[TriLUG] Mp3 players, Linux & car

[Andrew C. Oliver]

And I can still burn data CDs with mp3s as opposed to music CDs and play 
them?

al johson wrote:

>Hey, Tanner, great minds must think alike. I second Tanner's auto AIWA
>MP3/CD player, especially since I have one installed in my Saturn station
>wagon.
>
> I love it. I've noticed just a few annoying things about it, but not
>anything that would drive you up the wall--sometimes MP3 CD's will skip a
>bit if you go over bad bumps in the road, also sometimes when you put a new
>MP3 CD in the Aiwa it apparently gets confused and you get an error message
>(simply removing the disk and re-inserting it almost always fixes that
>problem--this only occurs for me when I change disks, never after the disk
>begins playing, and really not that often).
>
>I would like to suggest a second and third option which are even cheaper
>(although a bit messier): there are a few boom boxes and small CD players
>which will play MP3 CD disks. Our Target store at Crossroads Shopping Center
>has several you can pick from, and they are fairly inexpensive some being
>less than $50. As you probably know you can purchase a special cassette tape
>which you can put into any car radio which will plug into any small CD/MP3
>player or anything that has an earphone jack. Just look for the "MP3" label
>on any boom box or small cd player you might be interested in. Having the
>MP3 files on disk is far superior to anything except a device with a hard
>drive (like Apple's new MP3 player with a 5 gig. drive). Neat thing about
>the MP3/CD route is that you can have just one single MP3 disk which will
>have just about enough music on it to drive from Manteo to Murphy (depending
>on how fast you drive and the MP3 sampling rate :-).--Al Johnson.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org>
>To: <trilug at trilug.org>
>Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Mp3 players, Linux & car
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>>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 13:26, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm finding CDs incresaingly inconvienient, however, I've got a lot of
>>>CDs (so I can't go cold turkey).  I'd like to be able to save them off
>>>as MP3s and use them via an MP3 player for the car.  I have both a tape
>>>player and CD player for the car, but I'd rather an Mp3 player with
>>>maybe a radio interface to avoid the necessity of hookups and wearing
>>>out my tape player (and messy wires are a pain in a miata).
>>>
>>>Is there a MP3 player with a reasonable amount of storage, communicates
>>>via radio and a convieinient interface that I can download music to via
>>>my linux box thats not an arm and a leg?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Actually, what I would suggest is something slightly different.
>>I have an in-dash CD player that plays MP3s that have been burned
>>to CD-R.  The model I have is the Aiwa CDC-MP3 and I notice that
>>Circuit City is currently running a sale on its successor the CDC-MP32.
>>This URL doesn't mention it, but I can assure you this does play
>>MP3s on CD-R and right at the moment, it's only $149.
>>
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>http://www.circuitcity.com/ewebIMa/detail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0782620958.10
>24262126@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadcfhffhikfcfngcfkmdffhdffg.0&catoid=-8864&book
>mark=bookmark_1&oid=51462
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>>The advantage of using something like this is that
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>>1. You can use all your own CDs since it plays regular CDs too.
>>2. You can, at your leisure, move your CDs to MP3s burned on CD-R.
>>3. CD-Rs of MP3s can hold anywhere from 8 to 10 albums.
>>4. CD-Rs can be burned from linux.
>>5. This particular model has a direct input (using a simple headphone
>>   plug)
>>6. Sale price is about the same you'd pay for an mp3 player with
>>   a radio interface.
>>7. Don't have to worry about several different components.
>>
>>Disadvantages
>>
>>1. Won't play tapes directly (but you can add a tape player with the
>>   auxilliary in.
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>>I've been using mine for a year and a half, and I love it.
>>
>>Tanner
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