I have to agree with Josh here. I'm actually lusting over the 20Gb iPod
right now, but I wouldn't put it in the truck because I don't like things
hanging off the dash either (especially since, beyond being asthetically
displeasing, they can become nasty little projectiles in an accident).
-Jon
""Josh Battles"" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote in message
news:c9nd5r$8d9$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
>
> "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
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>
>
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