Hello, I'm new to this forum and the latest in car audio. I'm wondering if anyone can help. Do any manufacturers have head units that will display file names longer than 16 - 20 characters without scrolling? My Alpine CDA-9886 won't. I download and listen to many podcasts that have file tags beginning with the recording date, then the name of the file after that. Some of these can be 30 characters in length. What ends up on my display are the same beginning characters for several files recorded on the same date. Waiting for the scrolling to begin on each selection is a pain. I don't want to spend time renaming or shortening all the tags.

After searching through manufacturer's specs, talking to dealers, and doing on-line searches, I haven't come up with an answer. My Philips SA5285C mp3 player has no problem displaying the long file names, but I'd rather keep it simple and do everything through the head unit.

 

I have the same headunit. press and hold the setup button then go to display. it'll say something like text scroll or something like that. make sure its on auto, and not manual. it should then scroll thru the files names