Beann50 wrote:
One of my reasons for stuffing the SB2 in the dash of my car was to be
consistent with all the other places I listen to music. Now if I go in
my living room, bedroom, office, or car I can listen to anything in my
music collection in the same way. I don't have to stop and think what
button to press to do a certain task, or is a certain song available.
The only thing I ever have to think about is what song to play.
I also only use flac files. You can argue that you wouldn't be able to
tell the difference between flac and mp3 in a moving car, but at least
this way if I listen to older music that wasn't recorded that well I
know the limitation is the actual music and not a poorly encoded mp3.
Actually, I shouldn't say older music since lots of recent music is not
recorded very well either. I don't expect to ever see a system designed
to work in a car that will support lossless files, have a large amount
of storage, and sell for a reasonable amount of money. Too many people
have embraced the whole "buy a crippled song with DRM and no physical
media for just as much money as a CD" idea.
I agree. I have an iRiver H140 40GB mp3 player running Rockbox in my
car. Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for iRiver and iPod players
that supports Ogg and Flac and most of the other stuff:
http://a213-84-196-8.adsl.xs4all.nl/auto/full.jpg
http://a213-84-196-8.adsl.xs4all.nl/auto/console.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H140
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox
I've been trying to sell my idea for an economic ( < $100? ) and
practical car player for a while, but no-one seems to be buying it. The
idea is to create something like an H140 without the (expensive) tiny
hard disk. Just a (cigarette box sized but flatter) display with some
buttons. It has 12v power in, line audio out and a USB connection to add
a commodity external USB drive (the type that costs next to nothing, can
be synced with you main library easily and fits in your glove box). The
hardware must be easy and cheap to put together, since the components
are shared with lots of other players. The software is taken from the
Rockbox project, where people are enthousiastically developing it.
Adapting it to the Squeezebox navigation can't be that hard (if that's
really needed).
Add a $100 USB 100GB harddisk and you'll have your FLAC/WAV/MP3/OGG
player for a lot less than the price of a new SB3. The free and open
software will give it the same kind of appeal to third party developers
and the community as the other SD devices.
I would buy one in a second!
Regards,
Peter
_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
