> Biggest downside is that I'm basically limited to listening
> to tapes in open country between cities since radio reception . . .
I too used tapes for a long time. The problem is, the gas tank
lasts longer than a tape does, so you either listen to the same
songs a few times between fillups, or stop and change tapes.
(I do NOT like trying to change a tape or CD while moving)
Then I found this:
http://www.genica.com/Mp3-Tavarua.htm
http://detroit.freenet.org/~ai651/mp3-cd/
It's a personal CD player that plays MP3 disks. So I make my own
CDs on my computer, and I can stuff ELEVEN HOURS of music on ONE CD!
Pretty cool. The unit isn't perfect, and has some strange
idiosyncracies, but it works. And it's only $100 US.
This was the first portable MP3 CD player ever. There are
better units out there now. See:
http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/featured/portables/?cp=hw_main
Check into playing MP3s on the bike. It's MUCH better than tapes.
(but those units that have memory chips don't hold NEARLY as much
as a CD-R does)
-K
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