WhiteSTi3

Anyone got one???? I have a Kenwood MP3 player at the moment, but would like this new harddisk model!! wassit like?

alcazar

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I've got Minidisc, and I can download straight from the internet onto a disc for the car. Any good?

King RA

Blaupunkt stereos can be wired up to use the IBM microdrive just like it's a CD changer (not all can do this). I think the microdrive alone is about £500 but this gives you 1gig of tunes. You can buy more drives if you wish and use them like cd's. Quality will be as good as the MP3 is obviously.

SiDHEaD

i've got a Kenwood MP3 head unit. It's ace. I couldn't be doin without it. You can put diff folders on the cd and they act like different "discs", like a changer. The trackname display is also cool. And it never skips (not thru bumps anyway, dodgy mp3s are a different matter!!)

Very useful as i commute 2hrs per day.

Find that after a while even an mp3 cd can get boring so i would be interested in the HDD version too...

Andy

ash1

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Not sure about the hard disk market at the moment for cars, don't forget that it would have to be pretty robust as disk heads need stability unless they were different drive mechanisims geared for road use.

I've got the Alpine 7893 MP3 - cost me £245 from Halfords (price matched with MCS direct) and fitted free too. I can't put enough tracks on it at the moment (reckon I can get about 150 tracks on a single CD). Unit is great - too many features for me to work out.

WhiteSTi3

Sidhead you must have the same Kenwood Car MP3 player as me. Unit is great but you can now get 120Gig mp3 players designed for the car, & usb connection to pc, to copy onto hard disk. 1000 hours of random music!!!

here is the link

http://www.in-carmp3.com

mutant_matt

Actually, a standard laptop hard disc seems to work quite well. Have a look at Chirak's LIMP Project site.

Matt

noodle

You could also try looking at: http://www.ssiamerica.com

They do a line in in-car player and personal players - I really like the Neo Jukebox, looks kinda funky...

SiDHEaD

am i right in thinking it connects via FM? Cos i don't really wanna lose my head unit as its pretty

I have firewire on my pc for DV editing, so shouldnt be too much hassle to copy tracks over


Andy

Esoteric Beast

I have my complete computer system on the back seat of my Scoob, now with the huge hardrive I have and the surroundsound speakers patched into the speakers and subwoofer of the car with one click of the mouse I have music playing continually, without repeating a single track for 3 days.

Trouble is if I drive the car more then 50 yards from the house it pulls the mains plug out the wall and I'm shafted

LG John

Sidhead I have the same MP3 player but can't for the life of me figure out how to work the MP3 part. I've got loads of MP3 files on the computer but don't know how to put them into folders on a disk, etc and get the head unit to read them.

Also, can you take a normal CD and convert it or some of the tunes to MP3 files (i.e. compressed) and then whap them on a disk??

Please help

carl

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12LEE sells these at http://www.ihavetohave.it/acatalog/In_Car_MP3.html

Esoteric Beast

Saxo what software are you using to burn the mp3's onto a disc?

I use cd creator 5 and its a piece of pi55 you just give the folders what name you like and the tracks what name you like and it does the rest

as for cd's you have already save them onto your computers harddrive as MP3 and then burn them onto another disc

davek

i've got the pioneer 8400 n i cant say a bad word about it.it too plays folders etc. and a 40p blank disc has just done a 2 mth stint.
also looks the nutz as i get more comments on that than the car.





oh dear, i think its time for more moddin.

WhiteSTi3

I really wanna HD version though, there are some piccies here

http://www.ihavetohave.it/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=3&DaysPrune=1000&

12LEE

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LG John

I've got easecreator 5 or some gish like that on the computer, came with XP. Will that do the trick? I thought this was used to burn CD's in the convensional sense and not for puting MP3 files onto disks. Does each file not have to have .mp3 at the end? Manual says something about that.

davek

saxoboy,
use easy cd creator but copy your mp3s onto disc as data ( i.e. click on data button when it opens up) not as audio.to convert normal cds into mp3s you will need cdex program which is easy to use and will convert them straight onto your hd compressed and ready to copy.
dave.

Esoteric Beast

Thats it dave you tell him ......Amatuers

LG John

I know, I know, I'm an MP3 muppet!! I'm just so busy trying to fix other stuff on the car I haven't got round to sorting tunes