iTunes 5

16 Responses to “iTunes 5”

1. kcidx Says:
   September 22nd, 2005 at 6:59 am

   Hmm…burning discs. What a quaint notion.

   I may have to try it out here one of these days, just for nostalgias sake.

2. endub Says:
   September 22nd, 2005 at 8:20 am

   I think I’ll be burning discs until I have a car stereo that I can hook the iPod to. And by that I imply integration, where the stereo can truly control and exploit the greatness that is iPod.

   And actually, I burn audio CDs all the time at work to send radio reels to prospective clients.

3. kcidx Says:
   September 22nd, 2005 at 12:49 pm

   I’m fully happy with my radio adapter.

   Enjoy your CD’s grandpa.

4. endub Says:
   September 22nd, 2005 at 5:44 pm

   FM modulator?

5. kcidx Says:
   September 22nd, 2005 at 7:45 pm

   Yeah…it works great. Better than CD’s anyway.

6. endub Says:
   September 23rd, 2005 at 9:12 am

   what kind is it? I’ve yet to find one that doesn’t sound like shit.

7. kcidx Says:
   September 23rd, 2005 at 10:07 am

   http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=12-2055

8. endub Says:
   September 23rd, 2005 at 2:42 pm

   very interesting…very interesting indeed.

   I had an iTrip, but found it should have been called iSuck.

9. kcidx Says:
   September 23rd, 2005 at 9:48 pm

   The itrip sucks. If only for the fact that you can’t shuffle the entire ipod without hitting the frequence change tracks that jump you to a different station. But I’ve had very little little trouble with the modulator I have. Occasionally, when you drive a long way…you’ll move into an area where the frequency you were previously tuned to now has a real station on it, in which case you have to readjust….but such is life.

10. endub Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 12:22 pm

    FM modulators take me back…I used to run one in my 83 Tercel 4wd to get my wicked vintage Discman to play through the stereo. I wish I could remember the model number of that thing…it was way old, like 1987. Metal case and everything. I remember reading a review of it on an audiophile site a couple of years ago saying that it is one of the finest sounding CD players ever built. Not that I could ever tell in the car, running it through an FM modulator, into my Clarion cassette deck, into a hodgepodge of homemade speaker boxes and home stereo speakers….

11. K@ Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 4:01 pm

    Wait, this http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=12-2055 works for connecting an iPod to a car stereo? Please let me know if I’m misunderstanding this, because I just found a new excuse to take a roadtrip (it’s getting pretty difficult these days with the gas prices…)

12. endub Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 4:52 pm

    you are correct. That device transmits the iPod’s signal to one of several FM frequencies. You then tune your car radio to one of those frequencies that does not have anything on it, and voila, your iPod plays through your radio.

13. willpie Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 8:54 am

    My wife had an iTrip. It sucked, then it broke. Neat. Then we found a device (at TJ Maxx, of all places) that plugs into your cigarette lighter, holds your ipod in place, and gives you a choice of about 6 FM frequencies (admittedly, this is pretty weak in comparison to the itrip’s barrage of frequencies, but it’s all we’ve needed so far in the most densely populated state in the union. So I reckon it’s good for most purposes). Perhaps the neatest thing about it is that, by virtue of being cigarette lighter-powered, it not only doesn’t drain your iPod’s battery, it actually charges it up whilst you travel. Good times.

14. willpie Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 8:59 am

    http://www.kensington.com/html/5675.html
    is similar to what I’m talking about, but much less… uhhh… generic. And missing the clamp thingy that holds the ipod in place so you’re not trying to hold it in your lap or something.
    Alas, the one Kate has is far too generic for me to find it online right now, but I’ll keep my eyes peeled.

15. willpie Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 9:02 am

    Similar to this, but I swear it has more than four frequencies.
    http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Wireless-AV-manufacturers/p/2000000003844/3000000149681/1001134836.htm
    Anyway, you get the idea.

16. endub Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 10:07 am

    damnit will, could you please just post a picture of the acutal product instead of these representative products?!

    

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