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Boat Stereo with thumb drive update
"Tom G" wrote in message news:OxEPi.7238$pl2.2600@trndny07... "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ps.com... On Oct 11, 9:18?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... 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 enlighten me, Chuck?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. My Grandson was showing off his IPod the other day while we were driving somewhere. He started his IPod and then set my car radio on a particular FM station that he had the IPod set to broadcast to. I didn't see anything attached to the IPod making it a miniature broadcast station. So I'm assuming that you can get something that makes the IPod into such a broadcast station. It worked pretty well. Thank God we both like Johnny Cash or I might have had to make him walk. My dock comes out this weekend, hopefully. The flood waters in August may have bent the pipe that holds it in place as one end of the dock is about 4 foot closer to shore and that pipe is at an angle and isn't sticking up out of the dock as far as the other end. Neighbor had the same problem and his pipe broke off when he tried to turn it out of the river bottom leaving some pipe hidden under water. Can't have that as boaters like to see how close they can get to shore in front of my place before turning around and heading back down river. They're afraid of the sand bar that lies hidden just under the water on the other side of the river. Tom G. A number of companies sell devices which connect to ipod and broadcast on FM band. Primarily intended for automotive market. |
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