Our Bose is from 2001 and we started having the same problem a couple years ago -- it will still work, but is very spotty in finding songs. I told my dh two years ago that we must be able to make an ipod play on a Bose (he didn't think so, but I persisted), and we ended up finding the same solution as you. Our mp3 player now lives on top of the Bose
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