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Old February 29th 04, 06:46 PM posted to uk.media.radio.bbc-r4,uk.rec.audio.car
Paul Warnes
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Default Listening to mp3 recordings of radio progs in the car - Advice wanted

I've owned one of those wireless transmitters for use with my Creative
Jukebox 3 & it was utter ****e. The signal would fade & boost as you moved
to changed gear, it would be affected by someone sitting in the passenger
seat & generally was not a lot of cop. I threw it away in the end & got a
cable wired into my 6000 series CD tuner. So my advice would be DONT get an
FM transmitter.

For £100 & less I would go down the CD based MP3 player route. I did own a
Diamond Riovolt (can't remember the model but it had an inline remote & was
the earlier model before the introduction of the 3 model range) which would
have done the trick for you - it could be set to resume playback at the
point at which it was stopped but I'm 99% sure you can't buy Diamond
products easily anyymore due to the parent company (Sonic Blue) going a bit
pear shaped. However, I've just done a search on Ebay & this is what I've
found:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tegory=15 054

This is exactly what you want! It's the newer version of the one I owned
and has got the inline remote with it, which is very handy indeed.

Failing that you've always got Argoos. There's 3 (2 Goodmans & a Philips)
showing on their site so you could always try them out & take them back if
they don't suit.

Hope that's given you some help :-)

Paul.





"David White" wrote in message
...
I have built up a collection of Radio 4 and Radio 7 programmes on my PC
which are stored as mp3 files. I wish to listen to these in my car.
Currently I record them onto audio cassette and then play these in the car
but I wish to move to a system which does not use cassette.

Can anyone recommend a solution?

I am looking at spending under £100 and am thinking about using either an
mp3 compatible CD walkman or an mp3 player with either a cassette adapter

or
a wireless FM adapter. I would like to power a player from my cigarette
lighter.

A major requirement is that the player 'remembers' where it was in a
recording between car journeys in the same way a cassette does. I do not
want to have to listen / fast forward through a 30 minute programme to

find
the point where I left off listening.

TIA

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David White
Somerset, UK
www.whitezoo.com