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[Ali C]

I have rather a lot of music on my computer but not the actual cds, so having a cd player in my car isnt really practical.

I am wanting an mp3 player around 5 gig, any reccommendations? I also need it to fit in my car, can any normal player fit? if so what cables would I need?

cheery o

[Phatmike]

Just buy a zen micro, or an ipod or something, then get one of these:

http://www.allabouttheaccessories.com/brow...pe-adapter.HTML

(1st link i found, obviously there'll be some in the uk too. :P)

Saves you buying a whole new car unit, and you have the ease of having a normal mp3 player, and sort of a car player that plays mp3s, cd's, tapes, everything. :)

Probably the cheapest option. :-

Mike.

[Tomm]

Or get a CD head unit that has a line-in. Run that into the glove box, and then plug the zen micro or whatever into it. That way you get the best of both worlds, you can also play CDs.

Or buy a CD player that can play CDs with MP3 on. That way you just need to burn the MP3s onto a CD (as plain MP3 files), and the CD player will play them. Should be able to fit around 700mins of music onto one CD-ROM in that way (I.e you can put all your music onto 10-15 blank CDs). I've got a head unit that will do that. I bought it for £50 from Aldi, of all places. Probably not the most powerful of things, but car audio is shit anyway :-

[quick_spider]

I'm not sure for the mp3 player...

but for getting it to work in the car I've found tape adapters aren't all that brilliant - they're quite hissy.

I used to use a radio adapter - you plug it into the cigarette lighter (for power) and into the headphone jack and tune the radio to 88.1Mhz and it comes through okay.

Ideally you want a stereo with an auxillary input, but these are relatively rare and/or expensive.

Jon

[Heatsink]

Another option is to buy a DVD (4.5Gb) player for your car which will fits into the same usual head unit space, plays CDs, MP3s on DVDs etc.

I'd say that a problem with listening to music in your car is that you can't easily browse and select the tunes you want when on the go since it's neither safe nor are the screens big enough to enable easy browsing. You'd have to give up on this and instead preselect albums, or go for the shuffle option.

My home DVD player, even though it has a TV attached, has a very basic user interface that really isn't any comparison to the basic one you'd expect on a simple PC. With the sheer quantity of albums/songs you can fit on a DVD, an easy means of navigating this is a must!

I'm not a fan of the cassette adapters either - they do indeed hiss in my experience :-

Surely the Zen offerings are the best if you want to the flexibility of taking them with you out of the car, although you may need to think carefully about security of them if left on display in the car - so you can access it aswell! You may need to unplug them every time to pop into a service station, or altenatively you could mount them in the glove box. I'd avoid Apple and Sony for reasons detailed in many other threads.

[frika]

If you buy an ipod (or any other portable music player) I would recommend buying this or something similar from Ebay (or anywhere else you know that sell them..)

*click here*

You just plug it into the mp3 player and press play.. Then tune your radio into the set frequency and it picks it up perfectly clear and booms it out the head unit!

You can get other (smaller) ones for cheaper than the one above.. but I'm at college and havent got time to search!

Hope that helped!

Mart

[JTM]

I dont get why poeple want mp3 players in their cars lol!

In my opinion the MP3 cd player always comes out on top.

Your never going to be able to find what song you want WHILST DRIVING out of 2000.

Be far better to get a MP3 head unit and have 200 songs on a CD, so all the tracks are far more accesible

Ive got my sony head unit for sale if you want Ali, linky

Edited March 16, 2005 by JTM

[Ali C]

one reason I want an mp3 player is so I dont have a pile of cds getting scratched, I dont mind what order the music comes, so I wont be searching for a particular sone (I love them all :) )

[RicH_87]

what about one of these?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...5760883149&rd=1

[Frenchman]

I know alpine do an interface for the i pod which allows you to acess your i pod through the head unit. the only problem with this is that you need an alpine head unit. the interface itself s bout £80-90 plus the price of a head unit £170( the cheaper 1's dont support the interface) and your i-pod which even for the mini i pod is about £140 this brings the pacage to around £300

here is a head unit and interface kit

headunit kit

and the interface on its own

interface

another option is to but a hard drive head unit i knwo a few companys make these but they are not cheap again the sony model is arounf £600 if i remember rightly.

Kenwood do a stand alone hard drive, much like a cd changer

kenwood hard drive

hope this helps

Edited March 17, 2005 by halsal

[Ali C]

cheers for the help guys.

I saw on ebay an adaptor that you put in your cig lighter, it has a usb type port which I presume takes memory sticks (or my i pod shuffle).

I cant find the link now but that sounds pretty sweet. Not sure how it connects to the speakers though, possibly through the radio?

anyone know anything about it?