Car laptop audio front end?

["Pete Shew" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried out my laptop in the car as a source of audio, with mostly good
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cess. I used a dummy tape and a power adaptor from those nice people at
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lin (=A310!). Howewer, when SWMBO asked me to skip a track she didn't
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she was not amused by my suggesting that she dug the laptop out from under=
her seat, minding the wires, of course, opening the lid and changing the t=
rack with iTunes - especially as it was 1400x1050 and I've just got her
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o 1024x768, and anyway she didn't know where her glasses were.

So, are there any suggestions as to a way of front ending a PC with a
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e navigation device to enable album/playlist and track selection.
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ly useful assets are the W2K PC, an old Palm, and the ability to write
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ware.

Pete