Music for long drives

Oops stuffed up the link , bit new at this.....

Arrgggghhhh.... try this address and check out new stuff.

http://valentinesdaygifts.tesora.com.au

Yep I'm the fool, dont follow me............ ; )

Very cool....just wonder how good the FM transmitter will be. I have ipod and bought a belkin transmitter and it was crap and I tool it back, then I got the real thing that was made for the ipod the itrip and it works a treat and you can select what channel you want to be on. I see this thing has only 7 presets, this could be a bad thing. But let us know the USB thing is very cool though and you can get some pretty large USB sticks these days

swmbo would just love the voodoo knife block....an effigy of me of course....

Can you buy an in dash car radio / cd player that has an MP3 player in it ?
My CD is nearly stuffed from dust intrusion so I am up for some new technology .
Willie

Hiya Willy
We bought a CD / MP3 player that also has a usb port on the front panel to connect to our portable AAA battery powered mp3 player - it also accepts thumbdrives however just make sure the road isnt too bumpy as it could over time vibrate in the usb port and perhaps loosen it.
It also has a seperate SD memory card slot (also on the front) which also makes playing music files from the computer a lot easier - now no more burning mp3 disks for us.....regards Cost $200 0r $300 from Strathfields from memory.....
regards
Teeks

Hi TPM,

You can also buy this item from JayCar for $70. Let me know how it goes as it looks ok and my missus can use her iPod Shuffle.

Andrew

I just bought a new head unit for the Landy (the old one didn't play CD's). It's a Sony CDXGT150 ($249 at JB HiFi) and has an aux input jack at the lower right. That jack is a standard 3.5mm audio type jack so now all IO have to do is plug the iPod (or whatever other mp3 player you might have) straight in - no FM troubles or anything! Sound quality is fantastic as it's a direct connection via a cable. Not much more than some FM transmitters on their own.

I have an EasyMP3 player that plugs into the cig socket and a 1 gig flash card.

It plays 11 hours of music non stop through FM 877 or above

EasyMP3 $69.95
Flashcard $119.00

All from Jaycar

No more screwed up tapes. No more bouncing CD's

Cool

How about something like this one on E-Bay.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5870050985&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:AU:12

Kerrie

I just turn the wife on and tune out, dunno about value for money though!

I think the unit that accepts memory sticks might be the go . Hooking up an i pod means constantly charging it .

Thanks to everyone for you input and thanks to TPM for letting me ask my question on his post .

Willie .

I purchased the 60GB IPOD and the car tuner charger for it, both from the Apple Shop. Reason for getting it from the actual Apple Shop is unlike the retailers that are autorised to sell it they actualyl seemed to understand the product and the mix of bits of equipment i would need to do what i wanted.

I also purchased the base station and leave that permanently wired to my stereo at home.

Now whenevr i travel, drive or want to listen to CD's anywhere i am i ahve all 3,000 plus songs with me at all times.

The quality is fine, only time i ahve a problem is when there is a radio station actually broadcastign on close to the same channel as i have it tuned to, whcih happens in the coutnry a bit i have found as more of them have thewir local information stations down around the 88 - 90 band where i tuned my IPOD to. This is easily fixed by retunign.

The other benefit i have found is that i am now listenign again to a lot of my older CD's that i hadn't listend to for years as i can actually search for them easily etc rather than goig through cd after cd.

I would spend the money on the IPOD if it was me so you dont have to take the computer wiht you to keep loading and unloading CD's. Many other brands only have 512MB of capacity which is only a few CD's rather than your whole collection.

One of the best toys i have bought.

Mark

I have a PDA for mapping and I load a sd card with mp3 and it plays them while also showing oziexplorer mapping. Need a 1 gig card to hold map plus a lot of songs.

Yep would agree about direct cable connection, just dont want to change the head unit yet. Planning to at some point and will give the transmitter to the wife who wont use it out of Melbourne so willbe a far smaller issue.

Mark

Wow

There sure is alot of options out there ! Thanks for all the feedback : )

Very interesting point in regards to the interference of other stations.
I have a 1 GB external hard drive ( size of cd case ) which will hold alot of music
and use only the USB cable to power it from the device/ cig outlet.

Keep an eye out for the review.

Thanks again.

Hi,

We went through the same problem - CD player and CDs, then the CD player started to pack it in after corrugations got at it.

I bought a 40gig iPod then got my daughter one of those mini-iPods.

All our music fits on both - something like 10 000 songs. capacity.

Anyway, what we found was that the ipods are great in the house over the stereo or in the car so we bought one of these:



from here:

Creative Shed

Use it in the car, out of the car, at work. Very portable and the ipod plugs into the cig lighter.

Much easier and portable. Plus - you can cushion ipods against vibration - you can't do it to cd players in the dash.

Regards

Graham

I got this radio last year, Axis.

It has all the usual stuff plus a USB port on the front. Load up a memory stick and it is music to go.

I don't have to change disc's, no moving parts, no dust worries and the music can be change on the memory stick.

Wayne

Why not go with an DVD Playing MP3 player.

It will play more songs than most of you have.

The first DVD I pulled off the shelf has over 1200 songs on it.

3 of them will do a few hours.