mp3's in your car?

WhiteWashMan · 15-01-2002 4:24pm #1

some people will go to any lengths to get an mp3 player in their car
http://www.ryanspc.com/carmp3/

strat · 15-01-2002 4:38pm

ummmm complicated
im more of a cart kit kinda guy

po0k · 15-01-2002 5:05pm

Have to say that's great, but with one of these you could have Games too. Just have to get a better LCD screen.
Wireless Keyboard and/or mouse would be good too.
While parked waiting to pick up the kids whip out a quick game of quake........

WhiteWashMan · 15-01-2002 5:10pm

it wouldnt fit in my car

strat · 15-01-2002 5:13pm

mmm traffic jam, vent the road rage with some cake3

Blitzkrieger · 18-01-2002 2:30am

It always amazes me the lengths people go to......

You can get Linux-based MP3 playing car stereos. Most of them are dash-mounted single CD (about 150 songs?) but you can put an auto-changer in the boot. What I'm going to get for my next car though, is a new type which has a 30GB removable hard drive in the boot. Bring it in, connect it via USB/firewire, transfer all your MP3s from your 'puter and you're away. £600 English but it'll come down in price as more are launched.

WhiteWashMan · 25-01-2002 10:35am

http://www.chaos.org.uk/~altman/mp3mobile/

Saruman · 25-01-2002 3:37pm

OK these may be kicking audio systems when they are done but at the end of the day if you just want mp3's why not either buy an mp3 playable cd player for your car or one of those mp3 cd walkmans with a car kit.. cheap and it works..

po0k · 25-01-2002 3:49pm

Yeha, I'#m plannning on doing that, but for the longer term these solutions kickass.
A CD can hold about 240 4min tunes of 128kbps audio (80mins/4 x 12[average compression rate for mp3s against CDs]).
That's plenty for just about any road trip.
Also, what if you wanted to integrate a DivX player in the car? even with 702MB to play around with the quality may not be high enough. What then?

The one thing I'd be worried about is power supply issues.
If you left the box on while the engine was off it would drain the juice pretty quickly.

Lenny · 25-01-2002 3:53pm

Thats great work,
I'd probberly be one of those people doing that when I'm older

Blitzkrieger · 27-01-2002 2:53am

Originally posted by Blitzkrieger
a new type which has a 30GB removable hard drive in the boot.

Hello?

You don't have to go to all that trouble.

Panda · 31-01-2002 7:27pm

Of course you could just burn a couple of cds,
a couple of hundred that is......

ButcherOfNog · 31-01-2002 7:42pm

Kenwood KDC-MP6090R MP3 CD Player

I have this baby, ordered from this site. No problems with it, looks the biz, great sound off it and i can get 15 albums on 1 cd-r

theres a number of other head units avail for mp3 playback as well.

Saruman · 01-02-2002 12:58pm

Nice ButcherOfNog... nice... um Ce mhead Euro?

I wonder does it have a buffer so it loads the mp3 into mem and plays from mem so it does not skip.. only had my cd player skip once.

mp3's in your car?

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