Trying to connect my ipod classic to Pioneer receiver using a USB port on the receiver. The receiver recognizes it, but the Ipod goes to "ok to disconnect" within seconds. I re-synced the ipod to my imac desktop but no change.
iPod classic
Did this work before, or is this something you are trying for the first time? Is this "Pioneer receiver" for car audio, or part of a living room system?
How is this expected to work? Do you use the iPod to play songs through the receiver? OR, does the receiver access the iPod as a song storage device and do the song playing?
This is a fairly new receiver and I have not tried to use the iPod with the receiver before. It is a living room system that connects to speakers throughout the house. I want to play the songs that are already on my iPod through the receiver to the sound system. The receiver has a special iPod access button.
If this system is designed like more recent car audio systems, which also connect to iPods (and other devices) through a built-in USB port, the audio system does the song playing. The iPod is just there to act as a song storage device, not as the music player. You can probably also connect a common USB flash drive with song files to that USB port, and the receiver accesses it in the same way.
Therefore, seeing "OK to disconnect" on the iPod's screen may be as designed, when the receiver is not accessing the iPod's storage for song files. What happens when you press the "special iPod access button"? On the receiver's interface, look for controls to start playing songs stored on the iPod. OR since this is a receiver, it probably has a source selection control, to choose the audio source. If so, pick the one to use that USB port as the audio source.
stuck on ok to disconnect when plugged into receiver
