MP3 player with physical buttons?
Discussion
No am not an ancient luddite, I can use a phone like anyone else.
In the car however, I use an ancient Creative Zen Vision. What I like about it is that it has a physical unlock switch and buttons to skip to the next track, which I can feel. I can therefore do this whilst driving without looking at it, and keep looking at the road. To do this on my phone would mean looking at it to unlock it and then looking again to find the skip key, by which time I've crashed into the car infront and may rightly go to prison.
The Zen is 10 years old and will surely break soon, but what is there that can replace it?
Can you still get music players with buttons rather than touchscreens? One that does Hi Res audio would be nice but not essential.
My cars have older stereos with cabled line in only options and I'm not changing them, a thing plugged into them is just fine.
In the car however, I use an ancient Creative Zen Vision. What I like about it is that it has a physical unlock switch and buttons to skip to the next track, which I can feel. I can therefore do this whilst driving without looking at it, and keep looking at the road. To do this on my phone would mean looking at it to unlock it and then looking again to find the skip key, by which time I've crashed into the car infront and may rightly go to prison.
The Zen is 10 years old and will surely break soon, but what is there that can replace it?
Can you still get music players with buttons rather than touchscreens? One that does Hi Res audio would be nice but not essential.
My cars have older stereos with cabled line in only options and I'm not changing them, a thing plugged into them is just fine.
If your car has a CD changer, or the facility to have one as an option, how about one of those devices that emulates a CD changer and has a USB input? Dension, Mobridge, etc.
I fitted a Dension to my old E61, and have now fitted it to my Boxster. It uses the steering wheel controls, and displays track info on the head unit or dash display. I have all my music on a USB stick.
The Dension unit is expensive if bought new. I got mine secondhand on eBay for about £100.
I fitted a Dension to my old E61, and have now fitted it to my Boxster. It uses the steering wheel controls, and displays track info on the head unit or dash display. I have all my music on a USB stick.
The Dension unit is expensive if bought new. I got mine secondhand on eBay for about £100.
I use an older version of this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Stereo-Bluetooth-Hea...
linked to my phone, and feeding the aux-in of the headunit. Problem is, the display and the buttons are a little too small. And you can only skip tracks within the current album.
When I was doing mega miles, I was using a 5th generation ipod nano. This was the best set up as the spoken menus plus the physical buttons meant you did not have to look at it at all. Maybe you could pick up an old one of those? Wire it to power (as the battery will be shot by now)...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Stereo-Bluetooth-Hea...
linked to my phone, and feeding the aux-in of the headunit. Problem is, the display and the buttons are a little too small. And you can only skip tracks within the current album.
When I was doing mega miles, I was using a 5th generation ipod nano. This was the best set up as the spoken menus plus the physical buttons meant you did not have to look at it at all. Maybe you could pick up an old one of those? Wire it to power (as the battery will be shot by now)...
Look up Sandisk Clip , there'll be something in their range that suits.
Or you can get an aux cable with an inline remote and just use your phone.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Griffin-Technology-Auxili...
Or you can get an aux cable with an inline remote and just use your phone.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Griffin-Technology-Auxili...
Edited by Bellatrix on Tuesday 3rd January 16:12
Gassing Station | In-Car Electronics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff