Re: Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

[Mal Lansell <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Judging by the other suggestions which have been almost, but not quite,
what I was looking for, that might be the way to go.  With a nano-itx
board, and power from the car, and a 4 line serial text display, it
should even be possible to make something that would fit in the space
taken by my old car stereo :-)

Mal



Ben Geach wrote:

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