrong playlist title) that are also remedied by just switching to another playlist.  I'm afraid I don't have any other suggestions, maybe someone else does.

[VorTechS]

I also have a random quirk that's just started happening (it never used to):

Sometimes when resuming playback on starting the car up, the current track will continue and finish playing and then repeat itself once.  Once it's repeated it'll then move on to the next track.

Oh, that and inconsistently playing the startup sound [but that's definately the box].

[S80_UK]

Sometimes when resuming playback on starting the car up, the current track will continue and finish playing and then repeat itself once.  Once it's repeated it'll then move on to the next track.

This sounds a bit like a "feature" that I see occasionally.  If I turn ignition off at the end of a track, once in a while when I start up the same track will be repeated one more time.  It is as though the box has saved the "play position" parameters at the point where the play-time value has been zeroed ready for the next track but the track number has not yet been incremented. Clearly these updates should be an atomic operation and not be able to be split.  You don't say where you are in the track when this happens to you, but I would assume that it is near the end of the track when the box is already getting ready to play the next one.  More dodgy software I suspect.  BTW, mine is Volvo software, so pretty much the most recent build in general circulation.

Cheers,

Les.

[VorTechS]

I'll have to keep a closer eye on when it does happen, I have a feeling it can be someway before the end of a track.  But dodgy it certainly is...