changing choons
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firstly, sorry for the risible pun. if it helps, im not proud that its rapidly becoming my trademark.
so..to CD changers. Ive done a searchette and i cant find where-abouts the lead to plug in the multi-changing fellow lives. any clues gang? I'm looking under the bonnet. am i warm? warmer? tepid?
moreover, do i have to have a Becker/ Porsche unit? they seem like a lot of money to me, even from ebay. does anyone know of any others that are compatible? surely they all have the same gubbins/ mice on a wheel inside? for instance, i have a Phillips changer from a Subaru a few years back. is there any reason that shouldn't work? the plug that goes into that is the round type, not bing able to locate the lead on the car, I'm not sure if that would do the job...? no? dont tell me: im not that lucky. hell, i just cant win for losing.
or... should i just spend the money on an ipod or the like and run that in to the stereo by erm..smoke and mirrors or however that works? I'm pretty sure the 150-500 quid i see these changers kicking about for will buy an ipod-esque piece of kit, and surely it must be easy-ish to connect? again, clues gang? please? from what i understand,these things will almost certainly hold more than 6 cds, and wont take up 98% of my boot.
thanks folks
so..to CD changers. Ive done a searchette and i cant find where-abouts the lead to plug in the multi-changing fellow lives. any clues gang? I'm looking under the bonnet. am i warm? warmer? tepid?
moreover, do i have to have a Becker/ Porsche unit? they seem like a lot of money to me, even from ebay. does anyone know of any others that are compatible? surely they all have the same gubbins/ mice on a wheel inside? for instance, i have a Phillips changer from a Subaru a few years back. is there any reason that shouldn't work? the plug that goes into that is the round type, not bing able to locate the lead on the car, I'm not sure if that would do the job...? no? dont tell me: im not that lucky. hell, i just cant win for losing.
or... should i just spend the money on an ipod or the like and run that in to the stereo by erm..smoke and mirrors or however that works? I'm pretty sure the 150-500 quid i see these changers kicking about for will buy an ipod-esque piece of kit, and surely it must be easy-ish to connect? again, clues gang? please? from what i understand,these things will almost certainly hold more than 6 cds, and wont take up 98% of my boot.
thanks folks
nervous said:
yeah, its the cdr22 or something (car and manual are miles away in the car park, sorry). its the single cd, flip down front one. does this help?
Nervy,
I've got the same head unit as you and fitted my ipod in using the Denison Ice Link cable (£99). It's dead easy to fit and means you don't have to piss around with CDs as you'll have a couple of thousand tracks at your disposal.
Fitting it: purchase a pair of metal nail files for about £3 from boots and use them in the slots on the front of the unit. Slide the unit out and then simply plug the Denison cbale straight into the back of teh unit (it's a porsche specific one so the plug is designed for the Becker).
Have a quick tidy up of the wires and then you can either fit the ipod bracket to the dash or just leave it in the little cubby hole under the cd holder.
Cds are soooooo 2000.
nervous said:
thats great, thanks C2!
so, is there a part number for the cable? im hoping i can go and have a dig around and buy one cheaper elsewhere....well, its always worth a go huh?
thanks again
Which ipod would you be using? (they come with different adaptors on)
This is where I bought mine by the way:
www.cooltopia.com/product.php?xProd=2099&xSec=554
>> Edited by Carrera2 on Wednesday 9th November 10:27
ipod nano - i've got the 2Gb one but they also do a 4Gb one.
that's a lot of songs, it's tiny, get a silicon case for it from ebay for £6 and it doesn't get scratched, it's really easy to use and the battery lasts for AGES.
i have mine rigged up to the Alpine headunit in my car using the Alpine ipod interface and it's great, much better than cd's.
Plus i use it as a walkman in the gym. And on flights.
that's a lot of songs, it's tiny, get a silicon case for it from ebay for £6 and it doesn't get scratched, it's really easy to use and the battery lasts for AGES.
i have mine rigged up to the Alpine headunit in my car using the Alpine ipod interface and it's great, much better than cd's.
Plus i use it as a walkman in the gym. And on flights.
VS - careful about the 'doesn't get scratched' claim WRT the Nano. My Nano is scratched to buggery, and I baby the damn thing. There's even a bunch of assholes doing a class action lawsuit over this.
And to avoid the Apple vs PC religious wars, I will state that I am a complete Apple freak, have well north of £15k worth of personal Apple machines, 5 iPods and am invested in them as well. So I don't tend to slag off their products.
However the Nano in particular is cosmetically fragile.
If you can't get a satisfactory integrated solution to control a portable MP3 player (regardless of brand) then I'd lean towards getting a big sod-off sized one (i.e. the hard-disk models, not the Nano or Shuffle), fill it with your entire collection and either use shuffle or big playlists. The danger time pissing about with gadget controls whilst holding a 90 mph oversteer slide round a traffic-light infested roundabout can, thus, be limited somewhat.
Another alternative is to mount a pringles can on the top of your car and rig it through some custom code on an old laptop to connect to an internet radio station, which could be one you set up from your home network. Would probably be just about workable in town but not so hot for long journeys.
Another option (not sure if it's actually been implemented by anyone yet) is the good old MP3 CD concept but on DVD. If you can fill a recordable DVD with MP3s, and your head unit plays data DVDs then you can record a couple of DVD discs and get as many tunes as a lower sized HD unit, and a damn sight less stealable than an iPod hanging around in your car.
I'd tell you the crazzee system I'd installed, but I couldn't think of anything worth bothering with given the engine behind my back
And to avoid the Apple vs PC religious wars, I will state that I am a complete Apple freak, have well north of £15k worth of personal Apple machines, 5 iPods and am invested in them as well. So I don't tend to slag off their products.
However the Nano in particular is cosmetically fragile.
If you can't get a satisfactory integrated solution to control a portable MP3 player (regardless of brand) then I'd lean towards getting a big sod-off sized one (i.e. the hard-disk models, not the Nano or Shuffle), fill it with your entire collection and either use shuffle or big playlists. The danger time pissing about with gadget controls whilst holding a 90 mph oversteer slide round a traffic-light infested roundabout can, thus, be limited somewhat.
Another alternative is to mount a pringles can on the top of your car and rig it through some custom code on an old laptop to connect to an internet radio station, which could be one you set up from your home network. Would probably be just about workable in town but not so hot for long journeys.
Another option (not sure if it's actually been implemented by anyone yet) is the good old MP3 CD concept but on DVD. If you can fill a recordable DVD with MP3s, and your head unit plays data DVDs then you can record a couple of DVD discs and get as many tunes as a lower sized HD unit, and a damn sight less stealable than an iPod hanging around in your car.
I'd tell you the crazzee system I'd installed, but I couldn't think of anything worth bothering with given the engine behind my back
cyberface said:
VS - careful about the 'doesn't get scratched' claim WRT the Nano. My Nano is scratched to buggery, and I baby the damn thing. There's even a bunch of assholes doing a class action lawsuit over this.
And to avoid the Apple vs PC religious wars, I will state that I am a complete Apple freak, have well north of £15k worth of personal Apple machines, 5 iPods and am invested in them as well. So I don't tend to slag off their products.
However the Nano in particular is cosmetically fragile.
If you can't get a satisfactory integrated solution to control a portable MP3 player (regardless of brand) then I'd lean towards getting a big sod-off sized one (i.e. the hard-disk models, not the Nano or Shuffle), fill it with your entire collection and either use shuffle or big playlists. The danger time pissing about with gadget controls whilst holding a 90 mph oversteer slide round a traffic-light infested roundabout can, thus, be limited somewhat.
Another alternative is to mount a pringles can on the top of your car and rig it through some custom code on an old laptop to connect to an internet radio station, which could be one you set up from your home network. Would probably be just about workable in town but not so hot for long journeys.
Another option (not sure if it's actually been implemented by anyone yet) is the good old MP3 CD concept but on DVD. If you can fill a recordable DVD with MP3s, and your head unit plays data DVDs then you can record a couple of DVD discs and get as many tunes as a lower sized HD unit, and a damn sight less stealable than an iPod hanging around in your car.
I'd tell you the crazzee system I'd installed, but I couldn't think of anything worth bothering with given the engine behind my back
now thats what i call a POST!!
thanks CFace, i greatly appreciated that ps however, you seem to have forgotten to call me bent, and apparently its a pre-requistite around my posts. please bear this in mind in future. for a start, if my missus starts to think im not bent ill have to do it with her, and thats the last thing id want (not least of all because of the noise she makes when eating a boiled egg
pps five?!! gis an ipod mister!
nervous said:
ps however, you seem to have forgotten to call me bent, and apparently its a pre-requistite around my posts. please bear this in mind in future. for a start, if my missus starts to think im not bent ill have to do it with her, and thats the last thing id want (not least of all because of the noise she makes when eating a boiled egg
Sorry mate, that's not cricket. I'm the one currently off my face and struggling to concatenate various phrases the voices are shouting at me into something remotely approximating semantic coherence - and you throw curveballs like this?
Singing to yourself is a good option, unless you like acid house and can't program your larynx like a TB-303. I think I'd better be off to bed...
i reckon you've got one of them from that batch...
i'm not an apple freak, never owned anything apple before, and use my nano everyday at the gym and everyday in my car, and the screen's fine.
besides which you can get a screen protector for pennies... (which i don't have and don't appear to need)
i'm not an apple freak, never owned anything apple before, and use my nano everyday at the gym and everyday in my car, and the screen's fine.
besides which you can get a screen protector for pennies... (which i don't have and don't appear to need)
cyberface said:
Sorry mate, that's not cricket. I'm the one currently off my face and struggling to concatenate various phrases the voices are shouting at me into something remotely approximating semantic coherence - and you throw curveballs like this?
Singing to yourself is a good option, unless you like acid house and can't program your larynx like a TB-303. I think I'd better be off to bed...
a good point, well made. i love a good concatenate, me.
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