Car interfaces / HU's that replicate the click wheel for scrubbing

[soulslinga]

I listen to a lot of four hour long radio shows and audiobooks on my ipod. I often fast foward through the commercials in the radio shows, and i'm wondering if any ipod vehicle interfaces or hu's allow you to fast foward through a file without using the ipod.

Basically i'd like to replicate the click wheel so i can scrub or fast foward through a song using a head unit hooked up to an ipod interface (alpine, pioneer, icelink, etc).

Also, i cant afford a huge touch screen

Any ipod interfaces/head units that will allow you to scrub through songs?
MOre importantly, what interfaces will NOT allow me to do this so i wont buy them?

[bighairy]

I would say none will move as fast as the clickwheel. The issue is with the way the head unit must communicate via the Apple interface. I can go through tracks by holding down the advance button, but its not like using the click wheel. I have the Alpine interface.

[soulslinga]

thanks for that. but what i mean is, is it possible to fast foward through a song using any vehicle interface?

is that what you meant by go through tracks, or did you mean skip to the next track?

[bighairy]

Yes, you can move through a track and not just skip to the next. Its quite easy and works in the same way as with a regular CD player (at least on the Alpine).

[soulslinga]

sweet. lemme ask this then: i fast foward through like 10 minutes of audio at a time (the commercials in radio shows). on the ipod its easy to skip thru that much time in a few seconds with the scroll wheel. Would fast fowarding 10 minutes ahead take a really long time on the alpine unit?
cause i know it would on a regular cd player.
just a question.

[audioscience]

Yes it would. Bighairy is right. The Alpine works almost exactly like the scrub on a CD player. It is maybe 2x speed when you hold down the FF button.

An option, although possibly too much of a pain in the ###, would be to edit your radio show into segments and then you could skip to the next track to get to the end of a commercial break. Just a thought and not really a solution.

I don't know how the other HU's work but I'd assume they are much the same as the Alpines.