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 system in either of my vehicles, but mostly it lives in > my Lexus which has the Mark Levinson audio system. It doesn't sound > quite as good as a cd played in the built in player but it's close > enough for me. The cd in the player seems to have a tad more impact in > the low end. > > For those that are interested I built a nice little harness that > connects the ethernet, audio and power cables so I can put the > Squeezebox Classic wherever I need it. It doesn't mount so I usually > keep it on the front passenger seat or on the console. The audio from > the SB plugs into the Aux jack in my console. Of course I have no > control other than through the standard SB interface but that's just > fine for the time being. > > I have a small power inverter that powers both the SB and my Samsung Q1 > computer which has (2) 500g USB powered drives. These drives are USB > buss powered but I also have them hooked up to 5v supplies to take some > of the load off of the computer. There have surely been some issues in > that it takes a bit of time to boot, and when I stop and start the car I > need to reset the power to the SB. Since the Q1 is battery operated it > can keep the drives initialized. > > Before there were large USB drives I actually had a 1tb Free Agent > Drive and that had it's challenges. It took a while for it to mount > whenever I recycled the power. Of course starting the car resulted in a > short term power droppage enough to kill the drive. The USB buss > powered drives were a bit step forward. I just got some 1tb USB powered > drives and I'm currently filing them up. That should make things even > easier. > > I'd think using a Touch in the car will be a big improvement. Now that > I have the 1tb drives things should work much better with the Touch. > I'm still waiting to get one.
... 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 in and/or SD card. Squeezebox in a car makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. None. -- slimfast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
