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My Tips for Beginners
1) Buy a head unit with aux input. don't use tape adapters or fm modulators, however one of those cd changer bus adapters is a good idea, I can't find anything for M-BUS (so if you find one tell me before I spend $300 on a new deck with aux input)
2) Don't use ethernet to transfer files, if its 10baseT it will take about a half hour to copy 10gigs over. My solution is to buy 2 removable hard drive bays they are like $10ea, so then your hard drive is in a handy caddy, therefore you can transfer files faster, take it to your friends house and load up all his mp3s, it takes the place of a cd carouselle like cd changers have. Then you don't have to buy 100' of cat5 UTP ethernet cable which is expensive around here, I recoverd 50' from an old project.
3) Don't wire your mp3car into your amp thats just pure cheezecore. If you wire it into your deck with aux input then you get master volume control by your head unit, you get fading control over your outputs, eq stuff if your deck has it, and its a better integration, becasue then you don't need stupid buttons and switches to turn your mp3car input on and off. (you still need an irman or keypad to interface with the computer for song selection)
So all and all an mp3car's whole essence is to replace a cd changer. The best way to approch the project is to make as seamless and cost efficient as possible. My approach takes this idea and embraces it. With my LCD+IRMAN that reproduces an older cd changer type interface. My Hd Caddy reproduces a cd changer cd caddy, and my power and inputs are exactly the same as if I had a cd changer.
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