Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

[Mal Lansell <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds intriguing.  Are you sure it was Maplin?  I don't remember seeing
anything like that in their catalogue...

Mal


Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) wrote:

>Mal,
>
>Maplin were selling something similar. It was a SFF computer and
3"
>(guessing) LCD screen & buttons. The HDD was in a caddy so you'd
pull
>the caddy out, put it in your desktop PC, dump your mp3s to it then
slot
>it back in the car. The HDD wasn't huge, maybe 40GB, but enough for a
>couple of songs on the way to work ;-)
>
>I had a quick look on the Maplin site and can't see it now, typical :-(
>Price wasn't too bad either, comparable to an IPOD IIRC.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim H.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mal Lansell  Sent: 15 July 2004 18:01
>>
>>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
>>
>>
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