Anyone else use computer and Mp3 for a car radio?

[Armstead]

I live in a radio swamp, combination of bad signals and bad stations.

But about a year ago I finally found relief, by taping stuff and listening to it as a car radio. At first I made cassette tapes. Now I put mp3s and plug in my IPAQ PDA or Mp3 player.


I used to listen to ieAmerica a lot. Now it's Air America, BBC and Radio Australia.

Driving around with Randi Rhodes almost gives one the illusion that there actually are good radio stations to listen to.

Just wondering how many others do this.

[noahmijo]

1. Yup I kind of do that too

I put MP3's of music and audiobits of Stern, Franken, Daily Show, and Bush parodies into my iPod mini to make myself laugh between classes and during the long commut to school.

While driving I hook the iPod mini up to the iTrip which lets me listen to my mp3's through my stereo.

All I get here in Tucson is right wing talk radio, no Stern, no Air America, I think when I can afford it I'm gonna get Sirius so I can listen to Air America on the way to work (when I get a job after graduation)

[Armstead]

2. i Trip?

Wazzat?

[noahmijo]

3. I'll tell ya m'man

You hook it up to your iPod or iPod mini, and on your playlist you select an FM station that is not in use say like 88.7 or something like that.

The iTrip cuts into that station with its own signal which your mp3's on your iPod may be heard on.

It's friggin sweet I love it, allows you to carry thousands of songs without ever having to change a cd.

Sometimes the signal can get static-like if you're close to a downtown area or freeway, but overall sound is quality.

It's a very small device about the size of a lipstick tube......not that I know about lipstick tubes.....what are you looking at! okay man I'm leavin!

:)

[Armstead]

4. Oh. I've got something like that.

Not i Trip but another brand of mini transmitter.

They're great for using in the house too. You can listen to the computer radio from a protable radio anywhere in the house or backyard.

[ikojo]

5. How do you download Air America shows? n/t

[Armstead]

7. You can download them here

http://www.airamericaplace.com/

Can also get otehr programs at white rose society

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/

You can also record direct with audio recording software, when you're not at the computer, for listening later. Replay Radio, Total Recorder are good commercial programs for that. Also freeware resorders are available.

You can also record into a cassette directly.

[gmoney]

6. I love my MP3 CD player in my car

The Kenwood KDC-MP222 plays regular CDs, but also CDs of MP3 files, so you can get about 10 or 12 hours of music on the CD, or many hours of Air America downloaded from AirAmericaPlace.com ...get a whole week's worth of O'Franken and Majority Report on one CD, with plenty of room for music if you want.

(You can put many artist's entire catalogs on one MP3 CD, so if the CD gets lost, scratched or whatever, there's no problem... you're out the 25-cent blank and a few minutes with iTunes.)

It's really outstanding... Of course it has FM/AM, it's also Sirius ready, or you can put an aux input for your iPod, and I got mine for less than $200 installed. Check it out!