Reply to "CD Players"

Momma bought me an iPod for Christmas that holds 30 gigabytes of music on it, which Apple claims will hold 7,500+ songs on it. While I am watching TV in the evening, I put my CD's in the laptop and using the supplied software called iTunes I can copy an entire CD onto my iPod in about 2 minutes. So far, I have loaded about 600 songs or 2.2 days of continuous music.

They make hundreds of different adapters that will work on most brands of car stereo units, some that are hardwired into the vehicle and some that broadcast over an unused FM frequency. I have a Kenwood radio in my car and I have ordered an attachment that plugs directly into the radio and the artist, title and other song info will show up on the radio.

Apple has a website called iMusic where you can purchase individual songs for $0.99 or an entire CD for about $7 - $10, they claim to have over 2 million songs available, There are some websites where you can still download free music from although I have heard there have been a bunch of computer viruses associated with them. I haven't downloaded any music yet, I am still working on my CD collection.

While I agree there may be some loss of range due to the compression of the files, it is not something that either my unsophisticated hearing is able to detect and certainly not something you would notice with 400 horses chattering behind your head.

My goal is to have enough music loaded on the iPod that if I am able to drive the car from Florida to Vegas this year I can hit "shuffle play" when I leave Gainesville and not hear the same song twice till I pull into Vegas.

doin' the iPod shuffle
Gary #06984