Re: Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

["Simon Rafferty" <simonr@xxxxxxx>]

You can wire a wireless PDA to an iPod (via the usb) and use that. Alpine
have just produced a new box to let you connect and control an iPod via an
AINet 2004 headunit. So in theory u could connect an ipod, a wireless pda
and an alpine head unit and do what you want.

Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Geach
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?


Sounds like a fully integrated Carputer is what you want with wireless lan
:-)

> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Mal Lansell <mlansell@f...> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows of such a beast...
> >
> > I was sitting here while burning a CD to listen to in the car on
> the way
> > home from work that it might be an idea to buy a car stereo that
> could
> > play MP3 disks (so I wouldn't have to burn so many disks!).
> >
> > Then I thought why not connect a portable Mp3 player instead - I
> could
> > download music to it and have different tunes each day without
> having to
> > burn disks at all.
> >
> > _Then_ I thought, well wouldn't it be cool if the player had a
> wireless
> > lan connection - I could grab music from my home network before
> setting
> > off in the morning, and not have to keep bringing the thing
indoors
> (the
> > player not the car) to be plugged into the PC.
> >
> > I know I could do this with a Wireless PDA, but is there anything
> that
> > can be permanently fitted to the car that would do that same
thing?
> >
> > If not, there's a gap in the market for someone to fill! :-)
> >
> > Mal