Re: MP3 player, new tires

From: Larry L Athey (larryathey.nospam@larryathey.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 16:17:05 EDT


Velcro... :-)

Jon wrote:

> 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
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> one
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>>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
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> all
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>>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,
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> because
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>>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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