Pocket hard drive based MP3 players can be purchased for as little as
$115 these days. I have an Alpine stereo in my Dakota with the line
input cable and a power supply line that reaches down to the little
pocket next to my gear shift, so the thing isn't just hanging around in
the pickup. I even use Velcro to keep it in place. I would have bought
an in-dash unit capable of playing MP3s if it wasn't for the fact that I
would always have to burn a new CD whenever I wanted to add just one new
song to take with me. Whereas with my little Archos MP3 jukebox, I just
have to synchronize it with my computer and I've always got all of my
music with me.
Everybody has different preferences, I just prefer to eliminate the
inconvenience of burning CDs. I can sync my whole music collection on my
MP3 jukebox in less time than it takes to burn a CD and I've got a lot
more flexibility.
Josh Battles wrote:
> 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.
>
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