RE: TI-H: empeg player
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RE: TI-H: empeg player
Well, I've already built a car mp3 player.. sort of a cut & paste thing,
really... I took a CD-ROM drive that I had sitting around, found out it can
read RW CDs, built a small LCD screen for it, and popped that in the car...
:) Takes up about the size of a motherboard and a CD-ROM drive. I chose
using bootable CDs, since you can just omit the HD completely, and cut down
on size & cost dramatically. Plus, since you don't need to worry about bumps
with CDs (bang a hard drive head when you go over a nice foot deep pot hole.
Oops! :), and they're rewriteable, so I don't need to use a new CD for every
song I wanna update. I made a small controller that is with the screen, so I
can do the necessary next, prev, play, stop, pause, etc... and all this runs
under win95(unfortunately. I couldn't find a player that would let me get
ID3 tag info, and the current playing time under linux... I probably
could've made my own mp3 decoder, but, I'm lazy.) I made a nice 8 MB RAM
drive for swap files, and with the 80 MB of el cheapo ram that's in there,
(2*32, + 2*8), it has enough for a LARGE buffer with the player. I've been
using it for about 3 months now, haven't had a problem with it... I just
take out the CD when I want to update it, and throw it back in when I wanna
play. I figure that I probably spent about $250 total (70 for the
motherboard, 40 for the CD, 80 for the ram(only 72 pin fast page... It's
only a Pentium 133 in there.) and other miscellaneous things lying around my
house (the extra 50 for the screen, controller, power supply, wires, etc).
But, so far, I have no complaints... but GPS would be nice.. :)
-jeff Dezur
jeffd@wwnet.net
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of David Knaack
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:29 PM
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: empeg player
From: Dan <danti@applecyber.dyndns.com>
>Too bad no one is making them though... I mean... all those companies need
>to do is throw in a 6gig 2.5" drive and an LCD screen and they are set.
Yep, all I ask is a ~2 GB shock mounted drive that can be attached to a
computer
somehow (preferably by pulling the entire deck and connecting it to the
drive controller
in the computer), and some way to store play lists so I can select amoung
them, just
as if I had a CD changer. Heck, you could make one of those to go int he
place of
traditional CD changers, just give it the same kind of interface to the head
unit, but
give it a big HDD instead of CD's. Then you dont' even have to worry about
interface,
the user can plug the box into the computer to put songs on and arrange
playlists.
Forget all this fancy stuff, I just want a simple (ie affordable) device to
put in the car,
but it has to have butt-loads of storeage, cuz I like my MP3's at 320Kbps.
DK
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