Meaning can the unit be on, and if I turn the ignition off and on again, still be on?

Depends on how you hook it up. Personally, I hook mine up to always-on continuous power, so that it can run independently of the ignition. You could also wire it to the ignition-switched power if that's what you prefer (some people do).


I remember problems with this on the Mark I so that's why I ask.

My Mark 1 had no trouble wired that way when it was in my Volkswagen, but when I moved it to the Honda, its high-drain starter motor gave the Empeg fits. I solved the problem with some capacitors. The Mark 2 shouldn't have this problem, though, because it'll requires less juice and it'll run on much lower voltages than the Mark 1 did.


If you are playing a song and you turn the player off, will the song start back in the same place it left off, or will it start back up in the place in the playlist?

The song picks right up where it left off, right in the middle.

However, I've seen it get confused once or twice. I haven't been able to reproduce it, or even be sure that's what really happened, but I think I've seen it come up in at the previous shutdown's position marker. For instance. Let's say I come home at night and pull the unit out of the dash, while it's in the middle of playing "Tom Sawyer". When I go back out in the morning and plug it in, it starts up in the middle of "Tom Sawyer, right where it was the night before. Then I drive to work and it plays through a few songs. When I get to work, it's in the middle of playing "Limelight" when I yank it out of the dash. Then when I head out for lunch, I expect it to pick up in the middle of "Limelight" when I plug it in. But it's back playing "Tom Sawyer" again. Almost as if it didn't get a chance to save its state when I yanked it out of the dash when I got to work.

Like I said, this hasn't really happened to me very often, and when it does happen, I'm never 100 percent certain that I'm really witnessing a bug or not, because I might be hazy as to what exactly I did when I pulled out the unit a few hours earlier (did I rewind it to "Tom Sawyer"? I don't remember). So I haven't officially reported it.

Will it remember the order a random playlist was generated, and what songs were played in that list already?

Yes. Even if that bug happens, I've never seen a shuffled playlist get hosed.

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Tony Fabris