Way of allowing car stereo to control playlists

I don't know if anyone else has figured this out but I thought I would post so others could enjoy.
I got the ISIMPLE ipod interface for my honda civic and hooked it up to my new 80g ipod classic. It sounded great and the seek buttons advance to the next song, but there was no way to control playlists. The click wheel on my ipod stinks compared to my 1st gen ipod, so I tried to find something else to take care of playlist selection. Every remote out there for car applications don't have playlist selection (Or they are hard to use, or they don't work with the classic). So...Here's my fix:
Using coverflow, the Isimple interface allows the seek buttons to change from album to album. While in a song, hit the menu button, which returns to coverflow then seek through to find the album you want then hit the middle button to get to the songs, then hit the middle button again to start the song.
So...Convert your playlists to albums instead. To do this go to your library and right click on the songs you want, click info and then change the album to the same thing for all the songs you have selected (Make sure the artwork is the same, or you'll get a few different versions of the album.
I tried this last night and have been enjoying an easy safe way to change music lists in the car...Hope it works for you, and sorry if someone has already figured this out.

Uh. sounds like a good way to screw up your song library to me. I don't think you want to tag your songs to the wrong albums. Or maybe I am misunderstaning your methodology.

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Message was edited by: slippydrew

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