One of the first thoughts I had when I saw the SBTouch months ago was "that would go well in a double din."
That's because for a couple of years I've already been thinking about the possibility of running SBS on a small PC in the trunk or under a seat streaming wirelessly to an iPod Touch in a custom din or double-din enclosure. As long as the UI on the SBTouch is easy to use it could make a wonderful mobile system. I've been spoiled since 2001 having the what used to be the best digital music player on the planet (until the SB3 came out), the empeg Car, aka Riocar. It still does a number of things that SB won't do even with plugins, but at this point, SBS is the best digital music software platform around, no two ways about it. Personally, I like having my whole music collection with me when I'm mobile. An iPod running Apple's software is a popular choice but frankly the UI stinks even just walking around with one, let alone in a car environment. The UI on the iPod touch and iPhone is not much better than the Classic series. My streaming idea would involve a port of SqueezePlay or similar-functioning 3rd party software. I'm not surprised a lot of people will chime in on the SQ issue. I can't speak for anyone else, but the SQ in my car is likely better than the majority of home systems of most posters here. And it's not elaborate by any means. Road noise is always an issue to contend with, but don't forget that you can't and shouldn't compare the noise inside your Honda to someone else's BMW. The difference is night and day. Really. We'll see how it goes with the SBTouch, but I do hope someone takes the plunge to hack one into their car before I do. New child = not a lot of time for fun projects right now. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
