car mp3 players

[mantrid]

Hello
Dont know much about car audio systems as I generally use what is fitted in
the car as standard. But recently mine packed up and I am looking for a new
system. As all my music that I listen to is on my computer I would like a
system in my car that stores and plays mp3s. I dont need a casette player or
even a cd player. I dont want to have a ipod connected to it by a wire. I
cant find anything that has a built in hard drive and a storage card that I
can pull out of the car stereo and plug into my computer and vice versa to
transfer music. I have tried looking for such a system but I cant find
anything.

Why havnt car audio manufactures thought of this logical step forward and
started producing such systems. Excuse if this is a topic covered before but
like I say Im new to all this.

Thanks
Ian

[MOSFET]

If you buy a head unit that has DVD capabilities (I don't mean necessarily
those with built in screens) as more and more higher-end HU's are
incorporating, you COULD burn all your MP3's to a DVD and play that on your
HU. A DVD can hold about 5 gigs of data so that makes for a LOT (thousands)
of MP3 songs.

Just an idea...

MOSFET

"mantrid" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
> Dont know much about car audio systems as I generally use what is fitted
in
> the car as standard. But recently mine packed up and I am looking for a
new
> system. As all my music that I listen to is on my computer I would like a
> system in my car that stores and plays mp3s. I dont need a casette player
or
> even a cd player. I dont want to have a ipod connected to it by a wire. I
> cant find anything that has a built in hard drive and a storage card that
I
> can pull out of the car stereo and plug into my computer and vice versa to
> transfer music. I have tried looking for such a system but I cant find
> anything.
>
> Why havnt car audio manufactures thought of this logical step forward and
> started producing such systems. Excuse if this is a topic covered before
but
> like I say Im new to all this.
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>

[mantrid]

thanks for your suggestion. Im really looking for the ability to do in the
car what I can do on my PC hardware. ie make play lists. sort and filter by
various criteria etc. I suprised that systems llike this are not readily
availably already. It seems the logical way to go with digital music and
ability to download from internet etc


"MOSFET" > wrote in message
m...
> If you buy a head unit that has DVD capabilities (I don't mean necessarily
> those with built in screens) as more and more higher-end HU's are
> incorporating, you COULD burn all your MP3's to a DVD and play that on
your
> HU. A DVD can hold about 5 gigs of data so that makes for a LOT
(thousands)
> of MP3 songs.
>
> Just an idea...
>
> MOSFET
>
> "mantrid" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hello
> > Dont know much about car audio systems as I generally use what is fitted
> in
> > the car as standard. But recently mine packed up and I am looking for a
> new
> > system. As all my music that I listen to is on my computer I would like
a
> > system in my car that stores and plays mp3s. I dont need a casette
player
> or
> > even a cd player. I dont want to have a ipod connected to it by a wire.
I
> > cant find anything that has a built in hard drive and a storage card
that
> I
> > can pull out of the car stereo and plug into my computer and vice versa
to
> > transfer music. I have tried looking for such a system but I cant find
> > anything.
> >
> > Why havnt car audio manufactures thought of this logical step forward
and
> > started producing such systems. Excuse if this is a topic covered before
> but
> > like I say Im new to all this.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian
> >
> >
>
>

[mfreak]

Look for a HU with a USB-key port on it. Or get an ipod/zen/whatever,
and find a HU with an aux-in port on it.

[MOSFET]

"mantrid" > wrote in message
...
> thanks for your suggestion. Im really looking for the ability to do in the
> car what I can do on my PC hardware. ie make play lists. sort and filter
by
> various criteria etc. I suprised that systems llike this are not readily
> availably already. It seems the logical way to go with digital music and
> ability to download from internet etc
>

Actually, you CAN create directories and sub-directories based on
artist/genre/ect. on your burned DVD-R or CD-R. This makes navigating much
easier if you have a disc with, say, 1500 songs on it. AND I know that my
Alpine allows me to search for a particular song on a MP3 disc by inputing
the title or artist name (though it's tricky to do while driving, but the
capability is there).

MOSFET

[Tnguyen]

Go with Kenwood KDC MP532U. There are several higher end model, but this one
will do just fine. I am currenly using this one with a 20GB hardrive (2.5
in) attach to HU via USB pigtail. Why go with the limitted DVD disc?

"mfreak" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Look for a HU with a USB-key port on it. Or get an ipod/zen/whatever,
> and find a HU with an aux-in port on it.
>