Thread: How to move MP3s from compukers to cars?

On the flip-side though, if you have a big enough HD in your MP3 player in the first place, you rarely have to upload new ones.

Yep...I have to agree here. Why even build an mp3 player with less than 10gig HD in the first play.

I would suggest a hard drive in addition to CD-R support. Per the other post, I agree that it should be at least 6 to 10 gigs. I also think that it should be user upgradeable (what happens if I want to put a 30 gig laptop drive in and I purchased the unit with no installed drive to save on initial costs?) Maybe offer the unit with various size Laptop HDs or no HD at all?

For upgradeability and song downloads it would have to be an interface that was small, fast and user friendly. I too would prefer 10/100 ethernet, but not everyone has a LAN at home. A USB plug would be good except for the slow speed (how many people want to transfer 4 gigs over USB? - got a few hours?) The CD-R route with the option to add songs - maybe even rip MP3's right from an audio CD to the local drive. You could also set up a "maintenance mode" where, through the front panel, a user could put in a CD with a bios upgrade or just a CD-R full of MP3's, and do the transfer. Or you could just pull out the HD and drop it in your home PC for a quick transfer.

well, I'm gonna use RealJukeBox purely for the fact that if someone has a CD that they want to listen to in my car, all they have to do is pop it in the DVD drive and RJB automatically records the entire cd to MP3 format (and names it correctly if you are connected to the internet).

Im just networking the computers. That way i just plug it into the car and i can send all the songs to the mp3car from inside the house. Also, my custom case is smaller by doing it that way since i dont need to include a cd-rom or floppy drive.