On Oct 11, 9:18?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

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The thumb drive works very well, but I proably need to give it "mixed"
reviews
vs. the iPod option (or learn to use it better).

Once fired up, the digital display on the stereo face shows the title
of the folder (album) selected. It also shows the track #, but only
shows the name of the track after it starts to play.

So I can skip past one album or another on the drive, or fiddle around
until the specific album desired appears in the window. Unless there
are some tricks I'm not using, the iPod would probably make it fster
and easier to find individual albums or tracks.

On the "up" side, there is no dangling wire to mess with and no need
to rig a seperate mount for an iPod. Cost is enormously different, as
a 4.0 GB thumb drive was $30 on sale and a 4.0 iPod isabout 5 times as
much.

I thought itunes had some sort of issue about the songs only being playable
on the computer which downloaded them, and/or the ipod. This rumor comes
from my son, who's way too busy to take the time to explain. Can you
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I own tons of CD's, and I'm using a Windows program to rip the CD's
onto the thumb drive. Copyright shouldn't be an issue, as all of the
artists were paid a few cents apiece when I bought the CD's and I'm
not going to resell or othewise distribute the CD's when I've copied
them. iTunes is not involved in any of this current project- however-
I will say that I downloaded a Wicked Tinkers album from iTunes onto a
CD and it plays on the car stereo just fine. But then again, that's
Wicked Tinkers and maybe they aren't as territorial as some other
labels.