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Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #25 –
I haven't read all the answers above, but maybe you could get a Sony PSP. It's very portable and AFAIK you can play not only Flac files, but also a lot of other formats. It supports SD cards which are very cheap nowadays.

Regards!

Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #26 –
Quote from: atled on
I haven't read all the answers above, but maybe you could get a Sony PSP. It's very portable and AFAIK you can play not only Flac files, but also a lot of other formats. It supports SD cards which are very cheap nowadays.

Regards!


you should point out which hack it takes for a PSP to play FLAC as it doesn't do it out of the box.

Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #27 –
Quote from: srunni on
What would be really interesting is a system in the vehicle with a large hard drive, and when you drive up to your home, it wirelessly connects to your home network and updates its library to match that on your computer. In the long run, of course, a cellular connection in the vehicle that's capable of streaming music from your home computer over the internet would be even better. Same for PMPs - it would eliminate all the hard drive headaches. You would just need a small flash memory module that holds the OS, along with a cellular wireless chip to stream the audio. However, all this would require innovation on the part of the mobile telecom companies, and I have absolutely no faith in them


people have rolled their own like that.  try http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/  or mp3car.com

here's an older example (as i don't have time right now to do a proper search)

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/software-s...-wifi-sffs.html
 

Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #28 –
Quote from: n3tfury on
Quote from: srunni on

What would be really interesting is a system in the vehicle with a large hard drive, and when you drive up to your home, it wirelessly connects to your home network and updates its library to match that on your computer. In the long run, of course, a cellular connection in the vehicle that's capable of streaming music from your home computer over the internet would be even better. Same for PMPs - it would eliminate all the hard drive headaches. You would just need a small flash memory module that holds the OS, along with a cellular wireless chip to stream the audio. However, all this would require innovation on the part of the mobile telecom companies, and I have absolutely no faith in them


people have rolled their own like that.  try http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/  or mp3car.com

here's an older example (as i don't have time right now to do a proper search)

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/software-s...-wifi-sffs.html

That's pretty cool, I'll have to check out the stuff on those sites. It wouldn't be too hard to do the wireless sync thing with your car, as that's only dependent on the end user, but streaming over a cell phone connection would run up HUGE charges, not to mention the fact that lossless streaming would be impossible (at least in the US). I don't think even 3G would be able to stream a FLAC file in realtime, hence the need for mobile telecoms to upgrade their networks.

Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #29 –
Assuming negligible overhead, to stream an average 850kbps compressed FLAC file in realtime would take closer to a 7G connection.

Easiest unit for FLAC in a car?

Reply #30 –
the easiest way WOULD be to replace your HU with one that has an aux input on it and get a Cowon or mod your iPod for FLAC.

Quote from: srunni on
That's pretty cool, I'll have to check out the stuff on those sites. It wouldn't be too hard to do the wireless sync thing with your car, as that's only dependent on the end user, but streaming over a cell phone connection would run up HUGE charges, not to mention the fact that lossless streaming would be impossible (at least in the US). I don't think even 3G would be able to stream a FLAC file in realtime, hence the need for mobile telecoms to upgrade their networks.


yeah, streaming over a phone isn't a good solution, imo, but a lot of other good ideas at that site