peter;298048 Wrote: > SumnerBoy wrote: > > I have often wished I could access my SqueezeCenter music library > from > > my car, usually when driving along listening to the rubbish on the > > radio. I did read of someone who setup their car with a low power PC > > which would wirelessly connect and sync with their home network > > whenever if came into range (i.e. in the garage). It would sync up > the > > library ensuring your car library was always up to date. This seems > > like a pretty good solution. This doesn't give you SqueezeNetwork > > access but that could be easily added once decent mobile broadband > > becomes available. > > > > I agree that cost would be an issue however with something like > this. > > Nice to dream but. > > > > I think memory and head unit technology is about to fix this problem > for > us. I've been using an iRiver 40GB mp3 player in my car for years. It's > > quite handy with a remote that I've stuck to my dashboard with velcro. > > The device itself lives permanently in my glove compartment. > > An SD card that holds 16GB can be bought for a little over 100 EURO's > these days. Once these things start hitting 64GB they're becoming big > enough to store my collection (converting FLACs to MP3). Now we just > have to wait for head units with SD slots to become common place. I > don't need much in the way of user interface. Just display track title > > and artist, allow me to skip songs and toggle between shuffle and > straight play is enough for me. It's all I do with my iRiver. > > Regards, > Peter
Two other alternatives already on the market: - Slacker Player (but it's audio thru FM so I'm wary of the SQ) - Car head units with built in USB I have a Pioneer head unit with a hidden (rear) USB cable that sits in my glove box. Currently I'm running an Iomega e-go 160gb HD which is USB bus powered. Most of the current USB head units including the Pio's are limited to MP3, WMA (lossy) and AAC. But there are a few like the Alpine that will accept uncompressed WAV's via USB. I'm sure more mfr's will incorporate WAV and other uncompressed formats via USB in the near future. -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47094 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
