I have no problems with the stability of XP. The one under my TV runs
happily along for months without a burp, boot or crash.
The one in the Tiki bar gets started cold and rudely powered off at
the cord level with no problems.
I am seriously thinking about reverting back to a PC based MP3 player
in my car and that will really be hard started and stopped.
(run on an inverter, 130-140 degree start up and just powered off)
I used to run DOS on my car players but the XP in the tiki mar seems
to be running fine and my buddy "Atilla the Hungarian" has written XP
hooks into his DOS based player, still the best MP3 player I have ever
seen. (MPXPLAY)
Cars built in the last 10 years come with all that cool stuff included.
But I do get that you get satisfaction from keeping your antiques
running.;-)
I have a finest kind Blaupunct in my Honda and a similar "in dash"
unit in the Ford. They are not as user friendly as the PC based
player. My wife has a henuva unit in the Lincoln but using it is an
accident waiting to happen.
By comparison, having a business meeting on a hand held phone is
trivial.
My PC player runs off a keypad and if you can touch type on a 10 key,
selecting the song you want is pure muscle memory with virtually no
distraction at all.
Because of the power of batch file scripting, setting up multiple
playlists is easy and you can do it in the house. My car PC will WiFi
with the network while sitting in the driveway.
You can set it all up on the house PC and pull it down from the car.
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