"Larry L Athey" <larryathey.nospam@larryathey.com> wrote in message
>
> In all honesty, an in-dash MP3 player is more of a novelty than anything
> else because of their limited capabilities. If you want an MP3 player in
> your truck, simply get a regular in-dash stereo that has an auxillary
> input and get a portable MP3 player that has a hard drive in it. Hard
> drive based MP3 players don't skip or suffer other shock related
> oddities. You can only store 700 megabytes of MP3s on a CDR, hard drive
> based MP3 players with a 20 Gig hard drive are relatively cheap and you
> can get about 500 complete CDs on one of those using 128K encoded MP3s.
I've got a mp3 CD player in my truck and never thought it was really that
much of an issue. You can easily fit about 100 - 150 songs on a cd in mp3
format, depending on bitrate. The CDs that I've made over the years have
held up pretty well, I was able to make it about 2/3 of the way to the BBQ
on the one CD, and could make the entire trip to Detroit from Chicago on one
CD, while having more left on it so that I could continue listening for
about half of the way back. I've also never had it skip at all, and we all
know how nice Chicago roads are, I'm sure.
I dunno, I guess it's all up to personal preference. Personally, I hate
having other things hanging off of my dash, if I were going to do it I'd
probably use this http://tinyurl.com/3ceb3 instead of something external.
I'd rather have whatever controlled through the head unit if I can, because
it's cleaner looking, and then the digital sound data can go across the
interlink cable, instead of through a headphone minijack plug.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com
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