RE: TI-H: empeg player
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RE: TI-H: empeg player
Do you have a page or any documentation about building this? I would be
really interested in seeing that. Personally this is the best discussion I
have seen since being on this list. I could care less that it has little to
nothing to do with TI Calcs.
Gearry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Dezur
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 12:12 AM
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: 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
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> 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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