Subj : I still have some spindles I never used
To   : Bob Roberts
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 19:36:00

Hello Bob!

** On Sunday 03.01.21 - 15:23, Bob Roberts wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> ..I could only use those in the car's MP3/WMA/AUDIO
 AA>> player..

 BR> Those were the best.  When I got a CD player in my car that could play a
 BR> data disc of MP3s, I would burn big collections, organized by folder, and
 BR> be able to play almost anything in the car.

When I realized that I could build a rather large selection of  
music on an MP3 disc, I rarely needed to switch discs.

I could just pick a folder I wanted and play sequentially from  
there, or switch to RANDom and have a pleasant surprise.


 BR> Later we had a car with a hard drive in it somewhere, you could insert a
 BR> Music disc and it would "rip" it to the internal hard drive.  It was too
 BR> slow to rip thou and we never really used it.

I have never heard of a car maker offering onboard hdd for music  
purposes.


 BR> The current car doesn't even have a CD player.  It just has
 BR> Bluetooth so you can stream off your phone to the stereo...
 BR> plus Car Play / Android Audio.

Before acquiring a vehicle that had a decent MP3-capable player,  
I tried the FM-transmitter method.  It wasn't bad for podcasts,  
but it was very poor quality for music.  Some engine noise/static  
was always present.

Later, I found an audio port in the center console storage unit  
to which I could feed the audio-out from my iPod that was plugged  
and powered by the cigarette lighter. Switching the radio to AUX- 
IN produced very nice results.

Before acquiring the said same vehicle above, a previous vehicle  
just had a CD-player, but music always skipped every time I made  
a left turn.  Arghhhhh!  It was rectified at the next service  
call, but I had to live with it for months prior.
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  ../|ug

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