I bought the Rider's Claw and it works Great for me. I installed it on my right side and can use my thumb to change tracks or to start/stop as needed. I don't think I would like having to look down all the time to control my ipod. With the Rider's Claw I can just glance over and see it easily. One of the reasons I bought the Ultra because I like the gauges up where I can see them in the fairing. I have the 5th Generation Ipod (I have almost a 1000 songs on it) and I can make numerous playlists or just choose my genre and select shuffle so changing songs is not something I have the need to do very often.
Funny how all the bikes are CVO at the bottom - whoever choose to market the sound pod knew that we spend$$$.
I started to just cut a small hole in one of my fairing dash pouches, run the wire down to the accessory plug, set my ipod on shuffle but I am Glad I bought the Rider's Claw - It is very functional looks sharp and adds some extra Chrome
BTW - I am not in any way affiliated with Rider's Claw - it is one of the many products that I have learned about and bought from being a member here on this Great site.