Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

[Mal Lansell <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost - it doesn't have the wireless LAN, though (which is needed for
added "cool" :-)
I'd have to take the HD to the PC (although I guess that's not too big
a deal if the drive holds the entire collection!)

Mal

Mark A Wright wrote:

>Sounds like you are talking about an MStation
>http://www.techwatch.com.au/reviews/hardware/mstation_car/
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>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
>  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 8:16 AM
>  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?
>
>
>  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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