I have a question regarding the SB Touch I hope someone can answer.
With a SB Touch installed in a car and with its WiFi capabilities, could
you be sitting parked in you garage with the SB Touch connected to your
home network and then transfer music from your home network to the hard
drive
I just thought I'd do a follow up on something I mentioned earlier in
this thread. I mentioned that the Squeezebox in my Lexus didn't sound
quite as good as when I played the same CD directly from the in-dash
player. Once again this is a Mark Levinson system in the Lexus.
Well I've been
jtf;486390 Wrote:
Maybe it is so people that really care, will want to buy the Harmon
Kardon in-car iPod navigation accessory? That thing is ridiculous too. I
doubt that, there's a plethora of accessories to facilitate the usage
of an iPod Touch/iPhone in car.
I'm currently using this:
Great thread here.
I've toyed with the idea of putting a Slim Devices player in my car
ever since my first SliMP3 but have never done it.
I would be fine using my iPod touch in the car... IF IT WAS USABLE IN
LANDSCAPE!!! For years I have been annoyed at the ridiculous cover flow
of the iPod
bucaso;482470 Wrote:
Will you be able to mount it properly i.e. instead of or extra to your
Head Unit or it will be via some kind of harness etc.,
Best Wishes
David
Probably a harness so I can send it's output to the Aux jack, though I
won't really know the details until I get one and see
I became interested in adapting the Touch for car use after looking at
what's currently available in the double din mobile sound market. The
biggest turn off for me has been the available GUIs, many have a 7
display, but still haven't figured out how to display cover art and
album/artist info
Merlinwerks;481188 Wrote:
Considering your looking at $700+ for a decent DD unit, adding the
touch to an exisisting $250 HU seems like a reasonable compromise,
especially if you enjoy a bit of DIY with your audio...
Sadly it's the DIY bit I'm not too good at!
Best Wishes
David
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dsclar;480354 Wrote:
It's not easy, that's for sure. I generally play albums so I don't have
to change that much. I can operate the remote without looking as far as
advancing songs and that kind of thing, but picking albums or songs is
obviously more tricky.
I have a nice harness so
bucaso;480160 Wrote:
Doug, just as a matter of interest, I'd be intrigued to know how you
actually operate your set-up in terms of practicalities, whilst driving,
i.e. choosing music, changing to another playlist or set of files,
whilst concentrating on avoiding all those other drivers doing
gorman;459191 Wrote:
What about the fact that iPod interface is definitely not steering
wheel distance friendly?
I've not had one idea for an app that has not already been made. :-).
Try PlaySafe. Works for me.
A 32gb iPhone 3GS is fine in the car. It'd be nice if it was larger
capacity and
pfarrell;479806 Wrote:
dsclar wrote:
But an ipod won't play FLAC files natively, and even if it did I have
1TB drives filled up with high quality music rips. No mp3's for me
other than a few very old things and some old baseball game rips I
made.
This is silly. My library of 800+
dsclar wrote:
Well I'd have to respectfully disagree. I can surely hear the
difference between mp3's and flacs in my Lexus with the Levinson sound
system. Of course XM radio sounds even worse than many mp3's but I can
surely hear all the processing they're doing. If you can't hear the
... I already wrote what an iPod is lacking.
Decent on the fly management of playlists. I can't tell an iPod, while
I'm listening to a song, I want to hear this song next.
Decent replaygain support. The fact that Soundcheck uses only track
gain makes it pretty much useless to me.
A WELL
gorman wrote:
Why on Earth no company has introduced a slot in iPod
loader on their headunits is beyond me.
Probably because its a very price competitive business, and Apple
charges a lot for the license to make a iPod accessory
And, while the iPod/iPhone is hot today, the car business moves
slimfast;479872 Wrote:
Why on earth is FLAC important in a _car_?
Is your car so amazingly quiet and your ICE system so fantastically
hi-fi that you are seriously telling me that there is some sort of
noticeable difference between FLAC and high bitrate AAC (on an iPod)
when plugged into
I agree with dsclar on all this.
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Themis;479995 Wrote:
I agree with dsclar on all this.
Thanks Themis,
Regardless of whether one can hear the dfferences between lossy files
and lossless files in a car environment can we agree that one can
certainly tell the difference in a home environment?
Now keep in mind that I have never
dsclar;480048 Wrote:
Thanks Themis,
Regardless of whether one can hear the dfferences between lossy files
and lossless files in a car environment can we agree that one can
certainly tell the difference in a home environment?
Oh, but I do suppose one can hear the difference between a
dsclar;477030 Wrote:
Why not? I've been using a Squeezebox in my car for several years now.
It works great. I agree it is a bit of a kluge but it's awesome to have
4000 albums available whenever I want to listen to them and they all
play back with uncompressed audio.
I can put this
slimfast;479567 Wrote:
... or you could just use a small portable mp3 player like an iPod and
hook it into the aux-in jack of a suitable ICE headunit.
Or get a headunit that supports iPod directly giving you an interface
on the dash, less fiddly.
Or just get a headunit that supports USB
dsclar wrote:
But an ipod won't play FLAC files natively, and even if it did I have
1TB drives filled up with high quality music rips. No mp3's for me
other than a few very old things and some old baseball game rips I
made.
This is silly. My library of 800+ albums, all in flac is well under
JJZolx;459163 Wrote:
I wasn't really trying to be funny. I think the Squeezebox Touch is a
very poor choice for such an application. There's now a 64GB iPod Touch
available (for about the same price as an SB Touch and external hard
drive) and for just $249 the 160GB iPod Classic can store
I'm interested in seeing this myself...
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Are these pictures still available somewhere?
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gorman;460325 Wrote:
.. I guess someone could set up some sort of a business by creating
adapters to this purpose.
A 500GB 2.5 USB drive and we'd be good to go.
Dreams... :(
One of the regular contributors on here (iPhone?) has posted pics of
his SB car install, very cool indeed.
But,
gorman;459655 Wrote:
LAME is not natively gapless. Vorbis and FLAC are.
LAME is not a format, Vorbis and FLAC are :) You're right that
bog-standard mp3 is not gapless, but the LAME gapless headers are pretty
well understood these days, to the point of being a standard.
I somehow doubt
gorman;459612 Wrote:
Is this why every car manufacturer offers built-in sat navigation as an
option? Because *the market* is satisfied with Tom Tom and Garmin?
Because it lets them sell a $200 upgrade for $2000, and people seem not
to understand that in most cases a Garmin/TomTom is
radish;460176 Wrote:
My understanding from when iTunes/iPod started doing gapless (which was
a while ago) was that iTunes parsed the LAME headers when you imported
the file and then wrote it's own tags/db entries/whatever. The iPod
itself wasn't reading the headers directly. Whatever it
Goodsounds;459417 Wrote:
It's overkill, the market is perfectly satisfied with car audio systems
that allow people to easily connect the portable players they already
own.Based on what sort of market research? Is this why every car
manufacturer offers built-in sat navigation as an option?
all versions of LAME since at least 3.90 (or even before) do gapless
mp3. I too have no problem with gapless mp3s (created from FLACs, ripped
from CDs, downloaded from Amazon, LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVE (concerts) etc.)
These play correctly on my IPOD, in itunes, in foobar, and on my
squeezeboxes.
LAME is not natively gapless. Vorbis and FLAC are.
That's why the header info you are referring to is needed. And it needs
a player capable of interpreting it.
I somehow doubt that iTunes import functions rely on LAME headers for
doing gapless on iPod. I think iTunes analyzes all the music with
I don't see why a SB Touch (or derivative thereof) is a poor choice for
the car. I'd really like the convenience of maintaining my music in
just one file format (flac).
MS
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gorman;459191 Wrote:
What about the fact that iPod interface is definitely not steering
wheel distance friendly?
I have a 32GB Touch mounted in my car... but the standard font size of
the Now playing screen has been thought for 5cm use, not further than
that.Also, what about the fact that
gorman;459337 Wrote:
Also, what about the fact that gapless playback is not necessarily
perfect unless you rip inside iTunes? If you go the FLAC---Nero AAC way
you are not guaranteed perfect gaplessness.
FLAC-lame works just fine for all my gapless stuff (and I have a
LOT!).
What about
I'd love to have version of the Touch in my car and have access to most,
if not all, of my flac library. I wonder if we will ever see a version
adapted for in-car use? Or is this just too far removed from Logitech's
product development pipeline. In which case a DIY job may be
feasible?
MS
One of the SB Touch beta testers (forum username: iPhone) has been using
the SBT in one of his vehicles. Says it works great. I don't think he
has posted any photos yet, but he has posted some information about it
in the forums, which you should be able to turn up via a search.
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aubuti;458996 Wrote:
One of the SB Touch beta testers (forum username: iPhone) has been using
the SBT in one of his vehicles. Says it works great. I don't think he
has posted any photos yet, but he has posted some information about it
in the forums, which you should be able to turn up via a
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JJZolx;459122 Wrote:
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To funny Jim! That is definitely a Touch in a car, iPhone Touch that
is.
Yes, I am using my Squeezebox Touch in my Expedition. I have a DC/DC
converter that supplies 5VDC at 4 amps to
I wasn't really trying to be funny. I think the Squeezebox Touch is a
very poor choice for such an application. There's now a 64GB iPod Touch
available (for about the same price as an SB Touch and external hard
drive) and for just $249 the 160GB iPod Classic can store more than 2000
albums in
What about the fact that iPod interface is definitely not steering
wheel distance friendly?
I have a 32GB Touch mounted in my car... but the standard font size of
the Now playing screen has been thought for 5cm use, not further than
that.
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JJZolx;459163 Wrote:
I wasn't really trying to be funny. I think the Squeezebox Touch is a
very poor choice for such an application. There's now a 64GB iPod Touch
available (for about the same price as an SB Touch and external hard
drive) and for just $249 the 160GB iPod Classic can store
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