hogmaw Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I need to get a new car radio and I noticed that a lot of them have usb connections or ipod connections as standard. It makes a lot more sense to have all my music on one player which I can just plug in to the headunit, like some kind of portable hard drive or something, rather than have 1000s of CDs all over the place, but I don't want anything to do with apple and ipod etc. Are there any worthy alternatives out there? I prefer WAV to MP3 so high memory would be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan3579 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I would just buy a high capacity memory stick and whack that in the usb port. Tis what I do. Alternatley sony mp3 players are a good alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 WAV? Surely you mean WMA. Anyway, I got a Pioneer headunit with a USB tail and have all my music on a 16gb memory card. That's the way I would go if its just for listening to in the car. I just sync the memory stick with Media Player and it updates it with any new music (I have it set to sync anything with a 4 or 5 star rating). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I like Cowon stuff. User interface on them used to be a bit clunky sometimes but they're pretty good now. They pride themselves on audio quality. http://www.cowonglobal.com/ The iAudio 9 is really nice small and compact, depends what you're after. There's always http://anythingbutipod.com/ for reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 You can get all manner of head units with SD card slots and usb holes, thats what Id do if youve got Applephobia. As for alternaitve players before I saw the light I had a Cowon player, was top quality, saw it on the gadget show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Yes memory stick sounds like a good idea, I will investigate. Animal yes I save my sounds as uncompressed wavs, wma is something similar but different for Windows users I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Animal yes I save my sounds as uncompressed wavs Jesus they must be big then. Why not use FLAC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Check Archos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Jesus they must be big then. Why not use FLAC? Most songs are about 50mb each on average, and the size of the folder holding them is presently 40gb. I have to use wavs as some of the songs are or will be used as masters and it's a pita having duplicate sets of the same songs as MP3 and WAV. That FLAC looks interesting, I will look into that thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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