[techtalk] mp3 car player & cd changer unilink cabling

affreca at kugar.org affreca at kugar.org
Sun Apr 30 18:38:23 EST 2000


My plan is to use a discman like machine that reads mp3's from cd's.
They're made by i-jam (ijamworld.com or from tigerdirect).  They're cheap
at $169, though on back order.  And connect it to the speakers with one of
those tape-deck adapters.
-kel

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Shelly L. Hokanson wrote:

> i posted this to a similar question on grrltalk earlier today -
> 
> about the mp3 machine - a couple of options to check out: maximum pc
> magazine did up an article on how to make a mp3 machine suitable for
> mounting in a car. their choice of parts was thru the roof in terms of parts
> ($$$), but it's linux based and will give you lots of ideas as to other
> parts that are less expensive! i believe they even designed the database
> that it uses. here's a link to it on the web:
> http://www.maximumpc.com/route66/
> 
> also, i've been able to personally test out a tiny little barebones machine
> called a "book pc" at work. it's integrated-everything but comes with linux
> drivers (as well as all the other major OS's) - includes sound, video, 56k,
> fast ethernet, tv-out, cd or dvd, and floppy. you add your hdd, cpu, and
> memory. the one we tested used a ppga based socket 370 celeron chip - i'm
> not sure what other options they offer. they're based on PC100 mainboards
> and distributed by lots of companies (i've seen these mainboards in compaq
> machines - they're not exactly high performance but they get the job done).
> one place to get more info (though their web site is awful - broken english
> and loads horribly slow) is www.pcchips.com. they list book pc's and "note
> pc's" with chipsets other than the i810 but i can't get the pages to load to
> give you more details! the other site that has more info (much cleaner and
> easy to load but only lists the celeron based book pc) is
> http://www.altonpc.com/product/bookpc/sysbb10cb2.shtml
> 
> they're quite small machines and probably more than suitable for an mp3
> machine. i believe they cost around $175 without mem, cpu, and hdd.
> 
> i hope that helps!
> 
> shelly
> 
> techchron.com beta:
> http://members.home.net/guppy3/techchron/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TeknoDragon" <andross at ghettobox.dhs.org>
> To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:39 PM
> Subject: [techtalk] mp3 car player & cd changer unilink cabling
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi, my wife and I are planning on buying a car soon (see social list), and
> > so I'm starting to look into building an mp3 player. The only desirable
> > prebuilt system that I can see for this is the empeg player ($1100+
> > www.empeg.com). so....
> >
> > I'd like to be able to build one myself so that I can save money (but
> > maybe have to sacrifice trunk space) take mp3 cd's that we burn and store
> > a lot on its hard drive. Since we allready have a few cpu's (an amd 586
> > and a P166) and lots of ram lying around we'd really be looking for a
> > tiny motherboard and an equally tiny case. There's a few good looking
> > power supplies listed on mp3car.com and a lot of stories (most windoze tho
> > ;-/).
> >
> > For hardware requirements I'm looking at:
> > 16 bit audio
> > have sb16 and an ensoniq pci, but onboard saves space
> > two 3.5 bays and one to two 5.25 bays
> > a multidisc changer would be nice, but most need SCSI
> > linux drivers for disc changer?
> > ethernet
> > probably the simplest way to transfer to a home computer
> > appletalk would be the best option for its automation
> > are there any appletalk (AFS) clients for windoze?
> > will need to operate with a pc occasionally
> > swappable (not necessarily hotswap) power supply
> > might have to hack one
> > small footprint
> > will probably be in the back of a hatchback, in the
> > cdchanger space or in some other semi-out of the way place
> > * interface with cdchanger unilink power, control, ground calbe
> > is there some piece of hardware that will interface with
> > this?
> >
> > For the software I'm deffinately considering a
> > modified route66 suite (http://elmer.imaginemedia.com/route66/)
> > to accompany whatever unilink solution can be found, and to facillitate
> > intelligent managing of a cd-changer library (as pnp as i can make
> > it) possibly including caching of entire songs on the hd for playlists
> > that span several discs
> >
> > Getting all of this information to the front of the car might require a
> > separate lcd, but I'd like to see how much I can get in the unilink
> > control interface...
> >
> >
> > this sort of thing would be a great kit to produce for mp3/linux
> > enthusiests... I'm suprised noone's tried it yet. Any comments and
> > suggestions are welcome!
> >
> >
> > -karl
> >
> >
> >
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