I must admit they look stunning. but what are you really getting over something that just plays MP3s. You can burn about 200 tracks onto an MP3 right?

size, size is what you are getting.....

CD holds roughly 640mb, hard drive units anything - 10GB, 20GB, or more so.

Also, some of the HDD units can be used in the house, so you have a cheap "soundserver" with all your music instantly playable, CD's can be packed away safely.

1700+ tracks in my car at the moment with about 30% free space. No bag of cd's or a discchanger in the boot that you never change :D

At the quality I rip my mp3's at I would only get about 80-90 tracks on a CD so its quite a big difference.

Oh, aye, and having bouncing scrolling text with snow on the display is just fun :D

~Jules

HOW MUCH DO THEY COST?

Mstations were £300 for the unit (10gb) and £150 for a home hi-fi bay for it...

..but if you are after one, let me know as I may be selling mine in the near future.

Ian

Yeah could be interested mate, at the rite price of course.
e-mail me some info and prices please when your ready to sell and we'll go from there

Check out Dension.

80GB player at £399.99 inc that works via:

- aux in
- FM modulator
- CD bus integration to Alpine MBUS, Blaupunkt, Sony and 50+ factory fit

and in a couple of weeks, an in-dash HD/Tuner with removable 20GB drive with USB2.0 connectivity. Also £399.99. CD/Tuner with the same large display to control the existing 80GB player is a £499.99 bundle.

http://www.in-carmp3.com/images/dh101blue.jpg



[Edited by 12LEE - 3/6/2003 5:40:07 PM]

[Edited by 12LEE - 3/6/2003 5:40:44 PM]

Lee that looks nice can you notify me when you have stock...

Willie - you're on the list!

For everyone else out there, we're running a beta trial with about 20 units in 2-3 weeks time and there will be a £50 discount for beta testers. It's really to help us iron out any s/w niggles, etc. We'll set up a feedback mechanism for beta and s/w updates.

We have around 10 potential beta users right now. If you're interested in being part of this, please email me at lee.harris@h2distribution.com.

Cheers

Lee.

are they easy to fill up or do you have to hand enter all the track information?

Most CD > MP3 conversion programs (the process is known as "ripping") will automatically populate the ID3 data (artist/album/trackname/genre) from internet-based CD title databases.

Check out MusicMatch and CDeX for starters.

cool! I still think I need to do some more research tho!